• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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    11 month ago

    Nah, if “None of the above” was a candidate, it would’ve won the election.

    So americans don’t really want a president, just an empty podium.

    • @agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      It’s the will of the people who bothered to show up to express their will, which is basically the bare minimum of “will”. They didn’t say the preference of the people

    • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      91 month ago

      Heck no, you don’t get to dodge your responsibility like that. There’s an electoral system in place, you deal with it as it is, you don’t show up it doesn’t mean you disagree with both candidates it means you agree with whatever candidate everyone else chooses for you. A vast majority of Americans agree with Trump as president, that’s the state of things.

    • @YoFrodo@lemmy.world
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      61 month ago

      Not voting just meant that they were fine with whatever the majority wanted. Like the trolly problem even not choosing is actually still a choice and those eligible nonvoters are culpable.

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      61 month ago

      You’d have to get them to say that, though. And then they wouldn’t. Say that.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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      01 month ago

      No, the American people voted in Donald Trump.

      Both the popular vote and the electoral college.

      America wanted him in.

      • JaggedRobotPubes
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        -51 month ago

        By a thin margin, yes.

        And only because “non-engagement” can’t run.

        Americans very much almost didn’t vote him in. Also a fact, and it paints a very different picture.