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    1 month ago

    You say the larger of the two, but the majority of the USA voted for fascism and an absurd number of people just stayed home. It’s hard to grow a resistance when you simultaneously believe the simple folk are getting exactly what they deserve and asked for.

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      I’m not sure the majority voted for Trump considering all the election interference and Elon Musk’s fuckery.

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      It’s hard to grow a resistance when you simultaneously believe the simple folk are getting exactly what they deserve and asked for.

      It really shouldn’t be since that’s just the beginning, they’ll be coming for everyone that says a single negative thing about the king and his cronies.

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      Not even a majority of voters, let alone a majority of Americans. Just about 30% of adults in the US voted for trump. We still outnumber them.

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        Actually yes, a majority. Trump lost popular vote in 2016 but won it in 2024. IMO everyone eligible who stayed home is just as much complicit with Trump.

        More specifically the number of Trump voters barely increased, but the number of people who voted for Kamala was millions less than those who voted for Biden.

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            Trump: 49.8% of popular vote (77,302,580 votes)

            Harris 48.3% of popular vote (75,017,613 votes)

            He won the majority, unless you’re counting spoiled ballots that accomplished fuck all against empowering dictatorship.

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              Define words however you want, that doesn’t make it true. A majority is 50%+1. Anything less is a plurality. More people voted for someone other than Trump than those who voted for him.

              Beside the point, the original claim was a majority of Americans, and that isn’t even close to a majority anyways. Even with your funny definitions.

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      The same people who have historically bankrolled and controlled Republicans also run the Democrats. It’s kinda hard to “fight the system” when the oligarchs are the system.

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        Then you would agree we should remove money from politics and…

        Oh! Whats this? The DNC passed campaign finance limits in 2002 which were overturned by the conservative SCOTUS in 2010 “Citizens United” decision? Huh, wow, thats crazy. Have any Dems talked about this recently? All of them? All the time? Neat.

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          So what you are saying is that the oligarchs rule the system and your solution is to continue voting in that same system in which you are being ruled?

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            You’re going to sit there and “both-sides” in the face of one side clearly fighting against oligarchy and one side clearly fighting for.

            You’re going to pretend its all the same while Republicans, who created a deficit by cutting taxes for the rich and only the rich, are tryng to pass a budget that will remove 79 Million citizens health coverage a d defund hospitals.

            You’re barely even human.

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              The same socioeconomic class has been continuously the main benefactor of America economic policy for 50 years regardless of which party is in charge. Idk what more proof you require to accept the oligarchs run the system but you believe whatever you need to to make you feel safe and secure.