• toomanypancakes@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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 year, 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 it 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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        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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        And despite that he still got millions of votes. Millions of Americans want this. We’re a country of terrible people.

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        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.