• OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Sorry, did I miss something and the democrats actually won? No? Then they were pretty fucking important it seems.

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      8 months ago

      People who don’t vote and people who can’t vote aren’t important because their voices don’t exist. They can shit themselves on twitter any day of the week until the heat death of the universe, their opinion don’t matter because so far democracy happens in the real world and not on twitter and reddit.

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        8 months ago

        How many million people didn’t vote? And how many million would Harris have needed?

        Not voting is a choice and clearly it can be an important one. Their voices exist you just don’t seem to want to listen to what they’re saying.

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          8 months ago

          Last election was one of the active ones. The people who didn’t participate are roughly those who never do. If the prospect of one more Trump presidency didn’t motivate them, they are truly, totally non existant as citizens and frankly as members of society. Their voices exists only as an annoying buzz on social media, and their opinion don’t matter, newer were.

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            8 months ago

            The people who didn’t participate are roughly those who never do.

            2020:

            Biden - 81.2 million

            Trump - 74.2 million

            2024:

            Harris: 75 million

            Trump: 77.3 million

            Even if we assume Trump took all 3 million extra votes from Biden’s 2020 voters, there are still 3 million Biden 2020 voters who didn’t turn out for Harris. They cared enough to vote against Trump the 2nd time, just not this time.

            Anyway, you are right in the sense that those few million likely wouldn’t have tipped the election anyway. You are dead wrong that they don’t matter. Completely counterproductive lesson to take from the election