wtf, part 2
Nov. 9th, 2016 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyI don't have the words to explain how terrible I feel about the election outcome. I just... don't. A woman came in at 1am and, without preamble, announced, "I feel sick" and when I asked what was wrong she said, "We have a new President. Trump" and I thought the floor was going to give way right then and there. She then said it wasn't official (yet) but it wasn't looking good and how she'd given up smoking but sweet baby Jesus (I added that part), she needed something to get her through the night.
I worked til 8am which means I had a lot of people come through and normally I say hello and ask how everyone is. I couldn't this morning because it was soul crushing to find so many people I thought I liked so absolutely gleeful that Trump won.
But this didn't happen until the sun came up. Until then, it was a very, very quiet night. Contrast that to back in '08 when people came in screaming with joy or hatred, but there was a reaction. This election has been very, very quiet come the results. The radio didn't even announce anything and Mums sits in the car for a decent amount of time in the morning, k? So for it to be silent on that is pretty strange.
Facebook is a different thing entirely. I have a sea of people making similar posts to this, along the lines of "ohshit, America, what did you do?!" but every so often someone will post something and it's just like a record scratch. My favorite was a comment on someone I'm FB friends with but don't particularly like much (they're really, really self centered but they know EVERYONE and everyone loves them) that said that she wasn't an awful person for voting for Trump, and that it wasn't personal to anyone who was y'know, hosed by this development and she was not defined by her vote.
People naturally called her out. And dragged her to hell and she cried the whole way about how mean people were. Woman, you fucked countless people over because why? Why? That was the original question posed and she never answered why, she just immediately rushed to assure her friend that she wasn't in judgement of them. And then, after she'd been dragged to hell, she wanted that friend to save her. Right, right, let me just vote your rights away and then ask you to save me from the mean people on the internet whose rights I just handwaved away.
Idiots.
Now to find something funny to amuse myself with.
I worked til 8am which means I had a lot of people come through and normally I say hello and ask how everyone is. I couldn't this morning because it was soul crushing to find so many people I thought I liked so absolutely gleeful that Trump won.
But this didn't happen until the sun came up. Until then, it was a very, very quiet night. Contrast that to back in '08 when people came in screaming with joy or hatred, but there was a reaction. This election has been very, very quiet come the results. The radio didn't even announce anything and Mums sits in the car for a decent amount of time in the morning, k? So for it to be silent on that is pretty strange.
Facebook is a different thing entirely. I have a sea of people making similar posts to this, along the lines of "ohshit, America, what did you do?!" but every so often someone will post something and it's just like a record scratch. My favorite was a comment on someone I'm FB friends with but don't particularly like much (they're really, really self centered but they know EVERYONE and everyone loves them) that said that she wasn't an awful person for voting for Trump, and that it wasn't personal to anyone who was y'know, hosed by this development and she was not defined by her vote.
People naturally called her out. And dragged her to hell and she cried the whole way about how mean people were. Woman, you fucked countless people over because why? Why? That was the original question posed and she never answered why, she just immediately rushed to assure her friend that she wasn't in judgement of them. And then, after she'd been dragged to hell, she wanted that friend to save her. Right, right, let me just vote your rights away and then ask you to save me from the mean people on the internet whose rights I just handwaved away.
Idiots.
Now to find something funny to amuse myself with.
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Date: 2016-11-10 02:06 am (UTC)I actually went on FB this evening and posted to tell people (my relatives, mostly) that if they admit to me or brag about voting for him, I will not hesitate to cut them out of my life for good. I don't care to have confirmation that my own flesh and blood is that awful, especially not the ones who live in swing states.
As a single person who's greatest fear is dying alone, I don't say shit like that lightly. We'll see if anyone actually takes me seriously, but I meant what I said: I don't want to know.
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Date: 2016-11-11 02:00 am (UTC)The one that did, though, is breaking my brain. She's ticked because her daughter's sexual assault case is moving super slow but then she happily votes for Trump? She can't forgive the people who stand by the guy who hurt her daughter but Trump gets a pass? WTF. Throw in the fact that she was a hardcore Bernie supporter prior and yup, nope. I haven't removed her, yet, but I did mute her.
Sigh. I don't even post much on FB but this is making me want to just retreat into my little corner of the world even more than usual.