• ICE_WALRUS@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    We all need to remember online spaces like reddit generally lean younger and more liberal. We never really get a holistic view of any situation. Just as people on reddit would say “we didn’t want trump” and the response was “clearly over half of you did” from europeans, this is another example of how we have to realize we are in our own little bubble in these online communities.

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      10 months ago

      That’s somewhat debatable, though, considering Trump won by electoral votes but lost the popular vote by about 2%. The percentage of votes cast by eligible voters was also only something like 57-60%, so it’s more like 27.5% of eligible voters directly voted for Trump (if I calculated that correctly).

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        10 months ago

        While I agree, that is still a shitton of people who voted for an orangutan.

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        10 months ago

        However, most Americans worship the document that allows the loser of the popular vote to win the election regardless as if it was a holy writ.

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          10 months ago

          I haven’t actually asked everyone, but I’m pretty sure that most Americans want to change that part.