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[-] Letsdothisok@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

So many tears...

*liberal tears

[-] Charlxmagne@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's the issue with the FPTP voting system, it always eventually leads to a 2-party state like the US and the majority of the population votes for someone other than the winning party.

This happens in literally every country with the same voting system as the US.

[-] scifun@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago

Both times Trump won was when a woman was running against him. The only time he lost was to a white old man.

USA is just sexist and Americans better come to terms with it rather than making up random reasons.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago

Basically if Tim Walz was the presidential candidate he probably would have won.

[-] hal9000@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

This! Kamala is a black woman. She was never going to win. When asked if they would rather win or be right, they chose being right. They live on denial on how sexist and racist their country is.

[-] match@pawb.social 8 points 2 days ago

there wasn't really a primary system or anything to address this

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[-] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

Correlation is not causation. We elected Obama who was one of the youngest presidents in US history first term. Also he was Black. I'm not saying the country is sexist, but I am saying both the female candidates that made it the general election, ran on dog shit platforms of "more of the same"

[-] hikuro93@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

While your logic does have a point, and there's no shortage of sexists out there, I must also state that both Clinton and Harris were horrid candidates as well, and both followed a democrat president the people were starting to/were done with.

Not only that, but both times Trump preyed on what the people were desperate to hear: "Better living conditions, lower prices" and all that. This was mainly the illusion of choice between two evils, and they chose the one that seemed to be the lesser one. The one who appeared to be "more honest" and despite being a nepo-baby called out and criticized all other rich people.

The issue is the system itself, and the fact that voters choose their candidates like celebrities or their sports team. See Harris making her campaign way more about celebrity endorsement than commiting to actual societal issues. She was never gonna win like that, and even if she did, she would still be a bad president. Not worse for sure, now that we all are seeing current Trump starting all sorts of conflicts and trying to become a dictator, but still a bad president.

The US can elect a female president. But so far the options picked for that were absolutely horrid, and I know there's several good and competent female leaders who are both democrats and republicans. Sadly they have too much common sense or lean too much to the centre to be taken seriously by the ones who want to create a spectacle.

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[-] palencharizard@lemm.ee 24 points 2 days ago

This is misleading.

According to those stats, the majority of people voted for someone other than Harris as well.

The real takeaway here is large percentage of people that don't vote.

[-] daannii@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Or the large amount of uncounted votes

[-] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Harris isn't claiming a mandate.

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[-] sinnsykfinbart@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago

Those who didn't vote, who thought their vote didn't matter, that no matter which politician gets elected to whatever office.... they're complicit.

[-] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The only significantly statically impactful group of "non voters" is the population that was unable to or inconvenienced heavily by voting.

Meaning the major majority of voters that didn't vote were either unable to because of other obligations (work, childcare, etc) with a small subset of that being people that were no motivated enough to deal with the inconvenience of visiting a poll line (4hours in line) after a 10 hour shift.

These are the vast vast majority of people that did not show up. Beyond that an even smaller percentage was the "protest voters' that even if 100% of which went to Harris she still would have lost.

I guess I just want to say "in conclusion" that the vast majority of voters that didn't vote were giving you your Starbucks or your Taco Bell.

I think we should spend less time blaming voters and more time being critical of the politicians and party that gives zero reason for the working class to "risk" their shift for.

No one's gonna "risk a shift" for the policies and messaging that Harris communicated. You don't get people to "risk their shift" for voting for a lesser evil.

[-] ceiphas@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Sometimes i get the feeling that voting on a tuesday is working as expected: to keep working an poor people from voting...

Germany has voting per defintion only on sundays, and (at least where i live) the voting booths are everywhere. You can vote either per mail, or from 8:00 to 18:00 at a booth, and i never had to wait in a line to vote, and i'm in my 40s

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[-] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's something to keep in mind.

Don't alienate those 36.32%. I'm sure some of us have strong feelings about their choices, but at the end of the day they outnumber Democrats and Republicans each by quite a bit. If you want to see change you are going to have to convince some of them to join you. This goes for elections and this goes for revolutions.

