• Croquette@sh.itjust.works
    191·
    2 months ago

    I am not American and the election is giving me anxiety.

    Right now, I am watching the live results, and I am terrified to go to bed because it should be a landslide win for Harris, but it isn’t.

    America is going full fascist right before our eyes.

  • HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
    18·
    2 months ago

    2016 I was on a work trip and had to hit the hay early, and that was awful to wake up to. 2020 I stayed up with whiskey and total war. This year I think will be weed and anime but I’ll stay up fairly late

    • cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      I think this is my plan as well. I tried to watch right after the polls closed and I turned into an awful wreck so now it’s bobs burgers and weed and maybe some midnight stress cooking.

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    I will.most likely check a few times and then try to force myself to ignore it because even if networks start calling the race for Harris tonight, the legal shenannigans are going to drag out for a while.

    Staying up tonight in the hopes of a clear win is a fool’s errand.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 months ago

    If I stay up, it’s because I’m gaming. Remember, Biden wasn’t declared winner until the following Saturday.

    If fascism wins, and it very much can, conserve your energy, bottle your anger, and figure out the next move.

  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 months ago

    I want to try to go to sleep but I know I won’t be able to, and I’ll wake up in the middle of the night even if I pop an ambien. I tried to keep a good mood today but then my mom had to blurt out that the orange turd already took 2 states while Harris has 1 and now my mind is a wreck

    I never gave a shit about a presidential election up until 2016 when I figured Clinton would coast in. Then I made sure to be involved in every election since then, minor and major, voting pure blue. 2020 was still a little scary, but nowhere near as terrifying as this one

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I wish you the best of luck and expediency in that endeavor. I’m pretty solidly stuck here; all my family has been here for generations, so I have no “heritage” to speak of to get myself citizenship in another country.

        If/when I leave my job I do have the option to drain my retirement as a (mostly) untaxed lump sum; I’m under 30, so I don’t expect retirement to still exist as a concept in 40 years. I expect the fund will get taken out from under me either way, better to at least use it for myself.f.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          2 months ago

          I’m really sorry. I feel bad for you and for so many others. One of the mods in c/News has a gay and a trans kid. Another has a daughter-in-law who could get deported. They don’t have the luck I have. I wish they did. I wish I could take all of you with me.

          • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Funny enough it wouldn’t be hard for me to get a job in the UK, but I would still be working for the same branch of US government 😐

  • Breezy@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    Ive been awake for an hour. Fuck i mean first thing i see is trump with 100 point lead. Im tired boss.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
    125·
    2 months ago

    285,428 idiots so far have voted for Jill Stein.

    They are outnumbered 1.8-to-1 by votes for RFK, Jr. or Chase Oliver. My level of hope that the foolish people on the left will be outnumbered by foolish people on the right is: IT’S NOT FUN ANYMORE

    I think I will stop the updates, I’m getting scared now.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    5·
    2 months ago

    Definitely staying up until there’s either a decision, or an indication that there won’t be a decision for a while. Like, “Okay, PA is the decider, and we’re not going to know about PA until some time after the sun is up,” or something.

    I’ll sleep when I’m dead.