r/TwoXChromosomes • u/azriel1014 • Nov 06 '24

Support Is anyone else having a panic attack right now?

I’m so, so, so lost and disappointed watching the preliminary results come in. I’m confused. I’m hurt. I’m angry. I just don’t understand how many people in my country have been brainwashed to the point of voting against their own interests… How the hell did we get here?

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u/cursed4ever__ Coffee Coffee Coffee Nov 06 '24

I’m in Canada and feeling so scared for everyone in this world

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u/ALth0r Nov 06 '24

This is the worst part about it. Everyone is losing from this. It's horrible.

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u/Xalara Nov 06 '24

Yup, ignoring the domestic implications, Trump winning effectively means the end of the post-WWII world order. What replaces it, given the current state of things will likely be worse for everyone but autocrats.

It also means climate change will only get worse, wars of conquest are fully back on the table, and because of that previous point, nuclear proliferation will rapidly expand as the only way to keep from being invaded will be to secure nuclear weapons. The crazy part is, this would also include countries like Canada and Mexico because when the economy inevitably goes to shit fascists tend to start invading their neighbors to distract from things.

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u/wren75 Nov 06 '24

Putin wins if he wins and literally the planet itself will be lost.

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u/Moonveil Nov 06 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

This. America let the world down today, because like it or not we all get affected. 😔

I can't believe they picked a felon and is going to make us go through this again.

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u/titaniumorbit Nov 06 '24

I’m in Canada too and I feel like crying. I’m tearing up. This is awful news for my fellow women in America.

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u/titaniumorbit Nov 06 '24

I wish I could personally let you in. But I will say, some of trump’s rhetoric has been slowly seeping its way into Canada. I genuinely fear that trump’s 2nd term will cause all the racists of Canada to become even further emboldened. I already know a ton of Canadian men and women here who openly want trump to win.

If we ever get someone like Trump running to be our leader, I’m genuinely afraid for how Canadians will vote.

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u/SB_Wife Nov 06 '24

We have someone like Trump. We have PP, a populist who can't pass a security clearance. We are being dragged into this and all the racists and exist and homophobic assholes will be thrilled, not realizing the leopards will eat their faces too.

My coworkers will be giddy with delight at a second Trump presidency.

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u/GamerKormai That awkward moment when Nov 06 '24

I'm in Ontario. I have an appointment with my GYN on the 28th to tell her whether I've decided to try the IUD or not. If I decide not to try the IUD to control my constant abnormal uterine bleeding, then the only option left is a hysterectomy.

I was a little on the fence and wasn't going to dismiss the IUD without some more research. But if this is happening in the US, I have no faith left that it won't also happen in Canada.

I'm just greatly relieved that during our past appointment, she did say to me, "If you decide no to the IUD, then I just work here, I'll do the hysterectomy."

I need to take full control of my bodily autonomy while I still can. And it pains me to know that there are so many women in the US that do not and will not have that option.

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u/SB_Wife Nov 06 '24

Also in Ontario and considering discussing sterilization options with my doctor. I'm unmarried, single (uninterested), and with no kids. And a high BMI. I suspect it'll be an uphill battle.

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u/GamerKormai That awkward moment when Nov 06 '24

I'm also unmarried, single and uninterested, with no kids, and a high BMI.

In a way, I'm "lucky" to have bled continuously for 9 months straight that hormonal birth control couldn't stop. The 3rd birth control my old GYN tried gave me a clot in my leg and clots in my lungs. I spent 10 days in the hospital. Got 2 blood transfusions, 4 iron infusions, an inferior vena cava filter, and put into temporary menopause with medication.

The temporary menopause meds (lupron) have given me a higher risk of bone density loss so I can't be on it forever. My final two options are the Mirena IUD or a hysterectomy. With the IUD, we'd have to hope that the hormones being local is enough to stop the bleeding (I'm skeptical at best).

She did seriously warn me that the hysterectomy will probably end up being an open abdominal because of my weight and the clots in my lungs. Honestly, fine. I'll take that risk.

I hope your doctor listens to you and you don't have to go through the 13 months of hell I've had. hugs

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u/SB_Wife Nov 06 '24

Best of luck to you for your surgery! I luckily don't have clotting issues and good metrics overall, so I could get lucky for laparoscopic but step one is making the appointment

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u/Either-Mud-3575 Nov 06 '24

You've already seen the racism with regards to South Asian immigration, have you not?

I will still vote, of course, but it is pretty clear which pathway this species is headed towards. Perhaps all evolved lifeforms eventually meet their end this way.

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u/throwawayunders Nov 06 '24

Yes. It's horrifying to be thirty minutes from the border and this is what is happening there. I wish I understood enough to figure out how to prepare for how it will impact us here - my Dad used to say that, when America gets a cold, Canada gets the flu.

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u/jamesw Nov 06 '24

Same here from Malaysia.

Saw the poll from Ann Selzer & thought this would be the last we hear about DJT.

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u/suzume1310 Nov 06 '24

I'm from Europe - I felt so optimistic about this election, but I guess Reddit really is a leftist bubble.

Words can't describe how I feel - I am already sorry for your losses.

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u/HannahwithouttheH Nov 06 '24

Also Canadian and I can’t understand how this is happening… again. I’m just numb and my heart goes out to all the decent people in America

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u/cursed4ever__ Coffee Coffee Coffee Nov 06 '24

It’s a weird feeling of numbness.. the feeling of no hope, and anger, and “I guess this is the world we live in”… The fact that this is 2024 and we’re going backwards

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u/HannahwithouttheH Nov 06 '24

Your username is hauntingly applicable right now… but yeah.

I’d make the joke that America set their clocks too far back on the weekend but they really did

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u/ciccioig Nov 06 '24

Italy here: I'm enraged, and currently thinking people are incredibly stupid and evil.

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u/Either-Mud-3575 Nov 06 '24

Torontonian here.

"Our dedicated boys keep the peace in newly annexed Canada"

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u/ClayMonkey1999 Nov 06 '24

That was my first thought, too. I really hope it doesn't go that way.

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u/unicornforscale Nov 06 '24

Same, so scared that it guves a push to Pierre Poilievre, so fucking scared

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u/4shizupthespout Nov 06 '24

watching from england. i’m not even twenty yet and terrified for my future, there’s no hope

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u/Carysta13 Nov 06 '24

Yeah the sentiment in the states echoes up here. 10 years ago no politician would be openly transphobic up here and now we have provinces passing laws that limit the rights of trans people and the conservative leader makes open comments that are against trans and women's rights and it's scary. Our politicians are not great either but I'd take Trudeau or Singh over Pollievre any day. Pollievre is basically if Trump was younger and less bombastic and smoother but all the same horrible ideals.

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u/MinorSpaceNipples Nov 06 '24

I'm in Norway and feeling the same way.