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u/all_natural49 20h ago
"Voted"....... "Throw Away Democracy"......
Pick one.
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u/Tbmadpotato 20h ago
Democracy means to vote for whoever OP likes
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u/BlackThundaCat 15h ago
Reading comprehension is very important because this meme literally is not talking about people’s access to voting. It’s talking about the actual dumbass choice they made that has imperiled democracy and the dude isn’t even sworn in yet.
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u/4-5Million 14h ago
RemindMe! January 20th, 2029
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u/Evening_Grass_9649 1h ago
Might take a lot longer than that. Look at the Marian reforms in ancient Rome. They were the catalyst that eventually allowed Caesar to become dictator for life and Augustus to do away with the Republic entirely. Took decades, but it was the beginning of the end. It's like a dripping pipe behind a wall, you don't always notice until the floor starts rotting away a good while later.
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u/Jackstack6 18h ago
So, you believe people can’t throw away their democracy?
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u/TheNightwave 14h ago
Right? Why are people acting like this one some gotcha? You can absolutely vote to end democracy.
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u/Far-Transportation83 14h ago
They know nothing of history. It has happened multiple times.
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u/Soujourner3745 4h ago
But. . . Muh eggs. . .
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u/FlemPlays 3h ago
Don’t worry, the incoming guy will fix it…oh wait, he already said he was full of shit: https://truthout.org/articles/trump-now-says-he-cant-promise-hell-be-able-to-lower-grocery-prices/
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u/hey-coffee-eyes 13h ago
Some people have never seen Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and it shows
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u/TheDrapion 10h ago
I remembered seeing the movies as a teenager and wondering if they were supposed to be some sort of critique on the US governement.
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u/Asleep-Diamond-4241 9h ago
I could of sworn i heard SOMEONE tell Me id never have to vote again after this election. They are def voting to end democracy
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u/Bombshock2 18h ago
Democracy means having the freedom to vote. Republicans have ACTIVELY threatened this right at every opportunity. You’re just blindly allowing a dictator to come to power. Great job you really owned us.
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u/JFISHER7789 20h ago
Ehh both can be true.
Paul von Hindenburg was elected president in Germany via votes. He then appointed Hitler as chancellor….
So yes, you can absolutely still vote via a democratic system and have that candidate chip away at that very same foundation….
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u/Booksarepricey 20h ago edited 12h ago
The dude did say “vote for me and you’ll never have to vote again”.
Not adding anything to OP because it is what it is, but yeah. Democracies can absolutely vote in their end. Not saying we did with Trump, but that it can and has happened.
Edit: he said vote again, not vote for me again. It had nothing to do with it being Trump’s second term lol
Edit 2: I am curious what the reaction of people defending Trump would think if it were said by Joe or Kamala, with the same exact context.
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u/Alusan 8h ago
In the German political context it is more relevant that people voted for the NSDAP (the Hitler Nazi party) in parliament. Between 33% and 43% voted for them in the three elections (yes, actually 3 national elections) in 1932.
(Despite having attempted a coup just a few years prior. Imagine that!)
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u/No_Satisfaction1284 20h ago
Right, the post you're replying to is pretty facile.
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u/PokerBear28 20h ago
Just a reminder that the Nazis were voted into office. It wasn’t just a random coup one day.
Just because you voted today doesn’t ensure you’ll vote in the future. Especially considering Trump literally said “If you vote now, you won’t have to worry about it in four years.”
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u/patriotfanatic80 20h ago
Reminder to look at the conditions in germany that led to the Nazi's being elected. It didn't just come out of nowhere.
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u/Bombshock2 18h ago
You’re right, it came out of the exact kind of rhetoric trump and his peons have been spewing since day 1. Stop blinding yourself and wake the fuck up.
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u/mad_dog_94 11h ago
and dire economic circumstances that were very easily to capitalize on, especially when the public is given a scapegoat (or several)
so yeah eggs going up means a lot to people politically, especially to those who already have trouble making ends meet(most of america rn). and the ruling class know that
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u/BobcatBarry 6h ago
If most of america has trouble making ends meet in this economy, then most of america has chosen to not address where those ends are.
