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Experts alarmed by Trumps’ crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’
(www.theguardian.com)
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"America" did not. I'm sick of these articles making it sound like he won big. He didn't. 1.43% . The smallest margin of victory in 25 years.
His idiot followers have no critical thinking skills and voted for all the lies he told them which they are up. They're going to be absolutely devastated under his presidency.
Don't forget all the qualified people who didn't vote at all, and instead just said "Meh, it's fine."
Not voting is a choice.
True, although personally I think "America didn't give enough of a shit to do even the bare minimum of voting" is no less damning.
That is precisely what I meant.
They're not going to be devastated. No matter how much worse off they will become, they will think they are doing better because the mainstream media of Fox and OAN will tell them they are doing better than ever.
They were fighting for toilet paper under Trump.
They won't be devastated. They'll continue to watch the same "news" that will tell them how great the country is doing no matter what happens... and then continue to say how awful the Democrats are, and to blame them for individual problems.
A plurality of Americans voted for him. It wasn't even EC shenanigans this time. It wasn't a huge margin, no, but more Americans who voted wanted him than any other candidate.
This is not the right use of the word "plurality". A "plurality" voted for Harris as well. Stop trying to disguise what you're saying.
Trump barely one, and it may have had to do with small segments voting in kind. It was not a landslide nor mandate.
Trump: 77,303,568
Harris: 75,019,230
Others: 2,877,973
75,019,230 + 2,877,973 = 77,897,203
Trump won a plurality of votes. No, it was not a landslide or a mandate, and I never said it was.
A "plurality" is two, friend.
Words can have more than one definition, friend, and "plurality" has a specific one when referring to voting. I literally linked which definition I'm using.
They're called "synonyms", and the way you're using this word is not one.
That's not what a synonym is at all. I'm not sure if you're a troll or just supremely misinformed. I'm going to settle on troll.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/synonym
TF are you confused about?
"Polite" and "cordial" are synonyms. They're two different words that mean the same thing, as your linked definition helpfully says.
"Fire" as in "conflagration" and "fire" as in "to terminate someone from employment" are homonyms. They're two words that are spelled and pronounced the same with different meanings. So it goes with "plurality" having more than one definition.
Friend, you're just flat fucking wrong. Admit it and back instead of being pathetic with the "akshually" bullshit. You used it wrong. Deal.
"Plurality" is more than one. "Majority" is the mass of a group. Your initial comment (which you've edited) was to suggest that "ALL THE PEOPLE VOTED FOR THIS" and this is what is happening.
In actuality, less than 2% of the majority were even in favor of this asshole. You're trying to specifically inflate the reality of what is going on by verbiage alone, which is, yes, pathetic, but also just fucking sad because you're continuing this thread instead of simply shutting the fuck up, which you should have done from the outset.
Let's be very clear that corporate news has failed so spectacularly, they can not recover from this. They will not change, and we shouldn't give them any benefit of doubt.
You will need to find a different way of getting the news than from CNN / NBC / NYT or whatever it used to be in the before-times.