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[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Donald J. Trump got 312 electoral votes and approximately 77,303,568 popular votes (49.81%), while Kamala Harris received 226 electoral votes and approximately 75,019,230 popular votes (48.34%)

But sure lets bang on about how Americans are getting the economy they voted for πŸ₯΄

[–] obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That also doesn't count the lots of people that didn't vote because of disenfranchment or discrimination.

[–] echo 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you didn't vote then you voted for this.

[–] InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Love those who ignore the flat out voter suppression that occurs across the country, but go off. Edit: redundant words

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I had to wait in line for 4 hours to vote just to come home and realize I was going to have to survive a fascist hell hole for a minimum of 4 more years. I’m not going to thumb my nose at people that had to leave, they don’t make it easy.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Assuming Russia just never used any of the data from their 3+ previous US election hacks. And none of this is true: https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited

[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Great link, thanks for that. It's a good read. I was going to mention this aspect in my post above. I didn't want to go down that rabbit hole in case I would trigger the finger pointing and conspiracy theorist claims, but now we're here. This is incredible, and I have read other legitimate claims like this. I wish we could post sub-stack posts in a dedicated community somewhere on Lemmy, maybe its something I should think about.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

The US election system is very anti-democratic. And yet it never seems to be a big political issue there. Until that changes, the 50% reasonable people there will be held hostage by the 50% morons.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And those numbers are false. Sibce he clearly cheated in three swing states. Probably fucking nore but we will never know.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

It wasn't exactly brilliant, but they did back the progressive against the wall saying the elections were rigged against Maga laying a trap where progressives would have to defend the election system as fair. Then they cheated like the projecting little assholes they are.