Comment on Some people have it worse

• carrion0409@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I voted Harris so no I didnt vote for this.

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  • Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Then you are, of course, allowed to complain.

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  • Aux@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You as a nation voted for this. Enjoy the ride!

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• gleb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  no, not all of us did. it just so happens that morons yell the loudest

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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Either people voted against him, for him, or abstained from voting (implicitly agreeing with whatever decision the majority made).

    The last two groups there, vastly outweighed the first one in this election.

    You’re right, not everyone wanted this… But that’s how democracy is. You vote and, at least in theory, the person that the most people vote for (believe in/agree with), is then made president.

    By definition, democracy will always have people who didn’t vote for the current government.

    All I’m saying is that either by action (voting for Trump) or inaction (not voting), a majority decided that he should become president.

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Right but you didn’t say that. You said “you voted for this”, as if Americans are some monolithic bloc with equal responsibility for the current state of affairs. If you tell me that I, an American, deserve the current administration because I voted for it, you are just completely, literally wrong. I, and 75 million other people, voted for Harris.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You dug your bed, now lie in it ?

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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    More or Less.

    Personally I blame the absentee voters. People who could have voted, but didn’t, and by not voting, indirectly supported Trump in winning the election.

    Unless there’s a serious shake up of how things work in the USA, there’s shit all that can be done about it now, since getting him out of office requires that the people near the top (senators/Congress/whatever) need to take action in indict him and start the process of ejecting him from office, but then they’ll be left with the current VP, and I’m not sure that’s better.

    Either way, nobody at the top is taking action against Trump, so the whole thing is moot. They have grounds, but they are not willing to do it.

    GG. RIP the USA.

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• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Assuming you meant “voted”:

  No, I and many others didn’t, actually, maybe learn how our voting system works before throwing gover half the country into a bus with less than half the country

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  • Aux@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Everyone knows how your system works, especially your politicians. You can’t blame your voting system for your decisions.

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Everyone knows how your system works

      Clearly not

      You can’t blame your voting system for your decisions

      Case in point

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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think you mean “over”. (Thanks, I make many typos, just returning the favor)

    And… Didn’t Trump get the popular vote this time around? So more there were more voters for Trump than anyone else?

    Idk. I don’t live there but I know your voting system well enough… Since everyone wants to talk about it, apparently.

    The fact that he won, even by a small amount, which… In this case, he won by more than a small amount, is the point. You and your fellow Americans knew what you were signing up for, and you knew what he was saying he will do this time around. None of this was a surprise. He’s been talking deportation and tariffs for over a year. Now that they’re here, suddenly a lot of people are regretting their decisions… Again, this was not a surprise. They voted for this and yet take issue when this exact thing happens.

    There may be many people who didn’t vote that could have, who would have voted against Trump, but the fact is, by not voting, you are implicitly agreeing with whatever decision is made by your fellow citizens. Putting the decision in their hands. As someone once said “if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

    Either you voted for it, you were okay with letting others decide and you’re complicit, or, you were part of the minority of people who voted against Trump. One of these three things is true for each and every American.

    I’m sorry, but this is what the majority of the people in your country wanted.

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I know your voting system well enough

      The rest of your comment shows that to be untrue, especially:

      but the fact is, by not voting, you are implicitly agreeing with whatever decision is made by your fellow citizens

      You’re pinning it on the federal level, but people choose to vote or not on the state level. Californians who didn’t vote had their vote go to Kamala by your logic, not Trump. Follow that through and you get more votes “for” the Dems than the repubs

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