[-] DTguess@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

Compulsory voting in Australia is looking good

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Australia has a pretty good preferential voting system too.

The only major problem with elections in Australia that comes to my mind is the way political advertising works. Truth in advertising laws do not apply to political ads, for fuck-knows what reason. And there's a lot of money sloshing around for the purpose of supporting the politicians who support certain groups. The media landscape isn't exactly an even playing field.

But the voting part itself is genuinely quite well done.

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[-] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 139 points 3 days ago

Also! They literally let someone hand out 250 million dollars, openly, and our “courts” gave it the go-ahead - even if it goes against some of the longest standing legal precedent regarding buying votes (done with booze back in the day).

This election wasn’t a thumb on the scale, it was the oligarchs mushroom-stamping humanity.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 40 points 3 days ago

Also, these oligarchs don't realize that they're going to be robbed just like the rest of us when the time comes. If they don't do exactly what trump and putin want, they'll either fall out of window or have to spend the rest of their lives hiding. These will be remembered as the good ol' days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_notable_Russians_since_2022

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 24 points 2 days ago

I need to mention that the reason why 20 million fewer voters voted is. Because of the massive voter suppression that was done prior to the 2024 election. So many people were purged from voters rolls and many polling places were closed it wasn't funny.

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 16 points 2 days ago

While I'm sure that was part of it, a lot of people didn't vote for other reasons as well. Someone I know who you would probably consider "left" didn't vote at all because of Harris supporting Israel (I'm aware trump is worse for Palestinians), and I know a bunch of other people I've spoken to online also didn't vote at all for the same reason.

Plus I suspect a lot of other previous Biden voters didn't vote at all for similar reasons, like possibly all party's are owned by the rich.

Bottom line, a class war is needed to get the rich in check.

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[-] dragonlobster@programming.dev 51 points 2 days ago

Your vote only matters in swing states. The whole electoral college thing is fucked.

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[-] Silar@infosec.pub 27 points 2 days ago

How gross it is, considering what was in the line that so many didn’t vote. Also I bet the duck he cheated.

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[-] lud@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago

In conclusion 68% let Trump win or directly voted for him.

[-] Darkmoon_UK@lemm.ee 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So 68.1% of the American public are complicit. Worse than I thought TBH. Fuck.

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[-] yournamehere@lemm.ee 23 points 2 days ago

pfff... he won twice. if americans would want a real democracy that wouldnt have happened.

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[-] caboose2006@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

I'll take whoever this "Did not vote" instead please

[-] AlbertSpangler@lemmings.world 88 points 3 days ago

...... So fucking what?

"Ooh, he hasn't got a mandate." Yeah, know what he has got?

CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT. And no intention of ever giving it up.

(Yes, I know, don't abandon hope, organise, and all that. But crap like this just reads like "it'll obviously work out fine just wait it out" shit. Which famously Does Not Fucking Work)

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago

Hitler got about 33% back when he started. He achieved his position by simply ignoring the law after that. Sounds familiar?

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[-] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

68.1% of US citizens are bloody idiots.

[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

How many of those who didn't vote were from the states where Democrats won?

How many were from swing states?

How many were from Red states?

In an electoral college based election these nuances matter.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 days ago

Not voting is not the same as not voting for Trump. Not voting is complying with other people's votes. If you don't live in a swing state then that's understandable but if you live in a swing state and didn't vote, you have allowed Trump to win this election.

I wonder what the percentage of not voters in swing states is. Surely it would be way lower since they have more incentive to vote right?

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[-] Stomata@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Why on earth these people didn't vote?

[-] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

When 43/50 states are already locked in and decided a lot of people don't bother. That's a huge reason for people not voting.

If elections were actually decided by popular vote you'd see more people voting. The electoral college is a voter suppression tool.

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[-] yoriaiko 13 points 2 days ago

"my vote won't change anything", "i don't like any of them", "that won't affect me", call leopards for those 36%

[-] splonglo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

American democracy and freedom are fucked. But I don't blame those 36% of non-voters. These people were INSPIRED to give up on politics.

