• CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    I’ve seen what it says elsewhere. It needs to be said.

    This is what some 200 million Americans voted for (or by inaction refused to vote against) because having a brown woman be president was worse than this. Each and every one of them should know what they voted for.

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      18 hours ago

      Nah. That’s a big exaggeration. There were not even a total of 200 million votes, let alone that many for one of the candidates.

      Trump got about 77.3 million votes. Harris got 75 million….

      People are tired of tired ass corporate donor candidates. This is absolutely the fault of the democrat and republican parties. Quit blaming the voters. Look up…. You’re so worried about the other voters instead of looking at who is in power… the problem is the wealthy and political establishment, they lost this election.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        16 hours ago

        I counted the people who could vote, but didn’t. I thought that was clear. If not… I counted the people who could vote, but didn’t. (It was also a very rough estimate that might be a ways off.) They were convinced not voting meant one, they couldn’t be blamed if we didn’t like the person who got elected. False: they had the power to swing it the other way and chose not to. And two, that one was at least “mostly” as bad as the other. In this case, not so. I don’t even think other Republican candidates would have been this bad, had they won (like McCain and Romney).

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          15 hours ago

          Nah man,

          I will not continue voting for the lesser of two evils. Done with that noise.

          Stop blaming voters and blame the shitty establishment politicians.

          • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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            4 hours ago

            I will not continue voting for the lesser of two evils. Done with that noise.

            then you will continue to endure the harm of the worse candidate. you’re never going to get the candidate that checks every box, that’s not how politics works.

            but thanks, your inability to comprehend harm reduction may mean no more need for votes for a long time.

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        16 hours ago

        If you didn’t vote for the half-black South Asian woman, you’re raciss! /s

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      21 hours ago

      Oh absolutely. Just reading it again is not something I would like to do multiple times in a day. And subjecting child sexual assault survivors to it everywhere can be a triggering event.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        16 hours ago

        Spoiler tag and a trigger/content warning takes care of that. Silence only helps the oppressors. Or in this case, abusers — though, both are really correct.