• kescusay@lemmy.worldM
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      3 months ago

      I try to take heart in the fact that the majority didn’t actually vote for him, but it’s cold comfort, considering so many couldn’t be bothered to vote at all.

      We’re kinda fucked.

      • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        The majority of people who actually voted did. Who knows what the rest really think, but at the very least they were fine with this.

        We’re mega fucked.

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          3 months ago

          Well ackshually! It was a plurality not majority. Not that it actually makes a difference…

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          3 months ago

          Still got less than 50%.

          He did get the highest percent, but under half of voters. Still fucking depressing, but as numbers were fully counted and confirmed his percentage steadily decreased.

          Still fucked though, yes.

      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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        If it helps (it won’t), voter suppression has been working overtime since like 2012. My ballot didn’t come until the 8th of November, and I couldn’t spring for a surprise voting day flight home. For more local citizens, things like making them wait six hours and banning people from providing water are effective, not because people don’t care, but because people are concerned with immediate survival, so they might have to leave the line to go to work.

      • pepperprepper@lemmy.world
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        He wants to bring the stock market down, at least until he is in office. It’s what he likes to use as a scoreboard. Since his move to easy federal deficit fell through, he needs to find othe means to be able to pump the market further into a bubble. Watch him change his tune as soon as he is in office. He will probably say, oh well Greenland and Panama decided to take a deal, so "Mission Successful!.. while he quietly releases J6ers and takes even more control of our politics behind the curtain.

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      3 months ago

      I’m sure people now see that it’s all Hezbollah behind the failed coup and Trump is the only one that can fight them! /s

    • IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      The people who voted for this don’t read the news because they have their heads up their asses, blissfully unaware what goes on in the world. And will blame the dems for anything bad in their life.

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        3 months ago

        His key to winning this time relied heavily on people who don’t pay attention and who don’t usually vote.

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      judging from the behaiivor of people on social media, everything from little kids to grown adults of both parent and grandparent age. people are fucking stupid and im not at all surprised, education failed, brain rot won. this is not surprising

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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        Surprise is qualitative. I was ready for this (left the country 3 years ago, still voted from abroad) but I was fully ready to have been wrong all this time. I’m not used to being this prescient, and it doesn’t bode well for the rest of what I think I need to be ready for.

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      3 months ago

      They didn’t. This isn’t a democracy. People didn’t have a choice to vote for.

      Very few people voted for trump.