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Anger at the USA? (lemmings.world)

submitted 8 hours ago by JohnCorky@lemmings.world to c/lemmings_world_instance@lemmings.world

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Please don't hate Americans and the USA. Direct your disgust at the dolt-in-chief and those who elected/support him. Most Americans are kicking themselves for not doing more to keep him out of any position of leadership.

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Numbers may provide some perspective.

There are 245M registered voters and 347M US citizens. Trump won 77M votes.

That’s only 31% of registered voters, and 22% of the nation.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

And this time around, anyone who failed to vote made a conscious decision to allow this. Those 69% of registered voters are not victims here.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 19 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

So am I supposed to be mad at the 77 million voters or the 77 million voters plus the (at least) 91 million people who didn't vote against him?

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 15 points 6 hours ago

77+91 for me. Couldn't even be bothered to do the bare minimum to stop this. So I hate most of my fellow Americans. Makes meeting new people and being in public generally miserable.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

The second one. They deserve your contempt. All Americans do not.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

You can interpret that data any way you’d like.

Personally, I felt some reassurance learning that 1 in 5 people voted for Trump after initially seeing it as every other person.