• Troy@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I’m Canadian and cannot vote in the US election, even though it’ll affect us a lot (when a sleeping elephant rolls over…)

    However, it drives me nuts looking at US polls. Harris is ahead by 2.4 points on average, which translates to something like 5-6 million in popular vote. But due to the electoral college system, it’s still a tossup! 538 is running monte carlo simulations based on state-specific polling and margins of error, and Harris is only winning ~54% of the time. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

    So I say this kindly, as your northern neighbour, please please go vote :D

    We will likely have our own election in 2025 complete with buffoonery.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      As a fellow Canadian, I also cannot vote in the US election, but I support this message.

      To my American neighbors, please make a plan to vote.

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      6 months ago

      If y’all really care so much why don’t you have spy groups infiltrating our media to influence the election? Really shows who thinks we’re worth the time 😤

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        6 months ago

        See this is how Mother Russia shows she cares by funding dim tools like Tim Pool to spread their form of kleptocracy.

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        6 months ago

        Because we wouldn’t want you to do it to us.

        There’s this phrase, that I hate, that goes: good fences make good neighbours.

        I’d rather just be good neighbours.

        • Match!!@pawb.social
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          6 months ago

          because we wouldn’t want you to do it to us

          slides the entire Pentagon under a rug