RDN's Lucifer (nerthos)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-16 21:53:28 UTC
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@ceruleanspark How many of those are there though? I don't think there's many more of them than the other side has violent extremists, specially considering the riots and beatings the losing party has perpetrated. And there's also the fact that, while you being on the side that had been getting social victories lately, many people on the opposite side had been feeling genuinely silenced and discriminated against. As far as I've seen there's no real risk of anything nor any real fascism past internet nutjobs, and Trump seems intent on closing the ideological gap. I speak having lived an election that was identical to this one over here, and over the last year seen how none of the pre-election fearmongering came to pass, violence and fascism being carried out solely by the most fanatic and politically invested followers of the losing party. Plus as Hakui said yesterday, the average Trump voter didn't think "I want to disenfranchise minorities" when they voted, but rather (cont)
