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I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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[–] GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

We had a choice between voting in a system that allows us some power to dissent and have a voice versus... this. The frustrating thing is this situation was just as advertised in Project 25, and then some.

We did not have an ideal choice, but we still had one. Now, here we find ourselves.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

The neat part about nation-states is that I have to deal with the consequences of most of our population being fucking idiots.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 3 hours ago

There's also the people who had no idea there was even a fight. There were actual people who were like "wait, Biden isn't running?" on election day, some of whom just voted Trump because they recognized the name. People are fucking stupid. So between the protest votes, blind ignorance, blatant stupidity, and typical apathy we ended up with America being turned into a Christofascist nightmare.

Then there's the fact that an all out (non-nuclear) war with China over Taiwan will cripple both countries. I wonder if America will splinter, and where the lines will be drawn.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

When in life do you get an ideal choice?

[–] GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Precisely. Life rarely gives us a perfect choice. Short-sighted idealists would rather take their ball and go home rather than facing reality, so here we are.

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I love it, Ive been seying how stupid dems who did not vote are. And every single time someone is coming to tell me, yadi yada. It's their conviction.

I see the german, saying, it wasn't an ideal choice. So, we got Hitler elected. What could go wrong??

I think with Trump, it's much more about the grift. So, hell rob the poor and feed the rich. But maybe I'm wrong and this time around he has lot more racist and dangerous friends with him... who know. Good luck to us.