It's the media environment. Political coverage fucking sucks by design. Left populism is too interesting to be given air time, too much of a threat to the people who fund the parties and own the media. Politics used to be interesting. Politicians used to say things, now they just run out the clock with white noise.

[-] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I mean no

In an election between Bush and Kerry (the guy who lost 2004 election) or something like that then yes. People can be annoyed or just too busy to vote.

This election was perfectly clear that the future of US democracy was at stake and more than 1/3 of the voters decided to not show up. They decided that they were fine not choosing and as such fine with either option. I mean even if the choice was between Trump and a dog, the dog should have won by a landslide. 4 years of nothing would have been miles better than the decades that US is going back.

This presidency is already catastrophic and it barely even started.

I don’t even know how the US and the world can handle 4 years of this shit at this pace.

[-] splonglo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

PERFECTLY CLEAR? They walked back calling them WEIRD, let alone FASCISTS! And the moment they win Biden is shaking hands and saying lets all get along! Where's the panic? Where's the urgency?

People do not know what's going on. They still don't. You have no appreciation for how much noise is drowning out the signal. If the Dems gave a shit about democracy they should have called Don a pedophile 1000 times every day of the campaign.

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[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fucking wrong. Every asshole who abstained from voting, voted for Trump. He received 60%. At the very least, that 30% didnt vote for someone else.

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[-] DelusionalCyberDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Let's be honest here, both parties are full of shit. During Biden term 3500 students had their visa revoked due to anti Zionist protests, let alone canary mission bullshit.

And do not forget about insider trading and that both parties are funded by private companies

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 34 points 3 days ago

It's so fucking infuriating that practically every election, if it were possible, "did not vote" would win the presidency.

We're always looking at some stupidly close, razor margins bullshit, when there's a MASSIVE group of people that unfortunately just couldn't possibly give a shit less....

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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago

If you didn't vote then you voted for the bad guy.

If you didn't vote you are just as bad as the MAGAniacs.

If you didn't vote you voted for Trump.

If you didn't vote you are responsible for the current situation.

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[-] Tedesche@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

As usual, apathy is the greatest ally of authoritarianism.

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[-] TranslateErr0r@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Stop this bs. Rules are set before the game begins.

[-] Foni@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Well, in 1933 when the NSPD came to power they had 43% of the seats in parliament (I haven't found the percentage of the total votes but I imagine it was much less). That did not prevent them from repeating the elections at the end of that year and getting more than 90%, you can imagine how.

Even a part of popular culture accepts that they came to power by winning elections and the German people feel and felt the shame that they came to power by democratic means, which is only half true.

I feel sorry for the American people, but they elected this team under the same rules of democracy as their previous presidents. To claim now that his election was not democratic is to distort the facts.

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[-] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

As a brit I have found it fascinating how American and British politics seem to mirror each other. This is exactly the same argument that was levelled against Brexit. The stats the TV showed was 51% vs 49% in favour of Brexit but only 60% of the country voted and with this teeny tiny majority of voters the Conservatives enacted a massive constitutional change and causes absolute havoc which we are still paying for today.

We've since voted out the party that caused it but it landed us with an ineffective centrist Labour party who are continuing the mistakes of the past and not appealing to the left in the slightest (sound familiar?). This government still has 4 more years left in power but unless they change tack then I am very worried that we will have a extreme right version of the Conservatives in power next election.

The problem is the First Past The Post voting system. It's not true democracy. It's weighted to the right. Two parties, both in the pocket of big business. One who says "Oh, we'd love to help all you poors but it's really not possible to increase taxes on the rich and invest in our country", and the other who says "you'll be poor but at least you're not gonna get deported or persecuted like those gay and brown people".

TLDR: Both the US and the UK need urgent electoral reform. Write to your representative. Make it an issue. Do not stop until it is a number one priority for these ghouls or they will keep fucking us.

Thank you for attending my Ted talk. Goodnight.

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[-] Legume5534@lemm.ee 28 points 3 days ago

If you didn't vote then you were fine with this outcome. The majority are ok with Trump winning.

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