Originally Posted By u/HumusSapien At 2025-04-12 03:03:15 PM | Source


    • merc
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      15 days ago

      Do you have any reason to think that non-voters would have broken differently than voters?

      Most non-voters probably saw that their state was strongly going either R or D, and correctly assumed their vote wasn’t going to make a difference.

      • GuyFawkes@midwest.social
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        Nope, all I have is the concrete fact that they didn’t even TRY. I’m also a D in a heavily R State who knew my vote wouldn’t matter, but it does at least affect the overall count show that no, Donnie doesn’t have “overwhelming support” or a “mandate”.

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          If that makes you feel better, that’s great. But, the rest of the world knows he does have a mandate, this is who America is now. People are just deluding themselves to try to feel better by blaming it on non-voters.

          • skulblaka
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            15 days ago

            The smallest margin of victory in American electoral history is a “mandate” now

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      15 days ago

      I blame many of them more than the Trumpers. Trump voters are just idiots, non-voters, however, are below the idiots. Fucking assholes.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    Recovering from MAGA will take a long time - and we’re only a couple months into this 4-year dumpster fire. But the way I see it Europe recovered from the Huns, so yeah bring it.

  • asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 days ago

    My silver lining take: tRump has done more in 2 months to bring down the US Empire than any of their real or imagined enemies in the last 80 years have.

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
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    Everyone who cast a vote for DJT and everyone who didn’t vote. (Close to 90 million, that’s more than the population of the 25 most populous cities in the United States put together!)