Comment on Controversial question

• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And 40% didn’t think it was important enough to even vote

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’ve no idea why those voters didn’t vote. Disenfranchisement has been turned to 11

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Actually yes, a majority. Trump lost popular vote in 2016 but won it in 2024.

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    49.9% isn’t a majority. It’s a plurality.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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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      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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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      • earphone843@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The definition of majority is a percentage over 50%.

        49.8% is less than 50%

        I’m sorry if this is a difficult concept to grasp.

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