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I love how all Americans in the comments are mad at Biden for not stopping Trump when they all elected him to office to begin with lol.
I guess it all starts making sense when you look closer at it. The education level in that country really is circling the drain.
Trump won with less than 30% of the population’s vote. And even now, he only has an ~30% approval rating. It certainly isn’t “all” Americans. It isn’t even “most” Americans. But sure, speaking about an entire country as a single monolith makes the circlejerk easy.
He won with less than 30% of the populations vote because most Americans decided facism wasn't that bad so they stayed home. People who didn't vote for Harris or encouraged others not to vote for Harris looked at what Trump was selling and decided they'd like to buy.
Don't forget the hundreds of bomb threats against voting locations in blue districts. Or the hundreds of thousands of voters that were de-registered without their knowledge. Or the fact that getting an ID can take up to 6 months, even for a renewal. Or that voting locations were redistributed out of blue cities and into red suburbs.
I'm not sure I buy that teh election was stolen with rigged tabulation. But millions of votes were suppressed, especially in swing states.
Half the country beleives their vote doesn't matter, and based on the data it doesn't.
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/945031391/poll-despite-record-turnout-80-million-americans-didnt-vote-heres-why
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/03/04/half-of-those-who-arent-learning-about-the-election-feel-their-vote-doesnt-matter/
https://ivn.us/posts/most-american-votes-dont-matter-new-research-highlights-crisis-electoral-representation-2025
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2020/01/17/your-vote-almost-certainly-wont-matter-editorials-debates/4449482002/
I voted because I like the illusion of activism it provides like everyone else, but I know my vote isn't counted and doesn't matter. So I can't blame people when they say they don't care enough to vote.
No, they looked at what Harris was selling, and were justifiably disgusted. I voted against Trump, who is a monsterous PoS, but lets not pretend that Harris was a good candidate.
I'll agree it's not all. However I'll say that the people who voted for him and the people who didn't vote at all are the majority, therefore most.
You can't just blame the orange ferret and his fans. You must also blame the people who could've voted against him but chose not to.
Oh look it’s another “I didn’t vote for Trump so it’s not MY fault” retort. Well admittedly that is a hard argument to argue with so I’ll just say this.
And the fact he was about 37 felonies under his belt? And led to insurrection. And it is his SECOND term. And he has made threats against his own people and the world.
But most of the country didn’t vote him in? Your logic makes as much as sense as your government. You had ample time to deal with your dirty laundry. But instead of quietly coming in twice a week, you waited 6 months and brought 8 garbage sacks of clothes and then got mad there wasn’t enough machines and then beat up and elderly lady for her detergent while blasting “Rock you like a hurricane” with a beer hat.
You take responsibility and fix your shit. Till then. Yeah, the US IS a giant monolith of hatred, anger and aggression.
You don’t get trust homeboy, you have to earn it. And if you lose it, well, look at him…
PS: literally the dumbest use of quotes I’ve ever seen lmao
You’re preaching to the choir. You don’t need to try and convince me he’s an asshole. At best, that entire paragraph is just whataboutism.
Correct.
And it’s clear that the people who were supposed to be in charge of doing that only put up a token effort to do so, to keep the public placated long enough for the next election cycle. There are a lot of Americans who were (and still are) deeply angry at the way the entire investigation was handled. And even more who are frustrated at the fact that the system’s checks and balances only work when congress is willing to actually use them.
In case you weren’t aware, the vast majority of America is only one or two missed paychecks away from homelessness, and enacting real change would require a massive effort (and create a lot of new homeless people) because it’s not Europe where you can just roll up to the capitol building on a weekend trip. Imagine if you were in Naples, and had to travel all the way to Madrid to protest your own government. Now imagine you have zero funds for a plane or train ticket, and need to drive the entire way. It’s a ~20 hour drive, which you’d inevitably need to take over the course of several days.
That’s essentially a full work week for the round trip, and it’s less than many Americans would need to travel to get to DC. And you think they’d get paid time off work approved for that? No, they’d get fired for missing an entire week of work. And that’s assuming they’re even able to return to work afterwards; Hopefully they avoided getting maimed, crippled, and/or arrested by police during the protest.
If anything, the US is a giant monolith of poverty and struggling individuals, with a thin veneer of manufactured exceptionalism keeping it from completely unraveling. The only Americans able to exert international pressure are the billionaires who have been robbing the proletariat blind for decades, and the lawmakers who are in the billionaires’ pockets.
If you have to resort to insulting someone’s grammar on the internet, you’ve already lost the argument.