• Cataphract@lemmy.ml
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          17 days ago

          335 million is the population, 71 million voted for trump. You can extrapolate with 150 million voters and 90 million that didn’t , there are only 240 million of the US population that are eligible to vote (so near 100 million didn’t even have a chance to voice their opinion).

          I’ve looked at the numbers before but can’t remember the specifics but it’s at least in the ball park if my memory serves me right.

          edit: grammar

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      18 days ago

      The tiny majority of voters. Not the country. Close? Not really.

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        18 days ago

        All those eligible voters who didn’t bother to vote at all who make up the rest of the country spoke too. They said they didn’t give a shit.

        So again, seems like a “why bother?” situation.

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        18 days ago

        That’s a great argument until you realize the rest of the country (the part that didn’t speak) literally couldn’t decide which is worse or just didn’t care. So they did speak, and what they said was “hwbennfswbebnsjdjbdbshdukabw”.