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Trump least popular newly elected president since Second World War – except for himself
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As they should, because they (and the rest of the liberals) relied on a capitalist political party to save them.
The USA has 2 options. They picked the worst option because of people like you and them shitting on the better option.
Voting is the process by which governments legitimize their right to rule, and the USA has not had a legitimate government in my lifetime. If there were options then we'd never have been forced into a "choice" of bad or worse in the first place.
If the voted government was not legitimate than voting is not a process that legitimizes the rule then is it?
Voting is just one tool of many to try to improve life for as many people as possible.
Whether it is actually legitimate or not is immaterial. The point is that people voted instead of rioting in the streets. If people aren't objecting then the government is free to act.
Voting is a tool to keep you complacent by redirecting your ire from the politicians responsible and onto your fellow voters.
The people who aren't voting are even more complacent, prove me wrong.
You're not listening.
Whether or not one is complacent is entirely irrelevant when one has no agency.
Voting is a fig leaf that covers up how un-democratic our country is. It exists to keep you from taking matters into your own hands.
You're not listening: the people who aren't voting are still not taking matters into their own hands either.
How would you know?
Can you personally confirm that ~90 million people aren't doing anything?
That's like asking to prove that God doesn't exist, because nothing has changed or happened that suggests they are doing something.
And if that's the way you want to play, you must be able to personally confirm that 200 million voters are complacent after voting. Because surely you aren't a hypocrite who expects me to account for every single individual unless you're already doing that for yourself.
Two people took shots at the president before the election, they were both registered voters.
Voters taking shots: 2
Nonvoters taking shots: 0
So tell me what you personally know your 90 million nonvoters are doing.
Neither of those people were voters, they were either dead or in prison for the election.
Hey the 2024 general election was not the first and only vote to ever exist.
Is your argument that they should be counted as voters even though they didn't vote?
My argument is that voting makes you a voter, including the 2020 general election and midterms.
Why are you biting the bullet in such a silly situation. They were politically active, besides voting also making donations to political parties. People who are invested in the political process do more.
So your argument is that someone who used to vote should still count as a "voter" even if they didn't vote last year?
If someone votes in 2020, then tries to off a candidate in 2024 and dies before they can vote in 2024, absolutely they are a voter.
Your argument is that someone who is politically active up until their death and doesn't pull a Jesus to vote after death is a nonvoter?
So the word "voter" to you includes folks who didn't vote?
That's so weird. XD
No, a voter is some who voted.
To you, nonvoter includes people who voted. You're just a version of chatGPT with no conscious awareness prior to the year 2024.
Then how do you describe someome who didn't vote in 2024?
Correct, the category of nonvoters includes former voters who didn't vote this time. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Nonvoters are people who choose not to vote, not people prevented from voting by being in jail or dead. You think it's straightforward because you're an LLM running on an OG Raspberry Pi.
Weird, I'm used to being called an NPC by right-wingers.
Interesting because discouraging people from voting also helps the right wing, so you're pretty busy actively benefiting fascists in at least one way.
Did they vote the fascists out of Germany, Italy, and Japan?
What makes you think kicking them out of America is going to be any different?
Show me a nonvoter lifting one finger to kick a fascist out of America.
Sorry, the folks who are actually doing something have the good opsec not to share potentially identifying information, and if you plan on doing something about this administration then you'd do well to follow their lead: https://opsec101.org/
All I need to see is some results to prove it isn't armchair revolutionaries LARPing online and never taking it to the real world.