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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago

Sure, leopards eating faces and all that, only these people lack that kind of self awareness. As the leopard is eating their face, they're sitting there telling themselves that this is simply an honest mistake by an administration that's trying to do the right thing and would never hurt them on purpose.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 16 points 9 hours ago

why would they? "i have your votes, i dont need you anymore"- trump and the rest of the gop.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 83 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

ELECTION SUMMARY REPORT Chippewa County, WI General Election - Official Results

Harris/Walz: 14,573

Trump/Vance: 23,399

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 9 points 13 hours ago

chippewa falls/county is full of maga crazies.

eau claire county, the main part of the 'metro' area up there and second-largest in wi-3, is significantly larger (105k vs 66k) and hasn't gone republican for president in forty years.

wi-3's largest county, la crosse, matches that 10 straight elections going democrat.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Minus the 38% of voters who were against it.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

that's only true if all eligible voters voted. not voting is voting. so the actual percentage of voters who were against it is likely lower.

[–] minnow@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

not voting is voting

I like to be more nuanced with ideas like this, because I like to acknowledge the widespread voter disenfranchisement that happens in our country.

If a person could have voted and didn't, then I agree; they made an active choice and that counts.

If a person is eligible to vote but can't--maybe their voter registration was wrongfully purged, or they genuinely can't afford to take time off work, or something else valid I dunno--then that's not an active choice to not vote and I don't think "not voting is voting" can be applied.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

I agree and obviously exclude disenfranchised voters. still 86 million eligible voters didn't in the election. while I'm sure there's a significant slice of the population that's disenfranchised, there's no way it's remotely close to 86 million. The unfortunate truth is that people who sat out won the election. It was that bad.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

why is “Voted" capitalized? being the only capitalized word and the leftmost it almost looks like it should be read from bottom to top. weird choice.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago

And the Leopards dance the dance electric

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 11 points 16 hours ago