• ameancow@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      About 30% of Americans did, and that’s the segment least representative of what average people actually want.

      This isn’t an “America bad” situation as much as an “Oh fuck, capitalism just took down America, who is it coming for next?” situation.

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        9 hours ago

        60% of americans voted for this. Because deciding not to show up to the polls to vote against fascism is voting for it.

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          Are you aware of how difficult/impossible it is for many Americans to vote? The GOP has dedicated decades to disenfranchising voters, and rigging elections via gerrymandering.

          That’s why this wasn’t even close… He won by a landslide, despite the popular vote being razor-thin. He also won the last election in 2016 despite the popular vote being lost.

          My country is severely fucked up at a governmental level.

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            And over decades, many of you didn’t care enough to vote those stains out. Here you reap the harvest of decades of apathy, laziness, performative “patriotism” and religion. Trump was an entirely predictable circumstance.

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            6 hours ago

            How do you explain the ten million voters who had no problem voting for 2020 election but disappeared for 2024?

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              Because voting got harder for those people in that time. Because you know, the government usually does something in the span of four years

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                  Because states continued to gerrymander with essentially no oversight except for one supreme court ruling.

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                  Wow your ignorance is astonishing. I’m not even an American and I can tell you that just because there was a Democrat in the Whitehouse doesn’t mean he controls the election. It’s written pretty plainly that the states are responsible for the election. The federal government just sets out requirements, so Biden had very little effect on the voter lists. State governors have much more influence on who votes and yes, voting did get harder between 2020 and 2024.

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                    11 billion people disappeared off the coast of alaska because state governers shipped them away to die.

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        Capitalism isn’t coming for anyone else because of limitations that have been put on it by the peoples governments in other countries.

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          We had many of those same limitations after the great depression. Do not overestimate your ability to manage capitalism

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        This is your defence? LOL

        Only 29.8% of Americans cared enough to stop a known criminal with an authoritarian bent become the last president you’ll ever have.

        31% wanted it.

        1.1% voted for someone they knew wouldn’t win.

        38.1% don’t give a shit what happens. Possibly these people were purged from voter rolls and had their vote stolen. But knowing Americans, I’d happen to guess that percent is well below .5% of the non-voter segment.

        Pathetic.

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        No one said all. Don’t accuse others of ignorance when your reading comprehension is this bad. When people say Americans voted for this, it’s because they don’t let the 38% of non-voters off the hook for their passivity. Voting is a duty and their negligence led to this outcome.

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          To be fair, a lot of Americans are very stupid. Living here is extremely frustrating at times…

          The larger issue is that many Americans are selfish and cruel, though. That’s why getting sick once can ruin our lives, and why working in this country can often be inhumane and awful.

          The pervasive lie here is that everyone makes it if they work hard. Good people believe this, and it’s a big part of what’s destroying us as a country.