And what happens if Joe dies in his sleep before election day? No one is talking about this as a liability but given the speed of his cognitive decline and the stress of the job and schedule, why is it outside the realm of possibility? Trump will of course live to be 180 years old since he’s literally a conglomerate of McDonalds microplastics and literally one of the worst pieces of shit to walk the earth in the post modern era. Why would anyone want Trump over Kamala outside of being an impotent right wing Russia cuck?

Kamala sucks but she’s the contingency plan. She’s part of his admin that passed the IRA, CHIPS, etc. and trying to put forth executive action that would seemingly be beneficial for the American people. Presumably she’d continue many of the same policies as her predecessor. There is no perfect candidate in a FPTP two-party system.

So because I’m in a first past the post system over here, how does that work? You will still have other parties that can form a coalition against the right at that point? Assuming they don’t get 50+% of the vote, correct? The courts here are already fascist and preparing for the takeover due to Trump’s judge appointments during his term. Congress is deadlocked and useless as usual, and Biden is circling the drain figuratively and literally. There is no run off here. No coalitions to be had. Trump gets 47%, Biden 46%, and Kennedy 7%? Trump becomes president even though over half the country doesn’t want him. What’s worse is that he only needs percentages of the electoral college and not actual votes.

Germany, at least from my outsider perspective, seems to understand its history enough to be minimizing the right wing to its true proportions. But yeah, I’m well aware the developed world is going to shit. I’m not really sure what to do about it or where to go. The USA feels like ground zero for this shit due to Trump being in Russia’s pocket. That propaganda op worked better than anything they’ve ever done in the past. Even they probably can’t believe how successful they’ve been.

We looked at Spain, but ultimately the salaries are so low that we wouldn’t be able to afford to fly home to visit relatives and friends assuming we can still do that post Trump. I guess I’m not writing off the US entirely just yet but it’s not looking too great.

Thanks for your advice and well wishes. I hope to vote against AfD if/when I get there.

I’ve been saving for a down payment for a house for two years. It would appear my money is not wanted in the USA. I also have dual EU citizenship. My plan is to improve my spoken German and take my family overseas.

As an atheist married to a Salvadoran woman with whom I have two hispanic children, I feel like after they run out of illegal immigrants we’ll not be far down the “committing suicide with two bullets to the back of the head” list. Or maybe we’ll just get sent to a camp that treats ADHD if you catch my drift.

I visited Germany in 2022 and was very impressed with the walkable/bikeable infrastructure and ICE trains even if they were late on occasion. The food wasn’t my favorite but the culture and people were kind and they still seem to value rule of law and societal decorum to a certain degree. The idea that making a nazi salute in public is jailable/fineable is really how it should be everywhere but “free speech” yadda yadda…

I have wanted to leave the US since 2003. Just didn’t have skills or money until now. I’m still going to struggle with a language barrier and finding a job with A2 level German. That’s my biggest issue right now I think.

My mom moved to the US not knowing English. How the turntables have turned.

Terminally online people are always fighting these silly mini-culture wars through the social media platforms our tech overlords have cursed us with. As self-centered consumers of content all day, they lose perspective, and feel the need to maintain their self-esteem and dignity by scoring points with “hot takes” or staying on top with current trends to stay relevant. Some of these takes stick for lack of a better term, and serve as a litmus test for whether you’re a member of the cool in-group, or the cheugy cringe ok boomer out-group.

This serves the overlords by dividing us further, and preventing class consciousness by removing our ability to relate through our innate humanity, since everyone is now a classification that can be marketed to in a nice neat little box packaged and sold to not even the highest bidder but anyone who wants to pay for it. Instead of having a personality and seeing the value in all human beings, they commodify themselves and others into their perceived advertising footprint. I don’t know if this is true for everyone, but it certainly feels that way these days based on the garbage I see coming from short form video content.

If I haven’t made it clear, I’m of the opinion that short form video and social media are really bad for us for a variety of reasons, but especially as a social bonding mechanism.

teeming deez nuts haha gottem

I am a German born American who worked for the post office. Still fighting my alcoholic demons but I’ll have something to write about when I’m done.

My school had nothing about react, node, angular, angularJS, SaaS, etc. back in 2015.

We learned Perl, PHP, LAMP stack, SOAP based APIs and other “antiquated” things. Provided a solid foundation of fundamentals that I’ve built a nice career on.

It might have been by design to get a feel for the fundamentals. Or maybe it’s just because the people teaching it have probably left the industry and are teaching how they did it.

My department head was in his 70s and my professors all trended on the older side.

Appreciate the kind words. Been in and out of therapy as needed for a decade or more now. Finally accepting things as they are.

Still alive last I checked but dead to me if that means anything.

My dad used to say “your ass is grass and I’m the lawnmower” as a joke sometimes, but then he would beat the ever living fuck out of with whatever was in reach and it didn’t seem like he was joking at all.

I was confused by what this meme meant, but it reminded me of that.

Money and time and tragedy and a sense of purpose.

Hulu, Tubi, Pluto, and Roku are all real. I know that’s the joke, but for the non americans out there.