About 30% of Americans did.
This isn’t an “America bad” situation as much as an “Oh fuck, capitalism just took down America, who is it coming for next?” situation.
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meliaesc@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThe difference is Americans actively voted for their current situation
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
60% of americans voted for this. Because deciding not to show up to the polls to vote against fascism is voting for it.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Are you aware of how difficult/impossible it is for many Americans to vote? The GOP has dedicated decades to disenfranchising voters, and rigging elections via gerrymandering.
That’s why this wasn’t even close… He won by a landslide, despite the popular vote being razor-thin. He also won the last election in 2016 despite the popular vote being lost.
My country is severely fucked up at a governmental level.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
And over decades, many of you didn’t care enough to vote those stains out. Here you reap the harvest of decades of apathy, laziness, performative “patriotism” and religion. Trump was an entirely predictable circumstance.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
How do you explain the ten million voters who had no problem voting for 2020 election but disappeared for 2024?
chunes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I see this misconception all over the place and I can only assume it stems from not understanding the electoral college.
You underestimate how many people live in swing states.
Every non-voter who lives in California voted for Kamala. All of the states EC votes went to her.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
The electoral college made 10 million voters who voted for biden in the 2020 elections sit home in 2024?
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not that 60% was “okay with fascism.”
It’s that “60% of people have embraced toxic nihilism.” Shaped from years of scrolling, overdosing on dopamine, reading and participating in contentious debates on the internet that never lead to an outcome, reading clickbait headlines that stopped making sense years ago, going home and sitting in front of a monitor instead of going out with friends to hang out and just talk about life, of eating the most addictive foods and getting all manner of drugs over the counter to alter their moods, their feelings, their perceptions.
We have everything to placate us and make us happy and it’s killing everyone.
Many years ago I once sat with a local captain (like a constable) of a village in Southeast Asia. We were drinking gin and looking at the stars and he said “You know why gin here is cheap? And sold on every corner? Because as long as everyone makes their number one priority at the end of the day to come home and get drunk, you won’t get people coming together and forming groups, of protesting the injustices, of changing the system” he said with a smile as he tossed back another shot.
Since then I’ve actually pursued this and have found evidence over and over how capital uses numbing agents to keep populations subdued, from the overt tactics well recorded and planned like the use of Opium in China, all the way through more modern places like Russia and vodka. And it works. And we have a lot more numbing agents around us now than just ingestible substances.
In places with fewer numbing agents, people are still having kids, still throwing parties and looking forward to poker every night with their grown siblings, of building a new barn or getting together to open a new store, or instead of spending 12 hours a day getting better at Marvel Rivals, they’re playing basketball. Sure it happens here still, but it’s in such radical decline that we have a dictator in charge and nobody cares. This is nihilism and don’t mistake it for something else because that’s exactly what the numbing agents want you to say.
paperazzi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Capitalism isn’t coming for anyone else because of limitations that have been put on it by the peoples governments in other countries.
kuhli@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
We had many of those same limitations after the great depression. Do not overestimate your ability to manage capitalism
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
lol.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
All of us voted for this? Every American? The ignorance I see sometimes here on Lemmy is astounding sometimes…
A graph showing razor-tgin margins for Trump’s 2024 victory
rylock@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
No one said all. Don’t accuse others of ignorance when your reading comprehension is this bad. When people say Americans voted for this, it’s because they don’t let the 39% of non-voters off the hook for their passivity. Voting is a duty and their negligence led to this outcome.
KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This is your defence? LOL
Only 29.8% of Americans cared enough to stop a known criminal with an authoritarian bent become the last president you’ll ever have?
31% wanted it,
1.1% voted for someone they knew wouldn’t win.
38.1% don’t give a shit what happens. Possibly these people were purged from voter rolls and had their vote stolen. But knowing Americans, I’d happen to guess that percent is well below .5% of the non-voter segment.
Pathetic.
Soulg@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Remember, it’s Americans that are stupid.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
To be fair, a lot of Americans are very stupid. Living here is extremely frustrating at times…
The larger issue is that many Americans are selfish and cruel, though. That’s why getting sick once can ruin our lives, and why working in this country can often be inhumane and awful.
The pervasive lie here is that everyone makes it if they work hard. Good people believe this, and it’s a big part of what’s destroying us as a country.