Who’s winning POTUS? Will it be called on election night or drawn out? Congress? Etc

You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments
7 points

My rational side wants to see Harris win, but the anarchist in me wants to see Trump win, just to see what would happen. Not living in the US, obviously.

Trump winning could be a disaster for the whole world since US is such a major player in basically everything, but my anarchist side does not listen.

permalink
report
reply
2 points

Would U.S.A. foreign policy be drastically affected by who becomes the president?
As a non-American, I think it’d have more impact on the people of the U.S.A and maybe immediate neighbours like Mexico.

permalink
report
parent
reply
10 points
*

I don’t know, to quote someone I read here: “The world shits when the US farts”

US electing an authoritarian might encourage authoritarians all around the world (even more)

permalink
report
parent
reply
-4 points

US electing an authoritarian might encourage authoritarians all around the world (even more)

That maybe a consequence but US foreign policy might improve or remain unchanged under Trump.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

What does Trump winning have to do with Anarchy?

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Same story we saw in 2016, Trump has no policy other than destroying American institutions and the status quo, so people get this sort of collapse fetish and pick him for that reason alone.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

They mean in the “chaos” sense, not the Lemmy-friendly sense.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

On the other hand, a severe degradation of federal institutions would by necessity promote community-based cooperation. Like in any other disaster, natural or otherwise.

Nobody wants to see it happen this way, but it might be the catalyst we get.

permalink
report
parent
reply
-1 points

They’ll both be disasters for the USA.

Trump will be a disaster because millions of Americans who are currently on the brink of poverty will sink into poverty under his policies, amplifying all kinds of social problems and civil unrest.

Harris will be a disaster because she will escalate unpopular military conflicts, overextending the military, further lessening the prestige of the US, and encouraging countries to de-dollarize.

The next four years are going to be rough. There’s no avoiding it.

permalink
report
parent
reply
10 points

You’re a piss poor anarchist if you want the the orange fascist to win

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

Anarchism is not chaos, which is what it seems like you think it means. Anarchism is the opposition to hierarchy and is thus directly opposed to fascism and therefore Trump. No anarchist wants to see Trump win because it means fascism has won.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Yep. Too many people think anarchy is throwing bricks at windows. It just means opposing hierarchy. Hoping a fascist wins is the literal opposite of that

permalink
report
parent
reply

Asklemmy

!asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Create post

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it’s welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Icon by @Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de

Community stats

  • 9.8K

    Monthly active users

  • 3.5K

    Posts

  • 73K

    Comments