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[+] -16 points 9 months ago (14 children)

A gentle reminder that 2/3rds of the voting population voted for this.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    Not even 2/3rds of the voting population voted. The turnout was 64% of eligible voters. Trump won the popular vote with 49.8% of the votes. That's about 32% of eligible voters that voted for this.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    The people who didn't vote aren't some magical absolution of responsibility. They were either okay with this or didn't care either way, and apathy doesn't count in the "good" pile. I'm an American and want to find a way to justify defending the US too, but this particular argument doesn't hold any water. I could JUST as easily claim they all would've voted for Trump and they didn't show up because they figured he had it in the bag.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I mean... in a sense I kind of agree. Voter apathy largely allows people like Trump to win elections. On the other hand, 64% turnout is among record highs, even for a US presidential election, which traditionally draw the highest voter turnout. There are always people that don't vote. I don't assume that they all don't care or are okay with the results. There are plenty of people who aren't able to vote for a variety of reasons. Some of them because of economic or health limitations. Some of them due to outright voter suppression activity.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Just 1/3rd. But the other 1/3rd stood by and watched it happen, which is almost just as bad.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    1/3 didn't want a democracy, so they got Fascism.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Ignoring that these dems were doomed to fail. You seem to spend a lot of time blaming all of the voters and zero time blaming the Democratic establishment that refuses to adopt a winning fucking strategy. So excuse me if I don't tell you to piss all the way off as you parrot the excuses of the establishment to stay in power and do it again and again and again. It's already too fucking late because you trusted these ivy league fucking cunts in the establishment.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Not even close to 2/3 trolling rage baiter.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    1/3rd voted for Trump.

    1/3rd didn't vote.

    I'm no math major, but...

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    For the longest time half the population didn't vote. In 2020 I think the population that did vote went way up in percent. That said you seem to be spending a lot of energy blaming the voters that did not perpetually vote for a ever declining Democratic party that we knew could not win elections as they are. We knew what the electorate was, and you Forrest your week corporatist cunt establishment Democrats and they let you to blame everybody else and ignore the fact that they are running a doomed to fail strategy. You have nothing to say about that? I'm raising my voice in the last part there.

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