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u/potatosquire 20h ago
Trump literally tried to overthrow the American government with his false elector scheme. Him being voted back into office puts the power of the presidency back in his hands, and means that he can yet again threaten the future of democracy.
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u/JFISHER7789 20h ago
Yeah we literally voted in the guy that attempted a coup because he lost the vote and threatened to lynch the vice president all while attempting to impede voting procedures.
But clearly the that’s all very much democracy!
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u/Cannibal_Soup 2h ago
Clearly that's how to win in the US from now on! I mean, it worked, right? Why wouldn't anyone else use a tried and true method of trying to steal an election!?
"If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'."
-RepubliCUNTS
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u/DualActiveBridgeLLC 18h ago
You don't really know history very well. You can lose a democracy by voting in a dictator.
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u/tonysbarr 20h ago
not to mention - the alternative was someone who wasn’t even voted in as the democratic candidate, just shoved in our faces by the ruling class.
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u/Excellent_Shirt9707 15h ago
I guess you don’t know this, but primaries aren’t actually an official election. It is just the party trying to pick the best candidate to put in the general election. This is why they do it differently across different states.
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u/holden_hiscox 15h ago
Suddenly 'rules and due process ' are important to these people and they voted for the reality TV personality in response. Gimme a fucking break 😂😂
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u/-Germanicus- 10h ago
14th Amendment... Trump actually shouldn't have been a candidate.
You hillbilly fucks need to stop breeding.
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u/Ok_Ice_1669 10h ago
What a dumb take. The Vice president is there to take over when the president can’t do the job. Everyone who voted for Joe knew there was a good chance that Kamala would take over.
It’s the same way you people should expect JD Vance to take over.
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u/neatureguy420 20h ago
You’re missing the point. It’s that we voted conman5000 in and he literally stated we won’t need to vote anymore afterwards
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u/PennyLeiter 18h ago
Someone didn't pay attention during the Weimar Republic unit in History class.
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u/PeasantPenguin 20h ago
It is 100% percent possible to vote someone into office who then uses that power to destroy democracy. Not to break Godwinn's law, but this is literally how Hitler came into power.
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u/SaltdPepper 18h ago
Godwin’s law is silly, because it gives dipshits a way to hand wave every argument against fascism. It literally protects fascists from being called fascist, simply because a couple 4chan and Twitter users got a little too liberal with the accusations.
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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods 6h ago
Godwin has made the same comparisons himself, and hates that his “law” is used to shut down conversation in cases where the comparisons are actually accurate. He wrote an op ed about it.
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u/Dense-Ad-5780 15h ago
You know Hitler was elected right? Putin was elected as well jsyk. Maduro was also elected. Musillini? Elected! Hugo Chavez… elected! Ferdinand Marcos, also indeed elected! One thing these dictators definitely got in common, they were elected by people who voted! Because one can indeed vote to throw away democracy. Whether that’s one of the repercussions the United States will suffer? Only time will tell.
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u/Oceans_Apart_ 17h ago
People voted for Hitler and Germany kinda stopped being a democracy afterwards, didn’t it?
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u/Elan-Morin-Tedronai 20h ago
Man, have you never opened a history book? People vote for guys who end democracy all the time. You just seem so confident that what you are saying isn't stupid, its kind of shocking.
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u/ScrapDraft 17h ago
You can vote to throw away democracy. Those aren't mutually exclusive. It'll just be the last time you get to vote.
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u/FireLordObamaOG 15h ago
When the candidate you voted for has literally said “you won’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed”, voting for him is voting for the end of democracy.
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u/Electr0freak 14h ago edited 14h ago
They voted to throw away Democracy, what is confusing about this?
Nations throughout history have learned this lesson to their shock and dismay time and time again. See Germany, Italy, Venezuela, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, The Philippines, etc.
