• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    So… your argument has no evidence or basis in reality, beyond the anecdotal from your own experience on Lemmy/SM?

    All you’ve done is provide another datapoint for why Liberals have helped turn America into a fascist dictatorship… Living in a manufactured reality based on feefees and propaganda instead of empiric evidence…

    • TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I mean, the evidence is right there.

      In 2020, 81 million people turned out for Biden. That number decreased to 75 million in 2024.

      In 2020, 74 million people turned out for Trump. That number increased to 77 million in 2024.

      In 2020, roughly 2.9 million people turned out for a third party candidate. Of these, 1.8m went Libertarian, with 407k for Green. In 2024, 2.9 million turned out for a 3rd party. This time it broke 862k for the Greens, 756k for Junior (I refuse to sully the Kennedy Name with him!), and 650k for the Libertarians.

      Explicit evidence that requires a minimum of data science skills to process. 6 million people who voted for Biden didn’t turn out for Harris, while Trump somehow got 3 million more people to vote for him. Meanwhile, support for the Libertarians cratered by 1.2m, and support for the Greens doubled from 407k to 862k. And Junior? He was explicitly in the race to hurt Dems. So, another 756k added to the Dem ‘alternative’ vote, now split between two parties. So, from 1.8m spoiling the Right in 2020 to 1.6m spoiling the Left.

      The data is there if you’re willing to look. All 1.6m of those people who voted Green or Junior for some strange reason? They voted for this. Just like the 6 million people who voted for Biden in 2020 and didn’t in 2024, or the unknown number of people, estimated betwen 90m and 100m, who sat home. And of course, the 77 million who voted directly for Trump. Every last one of these people, save the fraction of the 77 million who want what Trump promised, could have had a seat at the table and a voice at trying to drive the monolith that is US policy, but they elected to surrender their agency.

      I know you don’t like to hear this, but everyone who made those choices above has surrendered this country to Fascism. And I’m not sorry for calling it out.

    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I didn’t make an argument at all, I simply described my experience of reality in an effort to help you understand why people here are disagreeing with you. Don’t worry, I won’t try to help you again.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Don’t worry, I won’t try to help you again.

        I’m not the one living in a fascist dictatorship, blaming the people who saw this coming decades ago, numbnuts. You are!

        Maybe you should take a break from sniffing your own farts and try to learn from history, instead of repeating 2016 and 2024 all over again?

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          11 hours ago

          I’ll have you know I can feel, and move, my nuts; they are perfectly healthy and functional as far I can tell. The left one hangs lower than the right, but that’s very normal, otherwise they’re smashing against each other all the time. I’m pretty sure Jordan Peterson has that, that’s why he always sounds like he’s about to cry.

          As far as the sniffs go, even if I could avoid it, I don’t know that I would choose to do so. The gut biome, as we’ve all learned, is so so important and we need to use all the information we have to ensure its health. An off-smelling fart can often be the first warning sign of oncoming digestive issues.