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The majority didn't vote at all.
Like in the Trolley problem, not making a choice is itself a choice.
About 36% of eligible voters didn't vote. That's not a majority. Can we be accurate with facts here?
They could at least stand behind the messaging from the campaign.
If you call someone a dangerous threat to democracy for a year, and then when they get elected you wish them well and act civil, it really undermines your point about the whole threat to democracy thing.
Exactly. I believe Trump truly is an existential threat to the world and American democracy. To Biden and Harris, it was just campaign jargon.
They are a threat because they will do what you want Biden to do.
Because you have no fight in you. Was MLK civil? More than Malcolm, maybe, but no he wasn't.
Bernie Sanders has more fight right now than anyone in the upper echelons of the DNC.
I didn't choose hitler 2.0, no. I find this complacency you have revolting.
The correct time to do something about Trump was 4 years ago after January 6th. He should be in prison on sedition.
The correct time to smile as you hand the keys over is never. And yet, that's what the democrats are doing.
No acknowledgment of their colossal failure,
no acknowledgment of their present unelectibility,
no acknowledgment of how hard things are about to be for people,
no leadership about what to do now that our government is owned by X.com,
no resistance.
I'm not asking for a second January 6th: do the democrats even care?
I'll try to remember this as the corpses of Trump's administration pile up.
Literally anything to rebuild public faith.
If you haven't seen it, this was Bernie Sander's response to Trump's victory given while Kamala Harris, our last hope, was on vacation.
The DNC is so beaurocratic, toothless, and boring that they lost to someone who holds the bible upside down.
And why? Because they don't believe in anything. They're soulless husks that amber about doing whatever their corporate donors tell them will sell to their demographics right now.
What should they do? I'd love to hear one of them present a single fucking idea. Even a bad one.
Blue states, round the national guard, project yourself as a safe haven for the would-be deported. Blue in the senate, obstruct and delay as much as possible. Pull the fire alarm, I don't know. The system has crumbled, act like it.
Anyway, I've been soapboxing for long enough. You have a good day, man.
If Lemmy had 'gold' like Reddit, man, I'd buy two for you.
Oh, thank you! I was wondering who was still reading, haha.
Apparently, you wrote the rule book and Biden and Harris are following it.
So you're an idiot.
Rude!
It's okay if your hot take isn't popular, don't take it out on everyone else though..
With effort and imagination, insults can be amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound.Please give us higher-quality insults, or no insults at all.
He's an idiot screeching for decorum during the fall of the Republic, he doesn't deserve better and coating an insult in wit doesn't change its nature or intent.
Holy hyperbole batman, your reading comprehension might need some work.
Oh, look. They're flocking.
The majority voted for Trump in a country with voter suppression, gerrymandering, and even terrorist threats against voters / poll workers. I don't know what to think of that statistic in light of... many exhausting decades of bullshit.
Hah can you imagine? I'm just dubious about Trump having a mandate.
yeah this stuff is so rediculous. What if they had warned? then the meme would go to the next goalpost or whatever.
A PLURALITY voted for Trump, NOT a majority. Don't help them with their propaganda
How many eligible voters didn't vote?
Because using the technically correct word is better and important, especially when dealing with lying, manipulating propagandists who will bully their way as much as possible.
Was it truly majority? And is it 100% certain there was no fraud?
I heard in finland's news there was somekind of arson attack at some point which destroyed bunch of votes, while the elections were still going but i have no idea how much. I dont think they would fabricate such news.
No evidence as in it has been investigated reliably and nothing was found or as in nothing has been done because there is no obvious evidence?
I just cant believe actual majority of americans would want that idiot in power.