• Bronzebeard@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    No. He got a plurality of the votes. Not a majority.

    The majority of participating voters voted against him.

    How many times do you need that repeated to understand?

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      1 hour ago

      I mean, I’m sure you’re right. What I don’t understand is how that technicality is even relevant. Even if 40% of the people voted for this, does that not still mean you have a sick and dangerous population on your hands? We’re talking about tens of millions of people that voted for a fascist regime.

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        11 hours ago

        Outdated data. The votes were not done being counted on November 10th. Trump got 49.8% to Harris’ 48.3%

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          11 hours ago

          Ah. Fair enough. Last time I had seen it it was more than 50% still. Well then by a technicality not a majority then. I do love a technically correct statement so I’ll give you that one.

          Still. More people voted for this than didn’t vote for this.

          • NABDad@lemmy.world
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            11 hours ago

            Still. More people voted for this than didn’t vote for this.

            I don’t want to pile on, but if less than 50% voted for this, then more than 50% voted against it. The people voting against it didn’t vote for the same thing, but they did vote against this.

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            9 hours ago

            Well if you love technicalities you should’ve realized that people who didn’t vote at all for any reason also didn’t vote for this. Technically.

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              9 hours ago

              I’m not playing that game. Only people who voted get a say. Even if you give Kamala ALL the third party votes (which arguably the RFK votes would probably go to Trump) she still loses the popular vote and the election.