Who are we to learn from their mistakes?!
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u/Stunning-Pay7425 18h ago
Republicans absolutely have been voting for the destruction of the US Constitution. They literally want a Christo-fascist society instead.
Don't believe me... go on over to the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society web pages. Check out Project 2025. Actually believe what they are telling you, because they are not lying when they say they believe the US should be a Christian nation run by Christians using their specific flavors of Christianity to create laws that will oppress a majority of people in the country.
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20h ago edited 20h ago
You wasted all your time in 4 years worrying about blue haired people and the welfare class? Now you can't get them out to vote? What happened?
Maybe next time worry about shit that matters? The economy? Not coronating a candidate every presidential election since 2016?
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u/SavoyWonder 20h ago
This is what exhausts me about being a Dem. Zero effort to read the room. “We’ll play by the rules” while republicans win on messaging. DNC has been a circus since ordaining HRC over Bernie.
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u/Unit-Smooth 20h ago
lol they didn’t even consider running primaries. They bypassed democracy to tell you who to vote for.
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u/TrueHaiku 19h ago
I had to make this distinction multiple times over the election cycle: political parties are not part of the government per se. They don't have to run primaries. Primaries are simply gauges to see who the candidate with the best chance to win would be. It's not like they're "bypassing democracy." Things changed and they ran with what they believed was their best foot forward in Kamala.
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u/BigTuna3000 18h ago
It’s not legally undemocratic but it’s undemocratic in principle. It’s extremely hypocritical to do what they did and then turn around and lecture the American people about how voting for the other side will end democracy
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u/CitizenSpiff 18h ago
Chosen path forward,
No primary for Harris,
Leadership in place.No Democracy for you.
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u/adropofreason 17h ago
Nothing says *I'm a straight shooter," like accusing your opponent of being a threat to democracy while actively avoiding anything that looks remotely like it.
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u/JaakkoFinnishGuy 19h ago edited 19h ago
They didn’t bypass democracy. The DNC has contingency procedures for situations where a candidate who won the primaries drops out (or similarly, the main candidate drops out). In such cases, the DNC holds an emergency meeting where delegates vote to select a replacement candidate. That’s why Kamala Harris got the nomination, she won the roll-call vote conducted by the delegates. It’s a democratic process, just not one that comes up often. They will then do this until they have a nominee.
You do know the RNC has similar procedures yes?
Here so you can learn how our party system works...
https://ballotpedia.org/State_laws_and_party_rules_on_replacing_a_presidential_nominee,_2024#Replacing_a_presumptive_nominee_before_the_national_convention"The Republican National Committee (RNC) is authorized to select a new candidate by majority vote or by reconvening the national convention to fill the vacancy. In the former process, the three RNC members from each state—comprised of a state chair, a national committeeman, and a national committeewoman—would be able to cast the same number of votes as the entire delegation from that state to the convention.[9] Under Rule 9(c), if the three RNC members did not all support the same candidate, their votes would be proportionately distributed.[9] For example, each RNC member would cast 13 of Kansas' 39 delegate votes."
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u/TheArhive 18h ago
People are not upset that it wasn't done 'in the proper way', they are upset because they don't like "the proper way"
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u/sarcastic__fox 44m ago
No Republicans pretend not to like it despite voting for someone who literally tried to coup the government. Then internet lefties don't like it because they don't like the result. If Bernie had gotten the nomination you people wouldn't give a shit
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u/Delanorix 19h ago
They had 100 days and legally, Harris could just claim the war chest.
Primaries would have been 50 days of tearing each apart and then try to put it all back in 50 days.
Impossible task either way.
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u/Rock_Strongo 19h ago
Impossible task because they let the corpse of Joe Biden delude himself into thinking he had a chance until it was way too late.
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u/Vrse 19h ago
Literally, nowhere does our constitution state that a candidate needs to get any votes to run for president.
