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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

The 2024 US Presidential race officially starts Monday, what are your predictions for Iowa?

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The 2024 US Presidential race officially starts Monday, what are your predictions for Iowa?

return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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    I predict nothing good for the American people.

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      Instant death or continue the slow descent. I, of course, will be voting for slow descent but what the fuck ever. This country is fucked this planet is fucked let’s just get high and play video games while we still have electricity.

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        It’s the same argument against the death penalty: you can stop imprisonment/slow descent and turn it around. You can never come back from death/fascism.

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          To be fair, that’s not really true for fascism. It doesn’t usually end peacefully and almost never easily, but historically it certainly has come to an end in various places in various ways. I’m not saying this to say that it’s somehow okay, but rather that should it come to pass, people should not give up trying to thwart it.

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            I don’t know of any fascist countries that escaped fascism by themselves. They all had to be beaten. That’s what I was referring to in part, and the rest being that a fascist takeover is the death of the government and country. Whatever comes after Mayt not be recognizable from before.

            • Timwi@kbin.social
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              Hm, I think South Africa might be a contender. Apartheid was ended by a white prime minister and then Nelson Mandela was peacefully allowed to be elected.

            • Kellamity@sh.itjust.works
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              Spain did. Though only when Franco died of heart failure

              • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
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                Same with Portugal.

                But the ditador also had to basically become physically incapable before that happened but it was a different time than before. That being said idk if being a different time is better or not in that sense.

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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        Or we could have some standards and only vote for actual good candidates. If there aren’t any, don’t settle for the lesser evil, demand better!

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          Not settling for the lesser evil is how we ended up with Trump.

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            No, the downward slide of lesser evils is how we ended up with him.

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              That doesn’t change the fact that a shitload of people didn’t turn up to vote because they, like you said, didn’t want to settle. They didn’t like Clinton or Trump. So they just didn’t vote.

              And here we are.

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                False comparison. They didn’t show up to vote because they are apathetic. The ones who cared showed up and voted, just not for bad candidates. There’s other races than President.

                (As an aside, Secretary Clinton was a good candidate anyway.)

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                  https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/popular-vote-turnout-2016/index.html

                  It was a 20 year low, so yeah, id say 2016 is a good thing to bring up when claiming we should simply not vote for the lesser evil. And they were apathetic because we had absolute shit people to choose from.

    • 200ok@lemmy.world
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      OR America’s hat!

      • otp@sh.itjust.works
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        North America’s hat, the arctic ice cap?

        • 200ok@lemmy.world
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          “ice cap” 😂🙏

          I meant Canada but that was perfect

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            Canada doesn’t look like clothing though!

            America is Canada’s shorts. Florida’s the dong.

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              ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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    I predict that Europeans will look upon the drawn-out and comedic campaign with smug disdain and self-satisfaction… and proceed to explain away their own increased support for right-wing nationalism and fascism. One day, we will all wake up and realize that we dun goofed but it’s too late.

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      Hey, don’t forget about Canada!

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        Canadans are honorary Europeans

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          Honorary Europeans but also honorary Americans. Our labour rights are more in line with the US than with Europe.

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            But where does Canada stand on kinder surprise eggs?

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              Since we have a partially socialized healthcare system, there’s no concern about going broke due to choking on kinder eggs.

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        Our mainstream Conservative Party, the CPC is further left than the US’s democrats.

        The PPC which is harder right is a joke and Maxime Bernier, the leader, lost his seat last election.

        Canada’s not perfect but I don’t know what you’re on about.

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    More than one trump supporter will die in a snow drift.

    Trump will win Iowa, but lose the nomination to Haley (as his legal peril grows), who will lose to Biden.

    Trump supporters will react violently to the loss and eventual conviction of Trump in multiple spasms of bloodshed.

    They too will end up in prison, alongside J6 convicts.

    The rich still won’t be taxed, and the climate will continue to warm and destabilize.

    The sea will become too warm to support normal ocean currents like the gulf stream, destabilizing the entire food chain as aquaculture collapses.

    Someone will invent a new kind of food called a quantum chalupa, and it will be glorious.

    HP will increase prices for ink.

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      Someone will invent a new kind of food called a quantum chalupa, and it will be glorious

      Surely it’s commonly called a qualupa

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        only when measured in qualupa bits

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      It’s fucked up that this is the best case scenario

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      It’s made of people!!!

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    Trump will win the nomination. But he will have to campaign from prison for the general. And will lose.

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      He’ll win the nomination but the Supreme Court will say he’s a free man, for whatever bullshit reason.

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        Then Joe Biden can order Seal Team 6 to assassinate Trump…then the Supreme Court!

        Uno reverse.

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          • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
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            DarkBrandon is just Biden his time…

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          That would certainly be the most interesting timeline

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      I think there’s a good chance he won’t make it on enough state ballots to have a chance to win.

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        You only need 12 states

        https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/pqzria/all_you_need_is_12_the_fewest_number_of_states/

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          I don’t need to open this link to know he can’t win most of the most populous.

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          That’s far more likely to be a map for Biden’s win than Trump. It’s not a likely map, but it is more likely.

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    Kinda wishing I could just go into a coma for the next 11 months ngl

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      why not forever? /lh

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        Yeah don’t wake me up until after WWIII, but early enough that I can still witness the invention of warp drive and first contact with the Vulcans. #bozeman2063 hell yeah baby

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          Forever it is!

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    That it’ll remain a hellhole devoid of intelligent life

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    A shitshow

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    I predict nonsense

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      !remindme idk a couple of months?

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    Riots and mass hysteria, also extreme tax fraud

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      Dogs sleeping with cats!

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    Thanks for reminding me to set up some extra filters to block out all the hyperventilating yank headlines.

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      Haha I had already done so but I have added “presidential” to the list.

      If you’re looking for something that largely does the job: Trump Biden Presidential Electoral Caucus

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    The old demented dude is going to win

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      No, the old demented dude is going to lose

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        Not sure I get your joke. Or were you being serious.

        The joke is either way no matter who wins it will be an old demented dude.

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          You got the joke just fine. Just replace “wins” with “loses” in your own sentence.

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            I think you meant we are going to lose. Yes we are going to lose either way, but one of them is going to win.

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    NO NO NO NO NO

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    Trump will win. Trump will win. And every human on the planet not named Drumpf will lose.

    Edit: and animal

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