• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    In 2020 there were just under 2mil independent voters

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election

    So 1mil were added

    The Dems had 11million votes less than what they got in 2020, the Republicans had 5mil less

    We know Democrats don’t change to Republicans, and Republicans very rarely change to Democrats.

    (Maybe) the 1mil came from democrat protesters, more likely they came from Republicans who don’t want to vote Democrat.

    So either way the protest votes were still a drop in the bucket compared to the other 10million white men/women and hispanic men we can see from the shifts in voter demographics.

    Im sorry you don’t like the data I’m observing but we live in a deeply bigoted country and it’s better to try to engage with that and fix it instead of feeling attacked.

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      19 hours ago

      Again… 90 million people didn’t vote at all. It’s safe to assume a large portion of them are a result of single issue non-voting protests.

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            16 hours ago

            Ok but you understand how you just moved the goalposts like 4 times right?

            You can delusionally hate poor people because of a strawman you hallucinated, it’s a free country for now.

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              15 hours ago

              Poor people? See, you’re creating the straw man here, as you brought that up. Not me. This has nothing to do with poor people aside from your attempt to set up your little gotcha moment.

              It’s not working.

              And the goalposts were never there to begin with because this isn’t a fucking game.

              Stay on topic or walk away.