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Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today (lemmy.world)
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[+] -17 points 2 years ago (13 children)

No vote. No opinion.

He got the majority of votes. He got the majority of the electoral.

The majority of participating voters wanted this.

Just because you guys cannot fathom how anyone would want this doesn't mean this is the same panic inducing situation for them. The majority of politically active people in the United States of America wanted this to happen as evidence of the election we just held.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    No. He got a plurality of the votes. Not a majority.

    The majority of participating voters voted against him.

    How many times do you need that repeated to understand?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean, I'm sure you're right. What I don't understand is how that technicality is even relevant. Even if 40% of the people voted for this, does that not still mean you have a sick and dangerous population on your hands? We're talking about tens of millions of people that voted for a fascist regime.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    It means he doesn't have the popular mandate they keep claiming they do.

    But yes. Half of adults are functionally illiterate. 5th-6th grade reading levels. They can physically read the words, but will only grasp the most basic surface level meaning. Republicans' started attacking education decades ago. This is what they wrought.

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  • [+] -19 points 2 years ago (9 children)
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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Outdated data. The votes were not done being counted on November 10th. Trump got 49.8% to Harris' 48.3%

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Ah. Fair enough. Last time I had seen it it was more than 50% still. Well then by a technicality not a majority then. I do love a technically correct statement so I'll give you that one.

    Still. More people voted for this than didn't vote for this.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Still. More people voted for this than didn't vote for this.

    I don't want to pile on, but if less than 50% voted for this, then more than 50% voted against it. The people voting against it didn't vote for the same thing, but they did vote against this.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well if you love technicalities you should've realized that people who didn't vote at all for any reason also didn't vote for this. Technically.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not playing that game. Only people who voted get a say. Even if you give Kamala ALL the third party votes (which arguably the RFK votes would probably go to Trump) she still loses the popular vote and the election.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    You may want to take a look at this if you have time. It may look suspect because it's just some guy's blog with a stupid cartoon image at the top but the data is quite real. If you want you can scroll to the bottom first where the author gives his credentials. I wish he'd put that at the top.

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