If anything the commenters are arguing that people aren't stressed enough by the election.
Jesus, I must be taking crazy pills. We've been hurtling by "reasonable disagreements" for decades and now one of the two possible candidates for president is talking about immigrants "poisoning the blood of our nation" and using the military on the "enemy within". That is neither hyperbole, nor exaggeration, nor straw man.
I consider myself fairly well-informed, and no amount of coping mechanisms can change material reality. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
This article is weird. It's not like the issues the extreme right wing are no longer hypothetical - they're completely visible and have been for awhile. People have been dying because of the policies and actions from Republicans for awhile now, such as abortion laws as just one example.
It kinda feels like telling LGBTQ not to be anxious in the 1950s, or women not to be anxious when the Taliban were taking over the government in Afghanistan, or certain minorities to not be anxious in the Weimar Republic.
All this comment needed was a reference to Star Wars to have ticked off every trope.
I'm going to guess you aren't a person who can get pregnant.
The correct phrase is "dual-hole-having birther".
I'll not just keep pasting comments here, click the link and read more if you want, they're all exactly the same.
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I need more of these
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How poor are you that you need to sell your rings? You can buy a Ruger for $299 at Scheels or Fleet Farm. Cheaper yet if you want a Taurus or no-name brand
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He was a cheesemaker
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Both completely shit guns too lol
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Even the brokest cheesemaker can afford a $200 12GA
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A used glock 19 is 360$
The security 9 feels like butt.
A
shotgun would have been better
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Doesn't matter, the soyboy is gonna miss anyway.
It just needs to make a loud BANG to hopefully spook the spook.
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Security shotgun 12ga is way cheaper and they would actually hit something
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Look at who we're talking about. He's selling his engagement ring to protect the heckin' ethnic neighbors.
A shotgun ("assault tube") is big, scary, and there's too much risk of collateral damage to his Funko™ collection
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its also loud and the bullets are big cylinders
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enjoy your roebuck quad lock that doesn't unlock
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another person
who needs 
their phone 
taken away
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It's hilarious how you can tell the people who have absolutely no skin in the game. People who aren't members - or know members - of a marginalized community. I have Muscular Dystrophy. There's a much higher chance of me dying under Trump than Harris. Even if he doesn't go so far as to put people like me in camps (the Germans did), his proposed healthcare cuts will absolutely frick me over.
I'm also a diabetic. There's a good chance I won't be allowed my medicine under Trump. A good chance I won't be able to see my doctor. A good chance that the program that allows me to live at home rather than in a nursing home shuts down. And with how crowded nursing homes are now? A good chance I wind up homeless.
Do you get it now? For some of us it is about our survival. We don't have the luxury or privilege to not be affected.
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!besties averageben10enjoyer is a fat dysgenic cripple
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I like the idea that Trump would take away insulin from diabetics. The corn syrup lobby would go apeshit.
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Just imagine how much we could lower obesity rates overnight
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I must have missed the part of trumps campaign where he promises to outlaw insulin, apparently
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Hopefully! I voted for people like you to go into camps and get made into lamps, so this is a pretty reasonable middle ground. Get a job greeting people at Walmart. No more freebies commie
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I want 40k figurines made of human
bone.
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Ugh
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Rude.
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I try not to be rude towards disabled people but some of them are just too much.
If God made me broken I'd hate the world too so yea I get it
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You don't live in America though
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Where do you think they make insulin, genius?
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I have it on good source they make most of it in gaza
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Probably some nerd factory
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the north pole
huge racket
think about it
big red fills socks with candy
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Creating the disease and the cure is pretty based
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democrats during an election: "the republikkans are going
to take away your Medicaid/disability!"
republicans: medicare, social
security, and disability 
are untouched
New election
cycle.
democrats during an election: "the republikkans are going
to take away your Medicaid/disability!"
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Whoever coined trump derangement syndrome must have been a time traveling.
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It was originally called Bush Derangement Syndrome like 20 years ago
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I saw a sticker in a shitlib boomer auto shop that mentioned kicking bush sr out of office or something I and went oh wow nothing has changed
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I know a lot of the screeching is coming from youngins, and this place is a retirement home by internet standards, but it's been like this as long as I can remember.
TDS may be a little worse because of the internets amplification but shitlibs have always been this way.
I mean for fricks sake, Romney and McCain were also literally Hitler, and now they love them because they didn't like Trump.
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Whats crazy
is anyone with a memory 
remembers the democrats almost entirely supported a lot of buch policies and only pivoted against him when they saw the opportunity.
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I never heard of that during that time.
Liberals marched in the streets calling Bush Hitler, but the journos and politicucks never called Bush Hitler. Now kamala is calling her opponents nazis wih the journos, her boss is calling people garbage so complaining about decency is rslurred
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I'm picturing a novel set in 2060 where some aging zoomer guy flips out and thinks Trump is getting elected... and starts roaming the streets in despair
It would have to be written in 2060 to be good
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Is there a law or adage where the people least likely to be affected by an election are the ones who take the most interest in it?
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!grillers law: the moat r-slurred and lowIQ
vote for whatever candidate because they saw it on tv or whatever
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!eurochads
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The EU has 3x's the population and 10xs the gdp of Russia. Why do they need the US to provide muscle? Bitches should have hit the gym.
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Why hit the gym when the guy we hate but rely on defends us from a 1000year bully
we keep trying to humanize?
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Shut it down
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Good, frick the EU.
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JoycecarolGLOATS YOU RACIST.
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Every election is the deciding election for democracy.
If Trump can't kill your fat butt back in 2016, what make them think he will do it now.
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I really will never understand how liberals can live their lives without getting heart disease or taking high blood pressure mediation.
