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I'm so sick of reading this type of comment. Trump got 49.8% of the vote. That means Harris and 3rd party voters combined were a majority of voters. And so many people are disenfranchised here for BS reasons that I'm sure Trump would have lost if all the people who wanted to vote were able to.
I understand why foreigners would have a lot of hate for America, but please try to focus that hate on our elites, who set the rules for our sham democracy, propagandize the shit out of us via ownership of most of our media, and are responsible for our Imperialist crimes.
The average American gets virtually no say in what our government does to us or to the rest of the world.
That in itself is an harrowing statistic.
"Math is hard", eh? 🤌🏼
"If you count third party candidates who have absolutely no hope of winning, it turns out that Trump didn't win the popular vote in 2024. Sure, more people voted for him than voted for the perfectly normal democratic candidate, but if you add her votes to the votes for the Green party candidate, the Libertarian Party candidate, the Socialism and Liberation party candidate, and RFK Jr. Combined, they all got very slightly more votes than Trump. So, America isn't cooked."
No, it's only very slightly almost cooked. Nice.
I guess murican politics are fucked up (no news there), otherwise maybe the barely majority could've banded up and formed a government. Happened in Portugal a while back when the right was elected but had a minority, so the left got together and formed government instead.
This pretends that Harris wasn't a ghoul as well. See Gaza, immigration, militarism, etc.
America is a one party state, and in their typical extravagance, has two of them.
There are no institutional mechanisms in American politics to make that happen. We don't have a parliamentary system. (I wish we did).
Agreed
"The Epstein Class"
Not to mention that these "elites" don't respect borders, so properly identifying them as the issue and fixing it so they lose power/influence in your country, could have cascade effects, even in the originating country.
Because if you think America is isolated in our shitty politics, every other citizen from other countries are going to have a rude awakening when the technocrats/oligarchs have ruined or grow bored of the US and move on to ruin your country (see Venezuela, Palestine, or any country that signed a free trade agreement with us that are now getting hit with tariffs).
Their class solidarity is international, and so must ours be.
63% of US population voted. Less than half of that group voted for Harris. That means at least 68.5% (but really more) either did not vote for Harris to mitigate the risk of Trump or actively choose to vote for him.
Fuck them all. 31.5% of the population is worth a shit. And even then some of them are anti-socialist libs.... so I don't even like all of them either.
Also Georgia found evidence that musk rigged it.
68% of registered voters voted for Trump.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1k1dvv3/oc_us_presidential_election_results_as_percentage/
Stick to nursery rhymes, kiddo.
I assume you're counting the non votes as votes for Trump. Disingenuous at best.
Unless we're criticizing third party voters, of course.
It's absolutely not disingenuous. It's what happened.
Yep, since that's what they were.
Real quick. Quantify for me (since you seem to have a link for everything) how many of those people who didn't vote but were eligible lived in places where their district was gerrymandered to hell? Or where they live the state had engineered it to be impossible to vote (limiting voting locations (making sure the lines would be astronomical and the weather would do the work for them), preventing people from bussing people to voting offices. Limiting or completely removing the ability to vote by mail. I'll wait.
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