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[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good job. Your non-vote really helped.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Protest votes did not meaningfully impact the election

Its a pathetic excuse to hate fellow poor people

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (45 children)

As I said in another thread elsewhere on the same subject a while back:

The Protest Vote Paradox™

As we’ve all read time after time in the months leading up to the election, the Protest Vote™ simply states states that:

“We refuse to vote against a Tyrant-Felon in order to send a clear and concise message that we will not stand for [roll D20 for random popular single issue], and alongside our refusal to vote against the Tyrant-Felon, is a collective hope that the aforementioned clear and concise message- if ignored, is received under unmitigated duress!”

-Cut to Tyrant-Felon’s win, and the aftermath:

Whether observed or not, the behavior of the Protest Voter will attempt to achieve the following:
• Obnoxiously tell everyone: “We told you all what would happen!”
• Onnoxiously claim there is: “No way protest voting could cause trump to win.”

As both of these options cannot simultaneously be true in the same reality without breaking important time-space things that we would probably prefer not be broken- we are left with only a few logical conclusions:

  1. Protest voters have no idea what they’re talking about.
  2. Protest voters don’t understand the concept of hypocrisy.
  3. Protest voters have somehow learned to defy reality and become exempt from the concept of paradoxes, thus creating an entirely new study of theoretical science, known as Bulletproof Symbiotic Hypocrisy Theory, or BLsHt.

Something, something, something Ted Talk.

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[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

77 million voted for Trump. 75 million votes for Harris. Just under 3 million voted for a third party candidate of some kind. 90 million didn’t vote but were registered to vote. We don’t know the number of potentially eligible but not registered people there are. The US has an estimated 340 million population. An estimated 260 million are adults.

Care to shut the fuck up or do you want to say more stupid shit?

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's normal in US elections for less than half the population to vote.

For local elections it's less than a fith.

The protesters were almost all young people 30 and under, which when we look at the numbers, that group didn't vote any differently than any other election, same as always they don't vote in any meaningful capacity, so they didn't effect the election in any meaningful way.

I would love it if young people voted, but they don't.

Care to shut the fuck up or do you want to say more stupid shit? I know you won't tho, keep convincing yourself of reasons to attack your fellow slaves XD

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It’s normal in US elections for less than half the population to vote.

they don’t vote in any meaningful capacity, so they didn’t effect the election

You have no argument and you're too stupid to realize it. You also didn't even get the statistic correct.

https://www.electproject.org/national-1789-present

Life must be hard for you.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

What a good little slave.

Master will be proud.