• @pugjesus@lemmy.world

    Sorry that we made an attempt to stop them while you sat at home celebrating the oncoming genocides?

    You made an attempt to stop oncoming genocides… by voting for Harris? Who gave no indication she would do anything to stop the current genocide?

    I made an attempt to stop them by voting for someone who actually promised to do something, instead of pretending that voting for a capitalist was a good idea

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      1 year ago

      I made an attempt to stop them by voting for someone who actually promised to do something, instead of pretending that voting for a capitalist was a good idea

      lmao

      “I threw away my vote on someone advocating for Ukrainian genocide! That makes me the moral one!”

      Like opposing the British Empire in WW2 for being a horrific regime (true) and doing nothing to stop the Nazis.

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    1 year ago

    Who is claiming moral superiority over casting votes?

    The only people I hear claiming superiority are the ones who abstain from elections because ‘they’re all the same and all rigged and we’re just too stupid to realize.’

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      1 year ago

      Mostly the half dozen posts I’ve seen on here in the last day or two masturbating to old tired cliches about progressives costing Kamala the election. When, in reality, they held their nose and voted for the corporate goon, like they always do.

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        Mostly the half dozen posts I’ve seen on here in the last day or two masturbating to old tired cliches about progressives costing Kamala the election. When, in reality, they held their nose and voted for the corporate goon, like they always do.

        I literally provided data, but I understand feels over reals are the motto of you lot.

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    1 year ago

    You have it backwards. The morons voted 3rd party.

    Trump - 77,302,580 - 49.8%
    Harris - 75,017,613 - 48.3%

    Fun with math:

    49.8 + 48.3 = 98.1.

    77,302,580 + 75,017,613 = 152,320,193

    152,320,193 = 98.1% of the vote.

    x = 100%, solve for X.

    152,320,193 * 100 / 98.1 = 155,270,329 total votes (approximately).

    155,270,329 - 152,320,193 = 2,950,136 voters who failed to vote for Trump or Harris.

    Flipping the popular vote would have required 2,284,968 of them to vote for Harris. 77.45%.

    Even then, that’s not a guarantee thanks to the Electoral College:

    Trump won Pennsylvania at 50.37%. Getting all the non-Trump votes behind any single candidate would have still lost. Harris or otherwise.

    Arizona? 52.22%

    Nevada? 50.59%

    Georgia? 50.73%

    South Carolina? 58.23%

    Only 2 atates could have seen a non-Trump vote flip the election to Harris:

    Wisconsin - 49.60%
    Michigan - 49.73%

    But even if Harris won those 2, it wouldn’t have been enough to flip the election.

    Electoral vote:
    287 (270 to win) - 251

    If a 3rd party won those two, which would have been the first time a third party won ANY state since 1968, it wouldn’t have been enough to flip the election.

    287 - 226 - 25

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    1 year ago

    Immigrants might be in camps, but at least you Democrat voters have your sense of moral superiority!

    Sorry that we made an attempt to stop them while you sat at home celebrating the oncoming genocides?