This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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And they even made things worse for the Palestinians. Fucking retards, the lot of them.
No need to stoop to their level. It legitimizes their behavior.
Can we give this rhetoric a rest? The voting system, the enforced lack of alternatives, hell even really the people who voted for this shit are all much more to blame than people who didn't vote. Or how about the fact "Multiple Republican-led administrations removed voters from their states' voter rolls in the lead up to the election"? Or the fact you don't even vote on the week-end, which is what pretty much all civilised countries do, to give more chances to more people especially poor people to get to the voting stations?
On top of that, how can you know what people who didn't vote would have voted for? Some of the states with the lowest turnout are one that are historically considered more conservative-leaning (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Missisipi, Tennessee). The results could have been "worse" (whatever that means, given the shitshow that is the Electoral College).
Really, it feels like it's so much easier to blame a subset of people than to confront the fact that, in the US, the majority of the population appears to be for an autocratic asshat who has claimed they wouldn't need to vote after they vote for him. The US population, as a majority, appear to want this. More people voting may not have changed anything about that.
It's not surprising that voter turnout is now when you have an unhealthy democracy (because it is a symptom of it). This is a bit like blaming people for eating unhealthily when all that's available to eat is unhealthy: you're not wrong that it's bad for them, but what the fuck are you actually doing do provide better options? So rather than blame those who didn't vote, for any variety of reasons, get organising. Low turnout is a seed that was planted a long time ago.
And in 12 months' time, the voting system will allow just one option. Great move, guys... great move.
Nope, got another 3.5 years of reminding protest-non-voters what they voted for.
You are why the Democrats feel safe to run shitty candidates.
Fuck no, no voting protest voters are part of the reason we have this sweeping fascist rule in our country. So no, they don't get a boo hoo pass on that shit.
Maybe they think the flooding won’t affect them on their moral high ground.
They'll never claim an ounce of the responsibility they deserve, the fucking scumbags
"christians" just do not give a fuck about kids unless they're touching them or oppressing brown ones smfh
They care before the kid is born. And then yeah, get fucked kiddo.
Probably a blessing in disguise. If they were funding climate research it would almost certainly be fraudulent science.
They had a corps of competent people with civil service protections who were getting paid out of that budget. They avoided committing fraud during the first Trump administration
This isn't the first Trump administration. This administration doesn't concern itself with civil service protections.
They are trying change things, but there's a good chance basic stuff like measuring CO2 concentrations would continue normally with a nonzero budget
Obviously a clerical error. The decimal place is off. It's supposed to be 0.00