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rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 days ago60% of americans voted for this. Because deciding not to show up to the polls to vote against fascism is voting for it.
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.
The electoral college made 10 million voters who voted for biden in the 2020 elections sit home in 2024?
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.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago
How do you explain the ten million voters who had no problem voting for 2020 election but disappeared for 2024?
Lime66@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Because voting got harder for those people in that time. Because you know, the government usually does something in the span of four years
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 days ago
So voting got harder for democrats in the four years a democrat was president.