The Happy Thread

[Ali C]

1 hour ago, monkeyseemonkeydo said:

Yes, but

 

They all are 😢

[JT!]

On 11/9/2024 at 6:05 AM, Ali C said:

It’s a sign that people have had enough of “wokeness”, it’s reassuring that there’s still some common sense left in the world.

We’ll have to see if there’s increased tariffs which I agree isn’t ideal but I think that’s better than having the democrats in control over there…their behaviour has been really concerning to me.

I don't think it had much to do with "wokeness". Honestly the democrats really didn't run on a platform of being woke, anti-gun, pro immigration, and everything else you can think about that's generally considered leftist issues or complains from the right. They knew they had those people in the bag and tried to go after the undecided voters by keeping it pretty centrist.

I personally voted for Harris, my first time voting as a citizen, democratic polices align with my beliefs and I'm probably always going to vote that way regardless of who is the front runner, but even if I wasn't, after swearing an oath to the constitution and democracy when I become a citizen there's no way I could vote for Trump. The next 4 years are going to be the biggest threat of a dictatorship in the US since it's inception. Although I think it's massively unlikely, the idea is still scary.

What behavior do you think is really concerning?

I'm honestly still in disbelief, I figured since Biden won somewhat comfortably in 2020, Trump should have only lost more voters in those 4 years rather than gain. I feel like I have to put it down to her simply been a women and America isn't ready for a female president yet, I guess I hope America is sexist rather than stupid. I'll admit to be out of touch with what the majority of the country want.

[Ali C]

I was honestly worried Harris and co would be the bigger dictator risk, they seem to really love controlling media, controlling debates, controlling questions etc, they also seemed really bad at taking criticism. Now this was more of a worry with Biden to be honest, I don’t know a huge deal about Harris but Biden definitely put me off the democrats quite a bit. I feel they’re quite similar to Justin Trudeau and he’d make a brilliant dictator.

Im a big believer in free speech and it makes me sad that in the UK we don’t have an automatic right to that. I believe free speech will be more protected with Trump and even though he’s still quite embarrassing at times I honestly think he and his cabinet will be better for democracy than Harris and co. Plus he wasn’t a dictator last time.