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Most of us can, and are also stunned by the dunbass other half of the population

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4 points

clearly it’s more than half…

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31 points

It’s not though. Voting is not mandatory and voter turnout in the US hovers only around 35-40% of the eligible population, on the high side.

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67 points

The non-voters are also dumb.

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3 points

thus?

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14 points

Nope, 1/3 of the population never votes. That’s around 100 million people. And neither party has close to 50% of the US population, so it doesn’t come down to a little more than half no matter who wins.

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3 points

And the people that don’t vote don’t matter cause they don’t care either way.

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-41 points

You could be smart enough to say “fuck you” to the mainstream Dem candidates early in the campaign.

The dumbass other half fears “the establishment” to the degree of going to dotards, coachfuckers and antivaxxers. Removing “the establishment” from your side could make them fear those more.

So the part about dumb, dumb motherfuckers can be arguably addressed to almost all of you, my cowboy friends.

Especially those saying that “the perfect is the enemy of the good” and people should vote for Harris instead of someone like Bernie or someone like Larry Lessig or who not.

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Congratulations your disingenuous bullshit helped destroy America

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-10 points
  1. I’m not an American voter.

  2. My bullshit before the election usually involved saying that you still have to vote for Harris.

  3. I’d say the media bullshit about the support of candidates, that communicated the wrong picture to Americans deciding whether to vote, has contributed much more than anything I ever wrote.

  4. No reason to panic. It’s just 4 more years, and then another election. Usually when someone promises you massacres and other bad things, you believe them, but not in this case - you’ve elected people who’ve never followed up on their promises.

  5. I live in Russia, so you had it coming for the older disingenuous bullshit about Russia being “just an imperfect democracy” and Putin being better than some imagined unholy alliance of communists and neo-Nazis.

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Na you did that just fine but supporting harris do blindly she wouldn’t move her policy positions.

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You know who doesn’t have problems getting behind a candidate? The right wing. In a first past the post system, this is the best we can do until reforms occur. People have been calling for reforms, but the people who can make the changes are the ones who benefit from the system. So what would you have us do? The founding fathers made a really undemocratic system and the right wing exploits it to the fullest extent possible. Short of balkanization (which is probably coming soon), I’m really not sure what we could have done differently. Civil wars aren’t fun for anyone involved.

So no my non-cowboy friend, it’s not all of us. Lots of people have fought and died and struggled and protested for a better system just for the powers that be to ignore them. 1/3rd of the country doesn’t vote. The other 1/3rd actively wants to put my family in a death camp, and 1/3rd of us do what we can with what we have.

See you in Germany. So fucking done with the USA.

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The founding fathers made a system reliant on most of the voters being literate landowners.

It kinda worked in such a situation, because it was (among those voters) relatively egalitarian.

It was also supported by functional free press.

Now things have changed to the point where mass media are not very good, censorship is a real problem, even if it’s not by the government, and, ahem, political mechanisms have gotten a bit rusty even compared to 50s.

Isn’t Canada closer?..

Or French Guiana. It’s EU, and at the same time you get tropical beaches and wonderful nature.

Or one of the Scandinavian countries.

I mean, if you want Germany, then fine.

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45 points

*Slightly less than half most of us can, and are stunned by the dumbass other half of the population FTFY

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45 points

Roughly 1/3 of the voting age population.

About 1/3rd of the voting age population do not vote.

We’re outnumbered 2:1

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5 points

Sure but a lot didn’t care. Less voters this time Trump votes stayed steady so. Lots of people who voted Biden where ok with Trump getting in.

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Ironically I think you meant to type “dumbass” while criticizing reading comprehension.

I get it, probably on mobile, but I couldn’t NOT reply.

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28 points

…as was the case in 1933 Germany…

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