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Calling this apathy is letting Nazis off easy. This isn’t apathy, this is a massive chunk of the US population willingly acting on this. Today is truly a tragedy.

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They’re no less at fault. Fascists were always going to vote. Non-voters had the power to decide. Self-titled “centrists” and “apoliticals”, or those who adopted a stupid moral high ground because of one thing that Harris did or did not say, made a choice that amounted to “I’m okay with the worse outcome”. They failed to vote against the worse outcome.

Fascism is a cancer that should be excised with prejudice. So is abstention. And Americans should hold them equally responsible for every harm and every life.

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Non-voters can turn fascist too. There’s no guarantee that if everyone voted, the results wouldn’t be the same.

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Except everything we know about voting in America disagrees with you

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I’m fully expecting a “night of the long knives” type of situation now. Hope to be wrong about it, but I haven’t been so far.

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