• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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      12 days ago

      Nah, if “None of the above” was a candidate, it would’ve won the election.

      So americans don’t really want a president, just an empty podium.

      • @YoFrodo
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        61 day ago

        Not voting just meant that they were fine with whatever the majority wanted. Like the trolly problem even not choosing is actually still a choice and those eligible nonvoters are culpable.

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        2 days ago

        It’s the will of the people who bothered to show up to express their will, which is basically the bare minimum of “will”. They didn’t say the preference of the people

      • @[email protected]
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        92 days ago

        Heck no, you don’t get to dodge your responsibility like that. There’s an electoral system in place, you deal with it as it is, you don’t show up it doesn’t mean you disagree with both candidates it means you agree with whatever candidate everyone else chooses for you. A vast majority of Americans agree with Trump as president, that’s the state of things.

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        62 days ago

        You’d have to get them to say that, though. And then they wouldn’t. Say that.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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        02 days ago

        No, the American people voted in Donald Trump.

        Both the popular vote and the electoral college.

        America wanted him in.

        • JaggedRobotPubes
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          -52 days ago

          By a thin margin, yes.

          And only because “non-engagement” can’t run.

          Americans very much almost didn’t vote him in. Also a fact, and it paints a very different picture.

          • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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            32 days ago

            He won according to the rules of the contest.

            That’s literally all that matters.

            • @[email protected]
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              52 days ago

              Ah but you’re forgetting that if everyone who didn’t vote did vote, and happened to perfectly agree with me politically, my favorite candidate would win!