• Hegar@fedia.io
    272·
    6 months ago

    50%

    A third is more likely:

    • 29.5% of the adult population voted for trump to be president. Imagine you’re a fascist and trump literally says vote for me and we’ll never have another election. You gonna sit this one out? Non voting regime supporters surely exist, but only in very small numbers.
    • Winning attracts supporters. We see this in sport, war and politics. Fascism is in the ascendancy. Some percentage of supporters are not ideologically committed but fairweather opportunists who can be pried away.
    • 2024 was not a free and fair election, and the results do not reflect the will of the population. Decades of gerrymandering and disinfo, illegal vote buying schemes, unchecked foreign interference, dark money and an electoral system that was never intended to truly reflect the will of the people gave us the result the wealthy wanted.
    • The voting totals could still be just wrong. Maybe. We all know why republicans spent so much time accusing the other side of being pedophiles, and they spent just as much time accusing them of rampant electoral fraud.
      • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 months ago

        Sucks you’re getting downvoted. They always come out of the woodwork and pretend that abstaining is action. I hate non voters more than MAGA.

        Oh but they are quick do downvote anyone calling them assholes for letting the insane people pump the gas on fascism.

      • Hegar@fedia.io
        63·
        6 months ago

        There was a massive, expensive disinformation campaign coupled with every legal, semi-legal and frequently illegal barrier to voting that the republicans and their allies could bring to bear.

        Calling people assholes because the rich invested hordes of time and wealth into driving down turnout doesn’t make much sense to me.

        Blame the rich fascists for pursuing this, dont blame people just because they live in a system where this is possible.

          • Hegar@fedia.io
            33·
            6 months ago

            This attitude is a gift to fascists. Save your scorn for the nazis who were able to subvert our shitty electoral system.

              • Cryptagionismisogynist@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
                12·
                6 months ago

                Are you aware we never got the ballot rejection rates like we normally do for elections? Trumpers had massive efforts in trying to have ballots challenged and rejected, particularly for signatures not perfectly matching on the ballot vs a driver’s license on the absentee/mail in ballots. There’s also Rockland County election lawsuit. Idk that he actually won.

                It’s entirely possible the ballots you sent in got rejected, unfortunately.

                  • Cryptagionismisogynist@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
                    13·
                    6 months ago

                    Polls had Kamala ahead. The guy who owns Polymarket is in bed with Trump and that could’ve been a money making scheme/scam re: bets.

                    Additionally, Dominion voting machines were just bought by a Trump group, Liberty Vote.

                    https://www.npr.org/2025/10/09/nx-s1-5569817/dominion-voting-liberty-vote-false-claims

                    I never said it was actionable, although we certainly need to be aware of it for future elections. I’m saying your hatred at society is perhaps misplaced somewhat, because there’s clues that he did indeed steal some votes.

                    It doesn’t help Trump to point this out, or Trump would be yelling it from the rooftops.