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[-] DTguess@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

Compulsory voting in Australia is looking good

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[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Clearly the rightful president is Did Not Vote.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Americans should finally demand a not so stupid voting system
And maybe have 7 presidents

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[-] Charlxmagne@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

[-] caboose2006@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

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

[-] splonglo@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months 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 3 months 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.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Hi, OP. I just want to let you know that I appreciate the sentiment you're trying to express in this meme, but I also kinda low-key hate you for:

  1. using a title that sullies the good name of Maxwell Smart by making me associate his catch-phrase with Trump, and
  2. using an ellipsis to weakly trail off when you should've used an exclamation point to finish strong instead.
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[-] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

Not a mandate, but voter's apathetic acceptance.

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 8 points 3 months ago

Let's get a count of all of the votes that were tossed due to targeted voter registration purges.

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[-] TranslateErr0r@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Stomata@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Why on earth these people didn't vote?

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[-] DelusionalCyberDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months 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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[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Sounds like we need to run someone some of those 36% would be willing to vote for. Voting against the other isn't working anymore.

[-] butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

No. The answer was even more centrists and shitting on progressives even harder. Don't worry, it'll definitely work next election, trust me.

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[-] Foni@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months 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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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

This is true of every election except maybe one.

Nobody always wins. The "winner" is always elected by a tiny minority. It's a fundamentally corrupt system. Always has been. Literally concocted by genocidal slavers.

[-] guy@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago

Well the OG Nazis only got about 30% so I'd say he's justified to a dictatorship

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