• Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    he says his decision was knuckle-based. and he'd do it again

    “I voted for Trump all three times. Yep. I did,” he admits. “But I literally was in the voting booth. And I rapped my knuckles and the Trump one hurt more, and that was the one that I voted for. Because it was just, it was so disgusting and, and I hate to say that, but that’s literally how I made that choice.”

    Even after losing his business to Trump’s policies, he stands by his vote: “Given the two people running, regardless of what they said on the campaign trail, I would’ve voted for President Trump again.”

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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      His bottom statement is more relevant. He gave zero shits about policy, party, or politics, he was just focused on the people running.
      One a black woman former prosecutor. One a corrupt white male felon.
      He said he was always going to vote for the latter.

      Serves the dumb cunt right.

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      Wild. That’s fucking wild. I’m out here putting thought into my vote and this cunt is rattling his knuckles. We are cooked as a species.

        • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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          Hungarian here, my mother’s boyfriend is still a Fidesz supporter after losing his business due to losing some tax exemptions. Long story short: it’s cheaper to run a single person LLC than to be self-employed, because our politicians in the nineties totally ate the propaganda, that “CEOs once were very hard working workers, just got promoted for their hard work to be CEOs”. He however did not had the money to save up for an LLC.

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        The biggest problem with voting is that each voter’s own choice has a huge externality relative to average personal consequences. So selfish people have an incentive to vote with their tribe and not put any further thought into it.

        You’re being “irrationally” altruistic by actually considering multiple candidates. As bad as losing his business is, this schmuck was more afraid of being ostracized by his fascist peers.

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      Maybe not everyone does deserve and equal vote in a democracy actually. Or in the case of America his is literally worth more than mine because of where he lives -_-.