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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 142 points 1 day ago

Utterly bizarre. I expected Trump might squeak out an electoral win, but the popular vote as well? Thanks everyone who stayed the fuck home. You sat by as fascism was ushered in to the US.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago

Same. I'm not sure if I'm more... "Ok" with this? We should still abolish the electoral college, but we were shafted by the American people this time (and the propaganda machine making things worse). It's the first time since I turned 18 that the GOP actually won the popular vote... Sigh

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[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago

When you lose an election this badly, people are clearly not buying you’re selling.

But damn I did not expect so many people to sit out against the guy who did the coup and amongst all the other shit. If there is any light ahead, I think it’s that this L forces the Democratic Party to lean back left with their campaign promises, and whatever power they have left to affect policy.

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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago

The guy won the popular vote. The people who sat the election out would probably have broken for Trump too.

The problem here isn't voter turnout, it's voter preference for a fascist.

[-] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago

Actually, the problem appears to be exactly voter turn out. With a healthy heaping of Neo-Liberal rot in the Democratic Party.

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, a Very Special Thanks to the morally pure angels who refused to vote for Kamala Harris because they were standing on high ground about some issue they disliked her on. Well done, fuckheads.

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[-] chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago

That genocide is gonna stop any day now

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[-] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 132 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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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[-] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

"If liberals are so fucking smart why do they lose so goddamn always?"

  • Will McAvoy "The Newsroom"

I don't think it's fair to blame voters when it's the politician's job during s campaign to convince people they're worth voting for.

Adopting unpopular centrist policies and aligning more and more with centrist Biden's policies as the campaign went on is just going to fill voters with apathy.

The Democrats, once again, didn't give us a candidate to vote for, only one to vote against. And I think the American people are sick of that carrot-stick routine, the Dems need to actually adopt popular policies.

And the establishment Dems are going to fight that tooth and nail.

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

“He didn’t elaborate on what would be ‘nasty.’”

Bullies usually don't elaborate. Being vague lets you fill in your own demons, which is more frightening.

Also plausible deniability when the thugs he's whistling to go out and bash gays or blacks or Mexicans or whoever (athough in their minds he was giving them permission). "I never said go bash heads. No, I meant nasty as in peacefully, as in not sugarcoating the hard truth, which can be nasty."

[-] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 72 points 1 day ago

Yeah, both parties went down from 2020 counts. We literally had something like 18m or 20m who didn't show up combined.

Wild stuff. Oh well, we rode this roller-coaster once, we ride it again. Maybe this round we don't lose 2% of our population?

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago

I'll bet we never find out how many were denied the ability to vote because of registration purges, bomb threats, and other malicious voter suppression.

But the fact that states both voted for abortion access at the state level and then also voted in all Republicans who will pass a national ban shows the voting population is stupid enough that this was the likely outcome anyway.

Fuck this country.

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[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago
[-] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Always has been

[-] Happywop@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Ah yes the free Palestine crowd...lol wait until they see what Israel will do with no US restraint demands.

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