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Biden is withdrawing his broader student-loan-forgiveness plans that were set to cancel debt for over 38 million borrowers(www.businessinsider.com)

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Aarrodri@lemmy.world
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I mean… The country spoke… So why bother.

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Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org
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I really don’t like it when people say “The country spoke” like, excuse you, but I didn’t vote for Trump so don’t you dare assume that I did.

71 million people spoke out of the 334.9 million in America. 150 million americans did vote while 90 million didn’t.

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fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I don’t understand your numbers but yeah, I am not exactly happy about how things went down.

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Cataphract@lemmy.ml
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335 million is the population, 71 million voted for trump. You can extrapolate with 150 million voters and 90 million that didn’t , there are only 240 million of the US population that are eligible to vote (so near 100 million didn’t even have a chance to voice their opinion).

I’ve looked at the numbers before but can’t remember the specifics but it’s at least in the ball park if my memory serves me right.

edit: grammar

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orcrist@lemm.ee
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The tiny majority of voters. Not the country. Close? Not really.

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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All those eligible voters who didn’t bother to vote at all who make up the rest of the country spoke too. They said they didn’t give a shit.

So again, seems like a “why bother?” situation.

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Skates@feddit.nl
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That’s a great argument until you realize the rest of the country (the part that didn’t speak) literally couldn’t decide which is worse or just didn’t care. So they did speak, and what they said was “hwbennfswbebnsjdjbdbshdukabw”.

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Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org
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What still gets me is how there are Americans who’re still obliviously indecisive when they are presented, clearly, with one option being detrimentally worse than the other. And still can’t make up their minds.

“Uhhhhhhhhh dis guy has bad plans and uhhhhhhhhh I don’t know if they’re good or not. Wait, maybe…ummmmmmmm I…don’t know, I mean I guess? I don’t think struggling to make ends meet is that bad but I’m not sure…I don’t think I’ll have health care in the future if I go with this guy…I…I can’t decide!”

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