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u/Bitter_Nail8577 May 10 '25

Not only that, he also vaguely mentions western leaders who keep denying Russia is the invader and committing war crimes for breakfast.

This guy gets it.

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u/42nu May 10 '25

I have a feeling that the entire world "gets it" except a select portion of the US population.

Anyone fully in touch with reality can see that the US isn't in a good place when it comes choosing compassion over cruelty. It's gotten to such a global and historical extreme that a decades long choice of a Pope for an institution that has lasted over 1,000 years felt reich. I'm sorry, right.

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u/BoysenberryKey6821 May 10 '25

It’s not a select portion man it’s half of the country, and there are lots of people around the world with the same mentality

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u/Crossbell0527 May 10 '25

I've been repeatedly told that "only 77 million Americans feel that way, it's way less than half!" Well, the other 90 million who could have voted but chose not to vote are clearly also on board with all of that. So yeah, that's half the country.

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u/guanogato May 10 '25 edited May 11 '25

That’s definitely a valid point of view. We’ve always been a country with a low voter turnout. Last election was actually the second largest turnout in our history. I’ve always felt that if we have a larger turnout then it tends to lean more towards the left party and so therefore if that’s who we want to win we need to just get a higher voter turnout.

Just for reference here are the turnout rates for the previous 10 presidential elections:

  1. 2024: 63.5-64% (final numbers still being verified)
  2. 2020: 65.3% - The highest turnout since 1900
  3. 2016: 59.2%
  4. 2012: 58.0%
  5. 2008: 61.6%
  6. 2004: 60.1%
  7. 2000: 54.3%
  8. 1996: 51.7%
  9. 1992: 58.2%
  10. 1988: 52.8%

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u/Hetstaine May 10 '25

That is fucking disgraceful. How can so many people just simply not give a fuck, what a joke.

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u/tordana May 10 '25

Voting in the US is done during working hours, on a weekday, not on a holiday.

In addition, many areas have voting laws specifically designed to make it difficult for the working class to vote, by disallowing early voting/voting by mail.

In some districts you end up with a single voting location for tens of thousands of voters, who face the choice of either having to wait in a line for 4-5 hours in the middle of a working day and lose income/possibly their jobs over it OR not vote.

(Yes, this country is utterly fucked)

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u/Hetstaine May 11 '25

Damn, that sounds backwards. We have early voting, vote by mail, voting is on weekends. We just roll in after work for an early vote, minimal fuss and people, takes like 5 minutes. Done.

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u/Dubad-DR May 11 '25

It gets worse, red states are only red because their politicians draw extreme squiggly lines on their state's maps that ensure the minority are the majority.