• HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Honestly, I am just hoping that the new country/countries that emerge from the smoking heap of America will try harder to enshrine democracy. Likely that will take decades.

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      24 hours ago

      It feels alot like margaret atwood wasn’t writing fiction at the moment. The religious and/or far right wing seems to be getting their way over there and it honestly feels like the handmaids tale is their vision. At least that is my take here from the other side of the pond.

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        5 hours ago

        As an American woman, I’m just waiting for the day they disable my credit card… that’s how the show starts out.

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          5 hours ago

          That’s scary as hell! I also worry about how the world is changing because of your current admimistration, if you can call it that, but actually fearing about your basic rights like that really sucks. Wish you all the best and hope it never comes to extremes like that!

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        19 hours ago

        Yeah, I’ve been referring to them as the Gilead Party fairly often since the show came out. (I missed the book somehow.)

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      19 hours ago

      Oh yeah, 100% for sure I will die of old age before we have recovered (whatever that will mean in this context) from this. I wish I was wealthy enough to do more than just hope really hard I can keep my family safe until then.