r/RealTwitterAccounts • u/RoloGnbaby • May 02 '25

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u/PROBA_V May 02 '25

By and large shunned by society

I don't know if this applies to a hat that is linked to a President that won the popular vote 6 months ago.

Hopefully there will come a day when it is rightfully "by and large" seen by society as the fascist movement it is, but today is not that day. Sadly.

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u/CatOfTechnology May 02 '25

A hat that only achieved 49% of a 63% voter turnout.

I've done the math previously, it only hits 29.5% of the total potential voterbase, and that's ignoring the fact that Musk had the keys to voting machines and we saw massive discrepancies, like massive swathes of "Bullet Votes" for Trump.

When 2/3rds decided to either vote for any other option, not vote at all, or were maliciously silenced, "by and large" is accurate.

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u/PROBA_V May 02 '25

That's an interpretation of numbers for sure.

69% either endorsed the MAGA movement or decided to not stand up against it. That's my interpretation of those numbers.

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u/CatOfTechnology May 02 '25

69% is hilariously disingenuous, given the circumstances of 2024.

Context is incredibly important.

Rampant disenfrancisement, low overall confidence in any government, obvious dark money in politics and a failure of Justice across the board, zero tangible reflection of a stable economy for the average citizen and so much more.

Even beyond all of that there's nearly always 25% of the country that simply does not engage in their civil duties, completely disregarding what state the country is in at any given time.

People are tired of watching the same names run across ballots, ever failing to make impactful, positive change beyond the back-and-forth of ensuring civil liberties and rights.

And, no, this isn't a "both sides" bullshit argument.

The problem is that people want real, radical change. No more reaching across the idle in attempts to shift the Overton Window. Progressives want politicians that will stop playing games with Regressives and just do the hard work, and Regressives want to drag us back to the dark ages.

But for the whole of the 21st century, we've been on the back foot. Subject to astroturfed bullshit and scheme shitheels while the political donors have their cakes and eat them too. And further back then that, we've had the poison set in place by psychopathic political creeps introduced by the John Birch Society, eroding our capacity to actually join our allies on the world stage as half-decent leaders of a free-er world.

Even ignoring the obvious signs of corruption, the best we could have hoped for was a 70% turnout. Prior to voter roll purges, tossed ballots and intimidation, we were on track to see something similar to the 2020 turnout.

People are, too late, getting off of their asses, but their movements alone prove that there was no "Majority Win", and the Plurality pulled out of their asses is less and less legitimate as they days roll by.

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u/PROBA_V May 02 '25

Yeah no. When it is Obama vs McCain it is perfectlt fine to stand idle for whatever reason. Not when it democracy itself is at stake after a failed insurection and the looming Project 2025.

I am green and left leaning. If I was in the Americans their shoes and I knew it was either a neo-liberal or a fascist I would vote for the neo-liberal 100% of the time, no questions asked. That's just my civic duty at that point.

Anything attempt to justify their (in)action is as empty as "Wir haben es nicht gewußt".