This is actually sad

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    It’s safe but also, they voted for this. They wanted the bad stuff for others, they just didn’t wanted the bad stuff happen to them.

    So fuck these people. If they run out of money and lose their business? Good! If they become homeless? Great! If they die of hunger because of trump? Even fucking better.

    I don’t care a single shit about these people. They voted to make the entire world worse just so they would get some magical step ahead, and now it backfired and now the entire world including them is fucked.

    I’m not American, I don’t live there, yet even my life had been severely negatively affected by these assholes, and now they want my pity? Fuck you! Suffer, die, I won’t care about them

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      15 hours ago

      It’s safe but also, they voted for this. They wanted the bad stuff for others, they just didn’t wanted the bad stuff happen to them.

      This is true from an emotional perspective, but neither you nor this person understands how our political system works. I mean I don’t fully understand it I’m sure, but I do know one thing.

      It does not matter who we vote for in the presidential election. We have an electoral college, which has overturned the popular vote on multiple different occasions. The electoral college was instituted when black men earned the right to vote, as a measure to disenfranchise them. By all means vote for someone other than Trump, but that vote doesn’t have to be respected.

      • unphazed@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        Usually in the circumstances the EC differed from the PV it was by 1 to 2 votes, and the overall election was close in the PV. I detest the EC, but if the PV is 60% or more, I’d say the EC would match (otherwise, the US citizenry would likely rebel).

        • sureshot0@discuss.online
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          13 hours ago

          I detest the EC, but if the PV is 60% or more, I’d say the EC would match

          Are they legally required to do this?

          Are you old enough to remember all the times they’ve openly ignored the popular vote?

          the US citizenry would likely rebel

          With what and how?

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            3 hours ago

            He is not saying that there is a legal requirement for the votes to match. What he meant, I believe, is that in a scenario like the one he described, the votes typically end up aligning by circumstance.

            Regarding the second part: no they wouldn’t. It is exceptionally rare for popular rebellions to happen without widespread food insecurity.

            • sureshot0@discuss.online
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              1 hour ago

              It is exceptionally rare for popular rebellions to happen without widespread food insecurity.

              Not to mention the fact that most of our tax dollars go to the military! They may be incompetent but I don’t think the average American is more competent.

              • badgermurphy@lemmy.world
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                51 minutes ago

                That is also a huge factor. The only hope for Americans in that scenario is widespread desertion from soldiers and officers that have reservations about being part of a military junta killing their neighbors and family members.