To all Americans here: thank you

[weekev]

My country wasnt able to do that 2 years ago, so in my book, Saturday was a good accomplishment.

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Yeah fair play. Hopefully some dominoes in other countries start to fall. It still sucks that not voting for a fascist dictator should be applauded, especially given the narrow margin.

 

[Mantrox]

I thought of making this exact thread.

Thank you all, sincerely.

 

[JeTmAn]

You're welcome, and we're sorry for creating the problem in the first place.

 

[mztik]

January 20th can't come any sooner.

(President inauguration day)

 

[Tom Nook]

You're welcome.

 

[Deleted member 4346]

Living in Latin America, you can thank us. If you're in the Middle East or Africa, it's business as usual I'm afraid. Starvation in Yemen and innocents murdered in drone strikes. Unfortunately we missed out on our shot to end that. In general foreign policy will not change much going from Trump to Biden.

Neat thing to look forward to maybe in a couple years is, at least the drones will be sent by a woman of black and South Asian origin!

 

[Deleted member 23212]

I didn't do anything, but you're welcome. Not sure if you should really be thanking us for replacing a bad man with a less bad man though.

 

[Muppet of a Man]

 

[Deleted member 46493]

The symbolic victory is definitely nice and bode well for Brazil. Doesn't mean much for South America when Biden is for Plan Colombia, which combats left wing groups in the country much as the US has done in the continent for fifty years.

 

[refusi0n1]

US going full on fascist feels like the terminator plot. We've just delayed judgement day we'll keep doing it as long as possible though

 

[Yggfk]

For better or worst, it's undeniable the influence that the USA has around the world in general and in Latin America in particular. A joke around here is that you guys are more effective in choosing Latin American presidents than your own.

But Saturday you gave everyone hopes that this far-right wave that has haunted the world can be tamed and maybe stoped. In Brazil, where I was (unfortunately?) born and currently live, some small (really small for now) effects can already be felt. Whether this will lead to something more factual two years from now, when my country will have presidential elections, I don't know yet, but as I said, at least since last Saturday, we have a little hope that this desperate feeling that something really valuable is dying in front of us, may indeed be stopped.

And for that, thank you.

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Myself being from Brazil, I couldn't agree more! Thank you guys for giving us hope that we can, AND WILL, change our future! Cheers!!

 

[Dali]

I'm not worthy of your thanks. Ive failed you senpai. Ohio ended up red. I've no choice but to commit sudoku.

 

[CurseVox]

It was too close for comfort, which means we all have a lot of work to do. But this is a great start. Cheers and thanks for believing in us!

 

[Weltall Zero]

As a Spaniard, thank you, and congratulations on getting off the hell ride. <3

 

[Deleted member 13101]

Never bemoan the US-centric nature of this forum again.

I'm kidding. Seriously, we've taken but one step forward, we have a lot to clean up, and still have the rest of the journey to complete. We will all keep going.

 

[Yossarian]

A joke around here is that you guys are more effective in choosing Latin American presidents than your own.

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[criteriondog]

Thank you! More than ever, more people I know voted ever than prior to previous elections.

I kept telling my friends, and myself, that this election was (and likely will be) the most important of my lifetime, and I'm only 26.

Thanks to everyone else on Era who voted!

 

[Nepenthe]

I'm not worthy of your thanks. Ive failed you senpai. Ohio ended up red. I've no choice but to commit sudoku.

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Meanwhile down South--



But yeah, don't thank us entirely just yet. This is the beginning of a long road of excising away Trumpism from our systems and consciousness, and hopefully swinging the pendulum towards something resembling progressiveness and human decency. We've got a lot of work to do.

 

[M. Wallace]

You're welcome. My county was one of two in my state to turn blue from red last election. State as well.

 

[smurfx]

I'm just happy I don't have to actively worry about biden being evil or hiring some other evil fuck.

 

[Hollywood Duo]

 

[psionotic]

Biden & Harris being President and Vice President are going to really change how the UK government approach brexit deals before the end of the year. You guys may have saved us from cutting allties from the EU and opening up our markets to the US market, which was a real fear due to food standards & protecting the NHS from US healthcare companies.

That combined with Trump setting the tone for the world, again this new president is gonna make a huge difference the UK government has basically been able to hide behind the disaster that is Trump to distract from their own failures. This is something they will no longer be able to do.

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Exactly. the US is still f---ed up in many ways, but now it gets a lot harder for right wing authoritarians to lean on us for political and economic. Trump was a huge Euro-skeptic (to put it mildly), now we're going to have a pro-union government. There will also be no more coddling of Bolsanaro, Duterte, and especially Putin.

 

[Tochtli79]

I mean... it's good that Trump was voted out but I don't know if we should be thanking the US until we know we won't get another racist madman in 4 years, continued meddling in our countries, wars in the Middle East, and all the other good old Exported Freedom that both Democrats and Republicans have been guilty of.

 

[super etrian odyssey]

we're tryin

got so much fucking work to do

gotta focus all our energy and time and money (if we can) on GA runoffs