2024 U.S. Presidential and State election thread - I'm gonna... I'm gonna... VOOT!!! I'm VOOOOOTING!!!

Who are you voting for?

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ToroidalBoat said:
>not using #77AA00

(I think that color is closest.)
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Nah I think the correct shade is the slightly poop tinted one
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Actually I can't tell and I can't inspect the formatting on mobile
 
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LightDragonman1 said:
To think that this guy thinks that hacking by Russians caused the win, because he can't believe that most of the country wanted Trump.

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If anything, you should play to those fears of russian hackers. This is the 2020 moment for Kamala voters, and this is the best oportunity to get them on board with mandatory photo ID, proof of citizenship, paper ballots, and hand counting. Arguing with them about which election was rigged is counterproductive if you can't get them to agree to improve election security first.
 
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Lancers said:
It's already here man. At least in Tokyo, I've been seeing their metro ads, their books, I saw a niglet in one of their school uniforms, a jap woman in a hijab with her 3 kids, countless kebab shops ran by Turks, hallal-friendly vending machines by Akihabara, every other 7-Eleven, Lawsons and Family Mart has some foreign worker. I went to one of their huge metro station book shops by the US embassy (I was there to flip them off during the election but it was closed due to "terrorist threats") and I saw multiple magazines with Kang samurai in the cover, one had an illustration of a nigger in edo next to his jap wife. I went to get Dominoes today and who's manning the register than a beaner and on and on.

I don't know if they're gonna follow trends of the west, but if you ever planned to visit, I'd suggest doing it sooner rather than later, it's very cheap at the moment too.
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it's probably the worst in Tokyo, but once you get even slightly outside the touristy areas most of that is completely absent. Interestingly what I've noticed is the difference between ads directed at native Japanese vs. foreigners - most of the ones at the Japs contain nothing but Japanese people (perhaps with white-ish characteristics like paler skin), but you see more woke shit for the ones targeted at...well, everyone else. I think they're aware that the Japanese still have an acute ingroup/out group preference and that's (hopefully) unlikely to change rapidly.

In particular if you visit a medium to small-sized town without tourists, non-Japanese are almost completely non-existent. Very few people will speak English and there's very few signs in any other languages outside of the train stations. I'm not saying that it's not creeping in and it's certainly more noticeable in the biggest cities (Tokyo in particular), but Japan by and large has been remarkably resistant to foreign influence in this regard.

The one thing you're right on the money with is that there's a fuckton of Indians in Tokyo. Every other 7/11 or konbini will have one working and they can't speak for fucking shit. A lot of restaurants also have foreign workers (Indians especially) and there's a good number of places like kebab restaurants. But again, even if you take a short train ride out of the major districts most of that evaporates. Akihabara in particular has an obscene number of non-Japanese.
 
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Chainsaw Juggler said:
There'll be a rowdy crowd, but it's extremely unlikely anything will happen to the same extent because of what all lead up to January 6th itself, such as:
-Pelosi denying Trump's requests for additional security
-Democrats immediately shutting off all talk of democracy being on the ballet now that they lost specifically because they don't want any parallel action taken by angry supporters
-Legacy media being in the pocket of the democrats, coverage would not be equal (fiery but peaceful protests, etc).
-DC just defaulting to lockdown mode these days
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Well of course they would show it as peaceful protesting. They'd probably get gift bags on there way out of the capital.
 
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I've seen other posts pointing out what I have noticed myself - that woke freakouts in reaction to this election are much lower this time around than we were expecting. It's nothing compared to the likes of 2016 or even the Brexit referendum, just the odd tiktok video. While disappointing from a salt-mining perspective, it's the biggest whitepill I've had in months. They are utterly demoralised. The cherry on top is Trump winning the popular vote. They're not the "#resistance". They're not the silent majority taking on an illegitimate regime. They're a shrinking band of freaks that have tied themselves to the sinking ship of a fading, flash-in-the-pan establishment consensus. All the people who joined the woke movement out of FOMO in being part of a revolutionary vanguard that would become immortalised in the history books as the first generation to usher in an everlasting utopia, are now realising that there's a high chance they'll be remembered as being on the Wrong Side of History after all.

Stances were already starting to be rolled back across the west (open borders for the US, troonery for the UK), but Donald "CONVICTED FELON!!!" Trump be reelected with the popular vote behind him is the full stop on the issue: We have passed peak wokeness. With any luck it will be consigned to history the same way the Iraq war was - as something nobody wants to admit supporting, and that it's almost impossible to believe was the near-unanimous establishment consensus. A decade-long culmination of worldwide mass hysteria.

Now that wokeness is on the decline, there's something else we can look forward to: When a liquid evaporates, the hotter molecules are the ones that have the kinetic energy to escape, and the result is that the remaining liquid has a lower average temperature. The same theory applies to shrinking social groups. As wokeness becomes less popular, the moderates start to peel away, leaving only the more fanatical True Believers behind. The group as a whole becomes more unhinged, not just because the individuals involved can see that they're losing, but because the statistics of the group change. This will only accelerate the decline. Hopefully in time, opinions that now fill corporate boards and government committees will return to being the currency of a small cluster of mentally ill freaks far away from power.

The only hope the woke movement has, that I can see, is in feminism. That's definitely the message that they're coalescing around. The idea of Handmaidens being under lock and key thanks to the men in power, and their evil male enablers in the voting population. Frankly, that in itself is a huge win. Women, unlike troons, muslims and illegal immigrants, are not society's enemies, and despite how stupid and hysterical the current talking points are, at least advocating for women as a group isn't in principle a bad thing for our society. It's also a massive territorial retreat if they keep pursuing this path. The woke movement grew from the "intersectional" outgrowth of 2013-era feminism. If the progs have retreated to "women" being their only safe rhetorical refuge, that's a whole decade of progress undone.

I pray that they are all as completely BTFO as they appear to be right now. Finishing the job won't be easy, but with a free and open X.com, and all of big tech now under a new Trump presidency filled with younger, more loyal, and more savvy staff, I am hopeful. Not just for the USA, but the world.
 
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