• lud@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    What are they supposed to do?

    The majority voted for Trump. What more is there to discuss?

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      2 hours ago

      A PLURALITY voted for Trump, NOT a majority. Don’t help them with their propaganda

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        40 minutes ago

        It was a simple majority or relative majority.

        Either way trump got 49,9% while Harris got 48,3% so he absolutely got a major majority if you ignore the ones that would never win anyway.

        And 49,9% is obviously so close to 50% anyways so not rounding is pretty much only pedantic.

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      9 hours ago

      Was it truly majority? And is it 100% certain there was no fraud?

      I heard in finland’s news there was somekind of arson attack at some point which destroyed bunch of votes, while the elections were still going but i have no idea how much. I dont think they would fabricate such news.

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        3 hours ago

        Afaik there is no evidence to the contrary.

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          3 hours ago

          No evidence as in it has been investigated reliably and nothing was found or as in nothing has been done because there is no obvious evidence?

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            I’m like you, no expert on American elections, but as far as I know no evidence exists which necessitates a more in depth investigation than what’s usual.

            If you search there are loads of attempts by russians to influence the election but none seem to have been very successful. So there has certainly been attempts but there is nothing pointing to any influence great enough to sway the election in any way.

            I assume you were referring to this article earlier: https://www.hs.fi/maailma/art-2000010793845.html

            In the first incident only 3 ballots were damaged and in the later incident roughly 488 were damaged. https://apnews.com/article/ballot-drop-box-fires-portland-vancouver-60fea753ceb761624e6aba49f0e9dd99

            The vast majority of the damaged ballots were able to be identified so replacement ballots could be sent. Only 6 were unidentifiable. A few more may have burned down completely and weren’t even able to be unidentifiable.

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              36 minutes ago

              I just cant believe actual majority of americans would want that idiot in power. If that is true then rest of the world is pretty much fucked. Might be anyways considering how apathetic everyone is.

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      They could at least stand behind the messaging from the campaign.

      If you call someone a dangerous threat to democracy for a year, and then when they get elected you wish them well and act civil, it really undermines your point about the whole threat to democracy thing.

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        22 hours ago

        Exactly. I believe Trump truly is an existential threat to the world and American democracy. To Biden and Harris, it was just campaign jargon.

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        22 hours ago

        Wall, I for one appreciate when someone acta civil. Especially when they can’t do anything anyway.

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          Because you have no fight in you. Was MLK civil? More than Malcolm, maybe, but no he wasn’t.

          Bernie Sanders has more fight right now than anyone in the upper echelons of the DNC.

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            They weren’t president though.

            Presidents, president candidates, and other persons of similar power should just accept that they lost and not do another trump. That’s unless you want a political climate where every election there are fights regarding who won and a bunch of bullshit childish behaviour.

            Presidents are supposed to be professionals and should act like it and that includes not being a bad loser.

            But by all means you should protest every day of his presidency. But also remember that you guys choose this yourselves.

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              Presidents are supposed to be professionals and should act like it and that includes not being a bad loser.

              Apparently, you wrote the rule book and Biden and Harris are following it.

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            14 hours ago

            With effort and imagination, insults can be amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound.Please give us higher-quality insults, or no insults at all.

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              He’s an idiot screeching for decorum during the fall of the Republic, he doesn’t deserve better and coating an insult in wit doesn’t change its nature or intent.

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      21 hours ago

      The majority voted for Trump in a country with voter suppression, gerrymandering, and even terrorist threats against voters / poll workers. I don’t know what to think of that statistic in light of… many exhausting decades of bullshit.

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        13 hours ago

        So what? What are they supposed to do?

        Stage an insurrection?

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          Hah can you imagine? I’m just dubious about Trump having a mandate.

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        4 hours ago

        About 36% of eligible voters didn’t vote. That’s not a majority. Can we be accurate with facts here?

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        1 day ago

        No, and that’s their fault.

        It’s very unfortunate but that’s the way it is. Deal with it and stop complaining. Find a good way to win the next election instead.