• Sunshine@piefed.caOPM
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      77.3m american voters directly cast their ballot for Donald Trump in 2024. That’s hardly half.

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        77M of 155M or 49%, about half.

        You can extrapolate that the voting population approximately represents the non-voting population. Or, if you are a prick, you can say that non-voters didn’t want this but refrained from voting and are therefore to blame, in which case they still chose this.

        America has always been a racists, bigoted, sexist, right-wing playground. The only thing that has changed is that now they don’t have to hide it.

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          77M of 155M or 49%, about half.

          That’s not half of ordinary Americans that’s those who voted within the turnout.

          America has always been a racists, bigoted, sexist, right-wing playground. The only thing that has changed is that now they don’t have to hide it.

          The 13 colonies was vastly different from the modern 50 states.

          You shouldn’t paint the various time periods in American history the same broad brush.

          America was not the same as it is today. FDR was magnitudes of a better man than Donald Trump ever was. Not to mention the populace’s beliefs have evolved over time.

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        77M voted for this. those who did not vote, voted for this as well, by not voting. only 1/3 of them voted against it

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              77/300 = 26%

              Edit: looked it up. US pop in 2024 was about 340M. So 77/340 = 23%

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                  That’s an abysmal low turnout of 64.1%, first-past-the-post screwed America once again.

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                  You didn’t say voters, you said Americans. You are trying to say something about all Americans, it seems.

                  I will ask again: where are you moving the goalposts to next?

                  Edit: for clarity on why I am responding: a very small percentage of Americans wanted this. Our electoral system is shit. When you say a large percentage of Americans wanted this you are not only incorrect, but you are giving a mandate to a man who doesn’t have one.

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                    I didn’t say anything to you previously about this topic. YOU SAID

                    There are over 300M Americans. How many voted for this?

                    I answered your question and corrected your math. How many VOTED for this.

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                    Yup, first-past-the-post, red states purging votes, voter intimidation, corporate media and the electoral college nannied Donald Trump into power a second time.

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                Did you account for under 18s, non-citizens, or others disqualified from voting? How does that match with only ~155m votes cast?

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                  YOU said Americans. You didn’t say voters, you didn’t say adults, you didn’t qualify anything.

                  See my edit above if you are still wanting to argue this.