• GretaAintNoFlowerChild@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 days ago

          Well, you gotta consider everyone under 17yo can’t vote, and then, there’s all the people in prison and all the other disenfranchised citizens who have had their voting rights stripped by conservatives.

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          2 days ago

          that figure must be of the overall population.

          63.7% overall voter turnout nationwide in 2024.

          five states with the highest turnout were:

          Minnesota (76.4%), Wisconsin (76.40%), Michigan (74.7%), New Hampshire (74.4%), and Colorado (73.1%).

          2020 was the highest nationwide at 66.6%.

          more numbers at ballotpedia

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            Right, that makes sense, thank you.

            that figure must be of the overall population.

            I’d thought so, but forgot there’s actually people who cannot vote (shocker), so in my mind I went “okay, near-70% turnout, so why didn’t he get closer to 35% rather than 20?”… but this in addition to the turnout this time being lower than I remembered makes waaaay more sense, lol.

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        And tens of millions of americans just didn’t care enough to vote. That was basically saying they are fine with a pedo-rapist who previously attack the captitol win the election. Nazi-enablers.

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              Meaning they were not fine with either winning.

              I would like to ask, what is the point of voting according to you?

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                At the very least it’s harm reduction.

                Harris wouldn’t be trying to dismantle the government right now if she had won.

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                  Harm reduction is great, but if I do not see a candidate that represents me I am not going to vote.

                  Why would I support someone that is fucking me over?

                  If I had the final say in who gets to be president I might have picked Harris, but honestly, your vote is not going to change the outcome of the election, so why compromise your morality?

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                    So you won’t vote until you find a candidate that perfectly incarnates what you want? You realize that might be quite hard to reach? I could maybe understand in certain situations, but when the choice is between any random shitty politician and the fucking antichrist, best friend of one of most notorious pedophile ever, that explicitly stated he wants to be dictator and destroy democracy, I think you might want to consider making an exception. But I guess you wont have that problem anymore since the chances you get ever asked to vote again are really small IMO.

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                    What a bunch of self serving bullshit. You and everyone else who decided to sit on their ass instead of voting for the better but but perfect candidate are responsible for everything Trump is doing right now.

                    Not voting isn’t going to somehow get you better choices. It’s not like we get a do-over if everyone stays home.

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              Well I doubt the person I responded to would approve of voting for third party candidates. He probably thinks everyone who votes for them is a Trump-loving fascist.

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                That’s true, but at least we wouldn’t have the conversation that one third of the population doesn’t give a shit