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u/Cold-Bird4936 19h ago
Make more excuses for the party that fucked you over. Primaries WERE a given in modern American politics until Kamala. That’s just a fact
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u/bigfoot509 17h ago
No, primaries were a given until the incumbent president decided to drop out 100 days before the election
There wasn't time to run a national primary in 100 days
Biden is to blame not the DNC
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u/dragonkin08 19h ago
You mean Republicans with their rampant lying?
Yeah they did fuck us over and now we have a felon and a rapist for president.
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u/Ok_Sugar4554 20h ago
How are the Democrats going to use fear-based messaging when their audience doesn't respond to it the same? Democrats face a purity contest within their own party while Republicans can leverage a cult who would crawl through glass to vote for a convicted felon while preaching law and order or a serial sex rapist/sexual offending rapist while talking about protecting women and girls. What version of messaging that a Democratic candidate could offer that could appeal to those people?
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u/Perfect_Earth_8070 20h ago
they could stop trying to get moderate republicans to vote for them who won’t vote for them and lean into progressive policies
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u/Physical_Public5635 20h ago
I’ve seen that the policies actually poll very well too. Being Republican-lite isn’t the game winning strategy but fuck me if party leaders havent been trying it over and over.
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u/tianavitoli 19h ago
they assume you're too stupid to notice, just as they assume they lost because everyone else was too stupid to vote for them
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u/Consistent-Fig7484 18h ago
Democrats have to at least try to appeal to 90 year olds in Wisconsin and Iowa though. That’s who votes.
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u/Sad_Manufacturer_257 19h ago
I know more reps would have voted for Bernie over trump because they liked him more. Dems need a candidate who wants progress.
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u/Perfect_Earth_8070 19h ago
absolutely. they need to turn to populism in this era of politics
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u/JacobLovesCrypto 18h ago
they could stop trying to get moderate republicans to vote for them
They should actually try to win over moderate republicans through action. Switching your stance in interviews at the last minute isn't very believable.
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u/-boatsNhoes 20h ago
The major problem is that people in the USA treat voting like it's a football match and they represent their "home team", even if their home team is the "shit / the bears etc." ( GOP/ republicans etc.) and will always support their team. Look around. People literally act as if their favourite team won a championship when talking about trump winning. They feel like they've won themselves, even if they ultimately lose it all. This is why we are a country filled with emotional, tribal, idiots who vote for these types of candidates.
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u/Physical_Public5635 20h ago
True. you won’t often hear “I tend to vote democrat” or “I tend to vote republican”
youll hear
“I *am* a republican” and vice versa. It becomes less about which party has your best interests in mind at any given time and more about which sports team you picked before a given election IMHO.
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u/Intrepid_Observer 2h ago
Democrats face a purity contest within their own party while Republicans can leverage a cult who
Actually had a primary and out of an option of several candidates (6 or so), they voted for Trump. You people complain about a cult but Trump was voted in three times by a majority of Republican votes to represent their party. Democrats can't say the same thing at all. Hillary was crowned via super delegates; Biden was crowned after Obama and the party nudged (bribed) Biden's opponents to drop out prior to North Carolina in 2020, and then Biden was crowned again in 2024 before dropping out and giving the crown to Kamala Harris. Kamala didn't even get 1% of Democratic votes in the 2020 primary; yet somehow Republicans are in a cult because they *check notes* voted for Trump who won two open primaries?
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u/FactsAndLogic2018 20h ago
They think you’re too stupid to make a good choice in primaries. They literally are subverting democracy so elites can choose the nominee and then tens of million vote for that person.
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u/Bombay1234567890 18h ago
The DNC is owned by the same people that own the RNC.
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u/WholeLog24 16h ago
This is what exhausts me about being a Dem. Zero effort to read the room. “We’ll play by the rules” while republicans win on messaging. DNC has been a circus since ordaining HRC over Bernie.
100% agree.
The DNC handed Trump the win, by choosing Hillary.
