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Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

So how much longer before we get pissed enough to start doing something about it?

Says the guy making no note of anything he is doing about it.

The people in power aren’t going to do anything about it because they want it this way.

Half the regular people also want it this way

Of the people left, somewhere around 50% don’t care either way.

And of the last people left who do care, probably at least half of those aren’t doing anything < this is presumably where you are.

You can’t just sit around and expect everyone else to be as angry or angrier than you and expect everything to work out because THEY’LL do something about it.

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Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Half the regular people also want it this way

Only 28% of adults voted for this and lots of Trump voters just wanted the cheaper groceries that Trump promised them (he lied).

So please don’t spread the lie that Trump has majority support or any kind of mandate. He doesn’t. Over a 100 million people didn’t bother to vote because they have no faith or hope that voting can improve their lives. They aren’t wrong. At best, electing Democrats is just a stay of execution.

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- JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Only 28% of adults voted for this
  
  Uh, isn’t that how American elections work? It’s decided based on the proportion of people who voted, not on the proportion of all adults. Trump won the popular vote 49.9% to 48.3% with the second highest number of votes in U.S. history. I don’t think any democracy divides votes by the total number of adults. How would that even work?
  
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  - Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It does mean that not much more than 28% of the adult population support him though.
    
    So he’s enacting all these democracy eroding changes for techno-authoitirians/fuedalists off of less than 1/3rd of the US’s population’s support.
    
    Elections don’t care, nor does policy. But it is closer to 1/4 than 1/2 of people who can even begin to be said as his supporters. Despite what the media cycle might imply.
    
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StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You can’t really assume people aren’t organizing themselves just from a post like that. Its also bad for opsec to just post what you are up to online. Plenty of people are, there just aren’t enough people as people are stuck in the mindset that the systems haven’t collapsed yet so there is no need to build up a safety net.

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billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I said “we” dumbass.

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