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[–] [email protected] 2 points 42 minutes ago

I would say that the Republicans winning the popular vote made it a pretty decisive victory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Why on earth these people didn't vote?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Compulsory voting in Australia is looking good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Turnout is low when votes don't matter and voters get suppressed when their vote does matter. This is working as designed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

I'll take whoever this "Did not vote" instead please

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Let's be honest here, both parties are full of shit. During Biden term 3500 students had their visa revoked due to anti Zionist protests, let alone canary mission bullshit.

And do not forget about insider trading and that both parties are funded by private companies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 44 minutes ago

And Trump wants to deport 20 million people, yea, exactly the same.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

BoTh SiDeS!!

They are not the same. One is an open Nazi party

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

trump talked about how elon knows those voting computers so well

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's something to keep in mind.

Don't alienate those 36.32%. I'm sure some of us have strong feelings about their choices, but at the end of the day they outnumber Democrats and Republicans each by quite a bit. If you want to see change you are going to have to convince some of them to join you. This goes for elections and this goes for revolutions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

American democracy and freedom are fucked. But I don't blame those 36% of non-voters. These people were INSPIRED to give up on politics.

It's the media environment. Political coverage fucking sucks by design. Left populism is too interesting to be given air time, too much of a threat to the people who fund the parties and own the media. Politics used to be interesting. Politicians used to say things, now they just run out the clock with white noise.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean no

In an election between Bush and Kerry (the guy who lost 2004 election) or something like that then yes. People can be annoyed or just too busy to vote.

This election was perfectly clear that the future of US democracy was at stake and more than 1/3 of the voters decided to not show up. They decided that they were fine not choosing and as such fine with either option. I mean even if the choice was between Trump and a dog, the dog should have won by a landslide. 4 years of nothing would have been miles better than the decades that US is going back.

This presidency is already catastrophic and it barely even started.

I don’t even know how the US and the world can handle 4 years of this shit at this pace.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What makes you think this was clear to people? Most people simply do not pay attention to politics, even the voters who ignorantly cast votes for whatever their tribe is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

even my grandma was aware that there was a lunatic in the White House who encouraged domestic terrorism and we live across the Atlantic and she doesn’t even speak English

This isn’t on the level of which economic policy is the best for long term sustainable growth. This is just recognizing that Trump is an incompetent piece of shit that will admit to scamming whoever he can (and admit it) and literally anyone else and that if Trump won the US is fucked

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago

This is misleading.

According to those stats, the majority of people voted for someone other than Harris as well.

The real takeaway here is large percentage of people that don't vote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Also 6 million suppressed votes say: Kamala won!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

"AynRandLibertarian" username. Is that.. chosen ironically?

She was all about a persons worth being about their output and self sufficiency, and that empathy was evil, and yet she died penniless, in a city, using public government support to feed herself. Her ideas didnt meet their own proposed standard. Thats your hero, a poor who hated poors because they were poor, but worshipped the rich?

I'd think you were more on point if you just admired her for her lack of dental care and you hated dentists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Not a fan of the fountain head I take it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

This is why we need ranked choice voting

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