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They do. Libs also make up the vast majority of people with mental health issues
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I figured this was just a joke, but
https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/why-depression-rates-are-higher-among-liberals
Liberals are literally teenagers.
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UM ITS BECUZ THEY ACTUAL APPRECIATE HECKIN SCIENCE
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It's been obvious for a while, nice to see it getting officially recognised.
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You see this in college, especially with the coddled children
of wealthy 
families.
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Excuse me sweaty but that's because liberals are on the right side of history and do not stigmatize mental illness, so they self report more mental illness.
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You're obviously severely depressed though
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I'm barely even a "lib" and definitely do not represent a common median lib. Also I'm not saying libs aren't crazy, just pointing out that the other side has all kinds of crazies too. Well, I was going to but apparently I forgot the text.
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Otherwise known as, "raised by a single mommy in downtown bustleville"
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Guess #2 - mommy wasn't big on discipline lol
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I think he really is different to some extent. He's had 4 years to stew, just lying in his own juices being butthurt and having sycophants butter him up. What really matters (goes for most world leaders in general) isn't him, it's who appoints beneath him. In the first term he had a lot of actually honorable sane people trying to run the government, but now it's gonna be... Elon, MTG, Laura Loomer...
I'll support him if he makes Azealia Banks Secretary of State tho.
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Alex jones as press secretary
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I miss pre brain melted Alex Jones that could talk about a single topic for more than 60 seconds :(
dude probably combined perscription pills with booze and cocaine
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Shortly after he got elected, I had a nightmare where I was a high-level civil servant and he walked up to me in the White House and told me I should "hero worship" him.
I tried to explain that that's not really what we're here for...
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I woke up before that could happen.
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This is the lamest dream anyone has ever had
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I think
the establishment made their bed with that. They tried suing, imprisoning, and blackballing everyone 
who associated with that administration. I can't tell of that was to create this situation or if it was them lashing out because the elites didn't get their way.
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Yeah, they fricked everything up completely. I think there's a lot of good reasons to put him (or most presidents) in prison if you really want to punish him, but instead what do they do? They convict him in New York for a crime that never in a million years would be prosecuted if it was anybody else and then start calling him a "felon", like that's going to change anyone's mind. It's appalling when Trump's entire career was all about white collar crime, then he becomes president and does a lot more illegal stuff, and the one charge they managed to get him stuck with was bullshit. They would have been better off doing nothing.
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If any of them cared about prosecuting crimes by politicians, the ones pushing for trumps imprisonment would
be in there 
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Its not the end of democracy, its the end of the democratic party and its self inflicted
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Kamala said (on Columbus Day IIRC) that white people should feel bad because we "brought disease" to America. At least Trump is being kind of vague, she just spells it out for you to make sure you understand.
110% chance this guy has whined repeatedly about how none of the Taliban dindus ever deserved to be drone striked over 20 years.
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Trump wasn't being vague, he said they let in 5-10 million illegal immigrants on purpose and it's poisoning the blood of our nation, which you can see by watching police activity channel on YouTube. Libs are trying to cut off the beginning to make it all immigrants.
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Assuming that's true: I don't give a frick.
This c*nt said that my race (including me) is responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people and I should feel bad about it. And the way they committed this genocide was coughing centuries before we had Fauci &ct. to give us masking guidelines.
When she did this, she racialized the election. She's the one who made the decision. I can't vote for Democrats in the same way I can't vote for Hezbollah because I'm not Shi'a, I can't vote for uMkhonto weSizwe because I'm not Zulu, I can't vote for Komeito because I'm not in the Sokka Gakkai cult. These are parties based on one specific demographic group that looks out for their interests. Nobody who is outside of that demographic votes for them. It would never even cross their mind.
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Listen cracker, I have a fifty character attention span and you blew past it with that unreadable rant. I was just saying what trump actually said. Go take your meds lol
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Read this f-slur:
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Okay little buddy have a safe day today lol
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Please be friendly in my threads x
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Okay now im feeling harassed. Just put a sign up that says "no big peepee allowed" next time
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I dont recall this but can i get a source for it i really want to seethe
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I fear that whatever shitstorm happens after one of the candidates wins won't be enough to compensate for all the overdramatic drivel I (mostly unwillingly) experienced leading up to this election.
Fingers crossed for a Jan 7th (liberal edition if circumstances force it), but this time they actually do something, like toppling the Washington monument with ropes for example. That would be cool.
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Nah hopefully they'll do that thing again where they barricade off a couple of city blocks to set up a progressive commune free from the oppression of bastard cops only for it to rapidly devolve into them getting ruled over by a heavily-armed African American pseudo warlord. Because that was lollers as frick
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Chaz/Chop was just absolutely incredible. I really hope it happens again
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Chaz/Chop was amazing, but I don't see it happening again. Everyone saw what kind of unmitigated disaster it was. Some r-slurs may try, but I doubt anyone is going to allow them to do it again like before.
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I miss their glorious garden
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liberals support the establishment so they'll do what they're told.
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Hmm let's looks that up…oh look, they are lying for progress again
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Snapshots:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/11/here-are-3-science-backed-strategies-to-rein-in-election-anxiety/?comments-page=1#comments:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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I have anxiety af, social anxiety in fact but like it never occurred to me that u could be anxious of some economic collapse or car accidents or idk it feels like not my anxiety turf
My anxiety is solely caused by growing beard as a woman. it's anxious feeling as my Viking braided beard flies around while I walk down the shopping aisle. I never know if I need an axe or condoms
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I am anxious about the election because im deeply afraid journ*lists will become smug again and i dont want to hear them bleat out nonsense while winning
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Just like in 2016, right guys?
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(everyone on Ars Technica is a middle class white man, no minority has ever even accidentally clicked on a link to it from somewhere else)
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Have they tried not caring?
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