• toomanypancakes
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    12719 hours ago

    Big thanks to all the Americans who voted in favor of another trump presidency. He couldn’t have won without them.

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      Like every election, only about 1/3 of eligible voters did. I will never again listen to a single fucking thing people who didn’t vote or those who threw theirs away on a 3rd-party candidate have to say.

      There are people in fascist authoritarian countries (incoming in 3, 2, 1…) who would love to vote and have it matter. They would even choose to die for it…

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        514 hours ago

        You really should listen to them though. They are telling you exactly what they want.

        Ignoring them and then being surprised and mad they didn’t show up wasn’t the play. And it will continue not being the play.

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          What are you actually talking about? See, this is the exact disconnect I’m referencing. “Listen to them”? How can I, when they have voluntarily made themselves voiceless. Say what you will about the maga freaks, at least they believe in something and do the bare minimum for their cause by voting.

          I completely understand being disillusioned with the election process or even thinking bOtH SiDeS are the same, but… In an election for President, Senators, House and local Representatives, ballot measures, etc, if you’re eligible to vote and don’t, you’re part of the problem. Even if you’re okay with the status quo for yourself, children, friends, family, and vulnerable people, you’re still taking a large risk in such a close election as it’s a transitional time and no one knew what the exact results would be…

          I know that’s quite a rant. But all I’m really saying is they have no right to complain after sitting on the sidelines when it mattered, and I simply won’t listen to a thing they say now

      • toomanypancakes
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        8519 hours ago

        And despite that he still got millions of votes. Millions of Americans want this. We’re a country of terrible people.

        • @[email protected]
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          2419 hours ago

          Hey now. We’re only half full of terrible people. Some of us did our best to do the right thing.

          • PM_ME_CUTE_ASlANS
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            2318 hours ago

            More than half the country if you count the people who voted for him and the people who didn’t vote.

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          Hear, hear. Truly terrible people. It’s like half of my countrymen are the people from Always Sunny.

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        4019 hours ago

        It doesn’t matter. You are ignoring the rot at the core. Even if people turned out and kamala won - it Trump should have broken the Republican party. It should not have been a competition.

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          trump voters don’t make any* deflections on who they are. the cruelty IS what they vote for. it’s not gonna break the republican party, it’s what they’ve been asking for. Trump just tapped into it. can’t do anything about those fuckers and trying isnt worth it.

          I want to look at the people who just sat this round out because it wasn’t exciting and wouldnt really harm them. going back to “this isnt who we are” as a culture and pleading with them is not gonna work.

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            They haven’t finished counting the votes yet. Unless you are somehow comparing to the exact point in the count 4 years ago, this type of analysis is very premature. Except even that would be a bad idea because covid made things weird in 2020.

            It’ll be a little while until we get a good handle on turnout. Until then don’t read too much into it.