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[-] citrusface@lemmy.world 170 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Funny - it's the same for roughly 50% of Americans too - which is horrifying.

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Edit: sorry it was more than 50% of Americans. Fuck everyone. Goodbye.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 days ago

Even as someone who clashes with Lemmy.world users every post, I highly doubt Kamala doesn't have the vast majority of American support over Trump. It's that people don't vote

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 69 points 2 days ago

That doesn't change anything, tbh.

Apparently these people are at least complacent enough to let Trump become president. And that is horrifying.

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[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 days ago

Plus the system is rigged to count rural (and thus usually more conservative) votes more, so sane people have to turn out in greater numbers to keep sociopaths out of the white house

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[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago

The worst one for me is that there's some chode near me that displays a flag on his house fucking bragging that he's voting for a convicted felon.

They're proud of the fact that they're supporting a criminal, and I bet they'd be ok with him if he was an open Nazi as well (they're just fine with the same tactics and having literal Nazi flag wavers in their midst).

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Adam Conover's last video changed my view on the shock. They're not voting for him despite his bad qualities. They're voting for him because of his bad qualities. Telling them he's a Nazi and a felon and blah blah blah will reinforce their idea that he's the right guy. When people who worked in his government come out against him, the response is, "Of course they did. They're part of the swamp we're trying to drain."

Reason is dead. We're never going to convince these people that Trump is unfit for the job and a horrible human being. It's time to stop being so shocked these people exist. They always have and will continue to exist. All we can do is show up and end the man's political career.

Post-election update: 14 million vote spread between Biden '20 and Harris '24. Trump was only down maybe 1½ million votes between '20 and '24. Hey Democrats, where the fuck were you on Tuesday?

[-] Zink@programming.dev 21 points 2 days ago

It’s all very Dunning-Kruger. A huge part of the crazy conservative personality seems to be thinking YOU are the smart one in a sea of sheep, and that everything is a conspiracy.

So when Trump is getting convicted, looking like an idiot, and has most of the civilized world against him? SO much evidence of the conspiracy and the system trying to save itself from the great disruptor! It’s like reality itself is bending over backwards to make the chosen one look like an irredeemable pile of shit!

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 44 points 2 days ago

With electoral reform, we could have more then two artificially limited options. We could have competition in our elections. We could be free...

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 days ago

We will never have election reform that represents the will of the people, because the capitalist class, which has run this country since its inception through bourgeois revolution, will never allow “tyranny of the majority” reforms. They would sooner unleash fascism upon us than allow real democracy.

[-] Shapillon@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

But currently you aren't and the options are damage control or burning the house down...

  • A French person that was in a similar position a few monthes ago.
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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

I think the first, most realistic progress we can make is to get a few more states to sign the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. It's a agreement between state legislature to assign their electors based on the national popular vote, and it automatically goes into effect once enough states have signed on to guarantee 270 electoral votes.

It bypasses the need to pass a constitutional ammendment that is functionally impossible to get through.

And it's within grasp. Enough states have already signed on for 209 of the 270 threshold (Maine just signed it into law in April), with several states pending for another 50 (e.g. Nevada is waiting on governor'ssignature).

We're shockingly close to killing the electoral college, and nobody seems to know about it.

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[-] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 101 points 2 days ago

Watching America edging fascism is my pastime in between watching my own country edging fascism.

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 26 points 2 days ago

For the third time in a row

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 25 points 2 days ago

This is an insult to spoons.

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[-] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Let's not forget the two impeachments too

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