• flan [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Presidential elections should be decided the old fashioned way: shooting matches between warlords to determine who has the mandate of heaven.

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    Imagine being some dnc dipshit paid six or seven figures, and this unbelievably plain outcome didn’t occur to you

    Still getting paid more than me despite being demonstrably dumber and picking the wrong fucking choice every time

    Also I live in Texas, wasn’t voting for genocide Joe anyway

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    Like most people joke about a civil war, but I could genuinely see it happening. The white petite bourgeois is so fucking insane right now I could see them pushing for it. Remember the last civil war really was just as goofy from a material perspective, the northern libs really really didn’t want to abolish slavery, all they wanted was to renegotiate a new power sharing agreement between the northern ruling class and the southern. But the southerners were so fucking batshit insane anything other than 1000% southern interests was white genocide. It was only really the act of war that gave abolitionists actual power to force northerner whites to be descent human beings and abolish slavery. Like modern libs want so desperately for the conservatives to like tone down fascism by like 1 degree so they can keep the capitalism machine ticking over. Just look at how the dems are basically giving Republicans their dream crime against humanity on the border just so they can get them to pay for their other crimes against humanity. And yet the conservatives are still too insane to take a victory.

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      I don’t think the civil war was completely nonmaterial. The slaveholding south was genuinely scared of even the moderate abolitionism espoused by Lincoln who wanted western states to be free states. This would tip the scales in congress in favor of free states in time, allowing for the abolition of slavery by law. The slaveholding south saw their power eroding, which is why every compromise for new states was extremely contentious and why Kansas ended up in civil war in the lead up to the real civil war. So I don’t know how correct it is to say the south left for no reason, since Lincoln really did represent a threat to their interests (albeit an extremely moderate one)

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        I didn’t mean to imply non material or without reason, but the reaction to Lincolns election was way out of proportion to the potential limits that were to be put on slavery. The idea that without infinite growth slavery would be abolished is very much a unchallenged assumption of the, very deranged, slave holders themselves. The infinitely more likely possible outcome is slavery.being in someway limited to one of the previous demarcation lines, and then it literally never being abolished. The north had to be dragged kicking and screaming to abolition, and then the quick abandonment of reconstruction shows even that acceptance wacw grudging.

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    I like how it says threaten. Fuckin do it bitch, you know it would be the only thing to get people off the couch and into the streets again. As much as we talk shit about the electoral system, taking Joe Biden off is pretty much the thing that will tell everyone in Texas that Greg abbot is basically the president of Texas, and everyone hates that guy. No more democracy, not even the illusion.

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    pog pog pog

    give me a president/antipresident dynamic where the states are split in who they recognize. shatter the fabric of the nation lets-fucking-go

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    PSL winds up being the only party represented in every state ballot following a spate of tit-for-tat removals of Trump and Biden across the whole country
    PSL candidate receives protest votes from dems in each state Biden is excluded and vice versa
    PSL candidate accidentally wins Florida

    lol

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    On the one hand: Fucking how. HOW? How could you possibly do that in an even kind of legal way?

    On the other hand:

    My body is ready.

    Reality already became more ludicrous than fiction when the writers of Law and Order said they could not make an episode based around Trump’s uh -legal troubles- because it people would think it was too unrealistic.

    Please just let this farce of a country end, I am ready for it.

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      Law is just an abstract idea, someone has to enforce it. If Texas does this and nobody stops them then what is the law?

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        Hrm.

        The law would then be whatever the cops who idol worship the punisher without any understanding of the inherent irony of that deem it to be.

        So the law would thus be whatever the most violent and or ironic possible outcome possible outcome is to a situation is what will happen.

        Hooray!

        Yeah, it would be extremely funny if Putin ends up winning Ukraine because the US utterly implodes in formal civil war.

        My plan is to just keep listening to Year Zero on repeat, maybe that will erect a metaironic barrier around me that keeps me safe, like a high Luck stat or something.