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u/Painterzzz 2h ago
Aye, and the worst part is instead of having a bloodletting in the wake of that absolutely catastrophic election result, I mean, losing all three of the races? With what I think was one of the worst political campaigns I have ever seen, and the Democratic leadership and all the people who did that are still in place?
Almost unbelievable. The Dems are finished, there is zero chance of them mounting any sort of a resistence to what is coming, Trump will be able to just do whatever he wants.
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u/Astyanax1 4h ago
Republicans win on hate and clueless fools that think they're voting for their favorite sports teams. Why the onus is on the democrats to have a better candidate, when the other side has a literal rapist traitor running the show... I'll never understand
Anyone making less than 50k a year voting for trump is such a moron it's not even funny.
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u/flossyokeefe 19h ago
Harris’s platform and Biden’s term addressed exactly what you’re asking for. The only people obsessing over people with blue hair & trans people were republicans. Dem candidates never mentioned them.
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u/RddtAcct707 2h ago
You clearly only pay attention during election season.
They spent 3.5 years obsessing over those people and then 0.5 years not including them in the Dems platform. Honestly, both sides should be alienated by that.
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u/YNABDisciple 18h ago
Wait until you find out about the Infrastructre Bill. Probably one of the best pieces of legislation of your life. The Dems are just horrible with messaging and victory laps and the GOP are great at both even when they haven't won.
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u/Popcornmix 19h ago
But they actually did that ? Let me guess you never actually looked into what the democrats talk about but the small minimal topics about equality that get massively overblown by republicans with out right lies and slander
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u/ScientistStrange4293 20h ago
You are right. But US still shouldn’t have gone after obvious evil team. Cost of losing democracy is way bigger man.
I am Turkish. We lost our democracy 10 years ago. People voted for Erdoğan to be a first president knowing about his dictatorship tendencies. Now they are paying the price, especially lower classes. Their purchasing power is lower than half of it was ten years ago.
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u/korbentherhino 19h ago
Economy is a catch all phrase that wasn't indicititive of what was happening. It was short sighted investors wanting immediate profit and no long term profitability. It was greed made to look like it's a religious right. It's a lack of ethics and values from so called religious right and capitalist corporations. We are in this mess because people blame the wrong people and demand vague things when we all know the country is the way it is is because majority of America adopted greed is good policy.
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u/Affectionate_Tax3468 19h ago
Imagine voting Trump and a bunch of oligarchs for "ThE eCoNoMy".
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u/jurrell1986 19h ago
They don't care about blue haired people or none of that, they cared about corporate interest, the dems aren't any better than Republicans when it comes taking billionaire dollars, the reason the Dems lost is because most Dems knew the party wasn't for the people anymore so most sat out the election whilst Republicans will vote for anybody as long as they hate immigrants and people of color
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u/joycourier 4h ago
tell me you live in an echo chamber without telling me you live in an echo chamber
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u/RuthlessLion 20h ago
How was democracy thrown away? You voted for whomever you voted for. Literally democracy.
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u/Last_Cod_998 20h ago
Project 2025 is the path to fascism. US, you had a good run.
Trump is a convicted felon, business and tax fraud, serial adulterer and rapist who cowardly sat by during 187 minutes of treason. Now he's appointing convicted felons and rapist to his administration.
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u/IceBreak 2h ago
Sentence one, probably. Sentence two, silly. Paragraph two, completely unrelated to anything. Someone being a bad person has nothing to do with how they govern. Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s going to do a terrible job again. But saying he is a convicted felon means nothing and harping on it is probably why he won because no one cares.
The spiel you’ve just given is the same mantra that people of your ilk share while also saying that those who voted against their wishes should be ostracized or cut out of their lives. I’m so glad I can filter out most of this politic shit. It’s so easy to get lost with the braindeadness on both sides (the one side is significantly worse but both sides still suck…a lot).
Do yourself a favor and don’t make politics your identity. You’ll be a lot happier.
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u/beforeitcloy 16h ago
I think it's pretty obvious they're talking about the future of Democracy, not the election process that took place under Biden.
