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[–] TranslateErr0r@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Stop this bs. Rules are set before the game begins.

[–] scifun@lemmy.world 19 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Both times Trump won was when a woman was running against him. The only time he lost was to a white old man.

USA is just sexist and Americans better come to terms with it rather than making up random reasons.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago

Correlation is not causation. We elected Obama who was one of the youngest presidents in US history first term. Also he was Black. I'm not saying the country is sexist, but I am saying both the female candidates that made it the general election, ran on dog shit platforms of "more of the same"

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 9 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Basically if Tim Walz was the presidential candidate he probably would have won.

[–] hal9000@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This! Kamala is a black woman. She was never going to win. When asked if they would rather win or be right, they chose being right. They live on denial on how sexist and racist their country is.

[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 29 minutes ago

there wasn't really a primary system or anything to address this

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Dems aren't going to nominate anybody without a long record of violence.

[–] yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 hour ago

"my vote won't change anything", "i don't like any of them", "that won't affect me", call leopards for those 36%

[–] Ithorian@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

Thats how elections work everywhere in the world... Wtf are you talking about?

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 21 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I need to mention that the reason why 20 million fewer voters voted is. Because of the massive voter suppression that was done prior to the 2024 election. So many people were purged from voters rolls and many polling places were closed it wasn't funny.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 6 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

While I'm sure that was part of it, a lot of people didn't vote for other reasons as well. Someone I know who you would probably consider "left" didn't vote at all because of Harris supporting Israel (I'm aware trump is worse for Palestinians), and I know a bunch of other people I've spoken to online also didn't vote at all for the same reason.

Plus I suspect a lot of other previous Biden voters didn't vote at all for similar reasons, like possibly all party's are owned by the rich.

Bottom line, a class war is needed to get the rich in check.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

This is true of every election except maybe one.

Nobody always wins. The "winner" is always elected by a tiny minority. It's a fundamentally corrupt system. Always has been. Literally concocted by genocidal slavers.

[–] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago

Not a mandate, but voter's apathetic acceptance.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Let's get a count of all of the votes that were tossed due to targeted voter registration purges.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I also would like to see that.

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