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A Reminder (lemmy.today)
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[+] -7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

No. You don't get to dismiss those that didn't vote. It's like everyone wants to ignore the Law of Large Numbers when it comes to elections. The cold, hard truth is that even if we had 100% turnout, Trump still would have won. You seem to think that every non-voter was a potential vote against Trump, without stopping to consider how many would be a vote FOR him.

The Law of Large Numbers means that yes, over 50% of the country wanted this. You don't get to say it was only 30%, and treat the non-voters like a single bloc that would have voted differently. And I get it. It's comforting to think that it's only a third of the population that are full of hate and pants-shittingly stupid. But its well over half. American citizens are fucking idiots, and that's not an unfair generalization to make.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    The law of large numbers only applies to a random sampling. There is very clear indications that targeted disenfranchisement has been applied to the American electorate for decades. This indicates that if more people had voted, or been allowed to vote, that the results would have changed, or at least that's the belief of those who set things up this way. Those who aren't voting due to apathy may or may not be represented accurately by the votes cast, depending on the cause of their apathy.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    citizens are fucking idiots

    Ok.

    that's not an unfair generalization to make.

    Sure and you're not a bigot.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I mean sure, downvote me for pointing out the obvious. The Law of Large Numbers is an actual thing. It's why we can get accurate poll results while only polling ~1000 people. And the more you get, the smaller the margin of error becomes. We had about 65% turnout last election. At that level, the margin of error is essentially zero. Trump won the popular vote. That last 35% wouldn't have changed anything.

    Our problem isn't that we have a vocal minority terrorizing the majority. Its the majority that's a problem.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The problem I have with you is your bigotry. Which is why I succinctly said that. You didn't need to write so much, we all get it, you hate Americans.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    My country spent decades pretending it was the greatest to ever exist while it's citizens embraced ignorance and stupidity until we reached the point we're at now. Over half the population are people who should never be trusted with a decision. Oh, they're not evil, they're just dangerously gullible idiots. And it's the decisions those dangerously gullible idiots have made that might wind up killing us all.

    So yes, I hate Americans in the same way someone who grows up in a racist family hates their own family. Because there are only two options when you grow up with these dumbasses: you either hate them, or become a dumbass yourself.

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