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   Randahl Fink (randahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 17:04:55 JST Randahl Fink

   If any German needed an argument for voting in the coming general election, look at this fact:

   In the US, Trump won with the support of just 75 million votes in a country with 335 million citizens. In other words, just 22 percent of the US citizens decided to drive the country off a cliff, and everyone else is now going down with them.

   Wer nicht wählt, ist nur Mitfahrer.

   #depol

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     Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 17:26:43 JST Paul Sutton

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     • David Nice

     @davidpnice @randahl

     Regardless of if you like or dislike Kamala Harris, she was very clear that the election was a choice, those who didn't bother to vote surely can't complain as to the outcome of the election, a vote for an independent candiate is to reject the main parties. While this could be argued it hands the win to a particular side, it does show up that x percent have simply rejected the other two choices.

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     David Nice (davidpnice@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 17:26:44 JST David Nice

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     @randahl Unfortunately the ones who couldn't be bothered to vote did that too. Does anyone know the percentage yet?

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     Truls (truls46@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 20:43:01 JST Truls

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     @randahl

     Unfortunately people don't accept (or don't understand) that not voting only supports the right wing idiots.

     They refuse to vote because they can't find a party that matches 100% what they expect - which is a completely nonsensical expectation to begin with.

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     NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi: (neonpurplestar@outerheaven.club)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 20:44:42 JST NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

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     • Truls
     @truls46 @randahl i am greek by nationality, and i have tried to tell some fedi friends who live in germany to vote for habeck
     
     i don't know if i am overstepping my bounds, but i think people really need to learn to vote strategically
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     Julima (julima42@bildung.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:57:27 JST Julima

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     @randahl
     Erschreckend: im Umfeld, das auch aus vielen Leuten mit guter Schulbildung besteht, interessieren sich recht wenige wirklich für Politik und denken nicht über die Konsequenzen nach. Job, Freizeit, Urlaub, Auto, Sport sind wesentlich ranghöher eingeordnet. Sie wissen nicht, wie wichtig gerade jetzt Ihre Stimmen sind.
     Auch da werden Zeitungsüberschriften und Schnellanalysen weitergegeben (Stichwort Heizungsgesetz, wo auf Nachfrage niemand Inhalte kannte).

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     Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 16:37:40 JST Paul Sutton

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     @randahl

     What is the voting age population of the USA?

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     culpaplex (hp@social.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 03:19:59 JST culpaplex

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     • StaringAtClouds

     @staringatclouds If it was advisory, wouldn't that mean it was actually the driver who took the three passengers over the cliff after one of them said they wanted to?

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     StaringAtClouds (staringatclouds@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 03:20:00 JST StaringAtClouds

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     @randahl Reminds me of Brexit

     Roughly ⅓ of the electorate in a referendum that was advisory & required no action, drove off a cliff & took the other ⅔ with them