• @Nuke_the_whales
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    Even the far left is stupid in America. They’re supposed to be the educated ones. But instead of doing their civic duty, they stayed home. And you can blame it on Democrats all you like, but it’s your duty to go vote, no matter who you vote for. The turnout this election was pathetic.

    I don’t understand how these people are going to complain now for the next 4 years, when they didn’t even want to take part.

    • @TrickDacy
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      2917 days ago

      It is absolutely fucking infuriating how many people disagree with your assessment here but you are absolutely 100% right as fuck.

        • @Hazor
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          416 days ago

          90 years ago the entire US population was less than that 140 million, let alone eligible voters. Percentage of eligible voters would make a better argument than absolute numbers when you’re comparing over time.

          That said, 140m versus 158m is a huge drop. An astonishing drop. The final total could still amount to a >10% reduction in turnout, despite a slight increase in the number of eligible voters. I don’t understand how that could be viewed as not sad, regardless of who you vote for.

          • @[email protected]
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            116 days ago

            Ok, a few things. This is also using the percent of eligible voters and shows about the expected turn out if not higher then normal. And more importantly 140 million is not the final number in fact some places have stated “National turnout has been estimated at 64.5 percent this year, with around 158 million ballots counted out of the 245 million eligible voters.”

            I am sorry that this is not the easy target of blame people clearly want it to be.

    • azuth
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      1216 days ago

      She got 14 millions less votes than Biden.I doubt there are even 10 million far leftists in the USA.

    • @abbotsbury
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      417 days ago

      But instead of doing their civic duty, they stayed home

      Do you have anything to back this up, or is this typical Democrat blaming people they never tried to appeal to?

        • @ThatOneKrazyKaptain
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          2020 is not the fucking baseline, this was above average, great even. 2020 was the highest turnout since Reconstruction you can’t rely on that to stick

          • @[email protected]
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            215 days ago

            Honestly it should be. If people could find ways to vote during a pandemic, they should be able to do it without one. That we’ve regressed is a serious issue

            • lad
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              115 days ago

              Am I right in my understanding that the ‘super high’ turnout of 2020 was still less than 50% of eligible voters? That really looks like maybe a minimum turnout threshold should exist :(

        • @[email protected]
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          116 days ago

          You mean the abysmal (checks notes) second highest turn out since 1932? The turnout whose numbers are still as of right now being counted? That turnout?

      • @Warl0k3
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        Good chance there isn’t going to be a next time, dude. It’s hard not sounding hyperbolic when saying things like “its the end of the world” but the next four years were CRITICAL to climate change, and we’ve voted to pour even more gas all over it. We don’t even have violent resistance to fall back on. The ‘progressives’ who stayed home this election because they couldnt hold their nose and vote for harris? Have damned us all. They’re just as much to blame for whats about to happen as the pathetic campaign harris was running.

        It doesn’t matter if we’re fracturing the left. There was never any unity there in the first place.

        • @abbotsbury
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          The ‘progressives’ who stayed home this election because they couldnt hold their nose and vote for harris? Have damned us all.

          I think it was the Trump voters that did that, actually.

            • @abbotsbury
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              216 days ago

              And the electorate (well, active electorate) is majority Trump voters

      • @lemonmelon
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        717 days ago

        The opinion of a shit starter and flame fanner is not needed.

    • @blazera
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      -4217 days ago

      Democrats didnt want people voting. This was the year of fighting against ballot access. They directly disenfranchised so many people.