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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But you don’t know who non voters would have voted for. A study of non voters in 2020 showed a near even split, so it’s nothing but pointless speculation to blame people who didn’t vote. And I say this as someone who actually supports compulsory voting. I just find it much more productive, and accurate, to lay blame on those who we do know, for sure, actually voted for this result.

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  • Lauchs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wait, this seems silly. You are in effect saying that it’s wrong to blame those who stayed home because some of them would have voted for trump? Like, we’d still blame those people too had they actually voted trumo.

    The blame isn’t just because you voted for trump it is because you didn’t try to stop him, which applies both to those who voted for him and those who didn’t vote.

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    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Those who blame the nonvoters for Trump winning are implying that had they voted, Trump would have lost. We cannot know that and I do not find it productive. Again, I actually am in favour of compulsory voting, so urging people to vote is a good thing that I’m very much for. But I’m not going to blame those who didn’t vote for Trump for Trump winning.

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      • Lauchs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Are you an llm? Most humans, instead of restating what they’ve already said, actually read the comment to which they are replying.

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  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If we look at how people tend to lean the independents have a slight left lean t’s typically 55/45%.

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