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   💜 Dr. Blight ❤️ (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 08:02:39 JST 💜 Dr. Blight ❤️

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   • cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag:

   @mrjunge if you had to be popular with even a third of the american public to be president we wouldn't have had one for like 30 years

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     cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag: (mrjunge@raru.re)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 08:02:40 JST cavewoman rika :nonbinaryFlag:

     I see people saying that the “majority of Americans preferred this.” The only silver lining to this election is we know that lower voter turnout combined with more mixed mail-in ballot voting is what caused this. Like okay that is its own disappointment for some (not really for me because to me that is just how the system is designed to work but that’s a whole other discussion). But it at least tells us the Orange Cheeto does not necessarily have a strong endorsement in the general populace. Don’t get me wrong, I am critical of the US enough to know US culture had something to do with the results here, as my previous posts attest, but I think the fact that your neighbor was probably either too apathetic, burnt out, amnesiac, checked out or busy to vote means the mandate is not indicative of the public as a whole. Winning the popular vote does not necessarily mean being popular with most Americans. That would be the case of voting was something people were legally required to do.