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Both parties are anti-union, against free college and anti-migrants but sure keep voting for blue fascists will make the country better

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.net
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    21 days ago

    my pet peeve is when libs talk about “half the country” deciding the outcome of an election when in fact its less than half of the people who actually voted, which is itself around half of elgiible adults, which is itself about 2/3rds of the country. So multiply all those together and the president usually has an explicit mandate from around 1/6th of the country.

    never mind that it’s moot because the options on the table are preselected for us by capital, and this year we’re getting fascism no matter what.

    • newacctidk [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      21 days ago

      Republicans are minoritarian even among voters. Reminds me of when chapo reviewed the Pfeifer book and he said “I dont believe in casting aside a third of the country as a way to win”, and Matt fucking screamed

      https://youtu.be/RgMci9k6UbA?t=2329

      morally democrats cannot afford to cede these voters to the republicans they have to i am resistant to any strategy that says we give up on a third of the country

      Wait a THIR…a THIRD??? There’s two fucking parties. IF YOU ONLY HAVE TO GIVE UP ON A THIRD YOU’RE FUCKING GOLDEN.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      20 days ago

      I’d have to go look it up, but it was something like 35%ish of all American adults voted for Trump in 2016. I remember the number was being compared to Hitler winning only 30% of the vote when the nazis took power.