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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like voting. I wonder how the people who sat out the last presidential election in the US are feeling right about now?

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After Trump lost the popular vote by about 3 million in 2016 and was still appointed by the Electoral College… probably not that bad

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He'd have lost by way more than that if people had voted. The largest "vote" were the none votes.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

Correct. A non-vote (or, sadly, a third party vote) is a vote for "the bad one." (I'm not trying to say that Trump isn't the bad one in any case, I just mean in general, you can't complain about who won if you didn't vote against them. A vote for a third party or a non-vote is always a vote for the worst one.)

I say this as someone who voted third party in 2016. So did my wife. I voted Libertarian, she voted Green. We didn't dislike Clinton per se, but we thought it was shady how the DNC did Bernie Sanders. If she would have competed cleanly we might have supported her. We don't dislike her, like I said, but we did not want to vote for her underhanded methods. Of course, that's a Clinton for you. I'm not a big fan of them... but I now see Clinton would have been a better president than Trump. We just did not know how bad he was in 2016. Still, in the interests of transparency... we may as well have voted for Trump for all the good we did. And that's something I want to help other third party voters see.