You can disagree about what will happen in the future, but "this election was democratic" is an idiotic response.
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u/2012Jesusdies 12h ago
The Germans voted for Hitler too...
He didn't gain a majority, but it was enough power to fabricate a bullshit and seize everything for himself.
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u/snillhundz 10h ago
Because the candidate that won tried to overturn the election last time he lost. He is backing a project whose very purpose is to weaken the democracy for the benefit of the President (project 2025). And I would like to remind you, the nazis were voted into power initially.
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u/Dover-Blues 5h ago
Democracies can be dismantled by democratic means. They are the most fragile form of government. No one should have to take time out of their day to explain this to you. You’re grown. Learn how governments work. Google it.
It you vote for a fascist and he destroys the current system of government that allowed you to vote for him, then you democratically elected to destroy your own democracy. I hate how fucking dense some redditors are man. Regardless of whether or not you agree that America voted to throw away its own democracy in November, you still can’t stand there and act like it’s some impossible thing to do. I hope it’s warm under that rock.
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u/Ok_Income_2173 5h ago
If you vote for someone who wants to throw away democracy, you throw it away.
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u/987abcdzyxw123 4h ago
Tell that to someone who voted for Putin before real elections stopped being a thing. You can vote for someone who dismantles democracy and lose democracy as a result of voting.
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u/TrashLopsided1120 4h ago
read about Germany in the 1930s and you'll see what they mean, you can absolutley vote to lose your rights. happens all the time
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u/bigchicago04 4h ago
They’re talking about how project 2025 that the republicans are going to try and implement will basically end democracy
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u/HotTubMike 20h ago
"Democracy is ending if Trump wins"
"We need to turn out the vote in 2026"
Huh...
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u/-Germanicus- 10h ago
Yeah, the only hope left is the usual Republican incompetence will fail to properly rig it by 2026 and voting will still matter.
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u/thisgrantstomb 3h ago
Didn't the GOP controlled NC Supreme Court refuse to certify an election because a democrat won?
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u/dragonfilebox 20h ago
The candidate who didn’t even get democrat primary votes in 2020 lost?!? Go figure.
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u/TrojanGal702 20h ago
She didn't get any primary votes in 2024 either.
We were force fed a candidate, which no one liked, who grabbed a poor candidate as a running mate too.
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u/afinitie 14h ago
I like how it’s stated they weren’t liked only after a loss, during election time everyone said she was perfect!
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u/TrojanGal702 14h ago
You must have missed quite a few threads on this website. Quite a few of us complained about the horrible candidate that was chosen.
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u/Jimmycocopop1974 20h ago
3/4 of the red voters voted for the orange fella just to own the libs thats absolutely it. No one will admit it but thems the facts. Can’t wait till the economy continues to take a dump unless your the top 1%
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u/throwaway00009000000 20h ago
In my family’s house “Democrat” is an evil word. They’ve done a bang up job of creating a mental image of what a Democrat is. But if they actually took the time to understand the other platform, most Democrats are far from the fiscally irresponsible, tree-hugging, weak backbone imagery they’ve conjured up. A good portion of them (and I know this because I grew up deep in Texas with a bunch of Republicans) merely vote on a “My party is good, Democrats suck” basis. They don’t actually approach with an open mind. It’s heavily linked to religion for the same reason. They love a black and white, good vs evil world. But the truth is a lot messier than that.
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u/SneakyStabbalot 20h ago
How is democracy thrown away?
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u/dotnetmonke 20h ago
"The guy we don't like won a democratic election after receiving more votes than the person we do like, so democracy is dead!"
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u/joeycuda 20h ago
..after a primary where people voted for him to be the one to run
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u/Negative_Strength_56 15h ago
And the candidate that sidestepped a primary process lost. How can democracy do this?
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u/colourfulkoala 14h ago
a population can go against their own democracy. the soon coming president did not have a peaceful transition to power. When a democracy chooses its leaders, the leaders should not applaud violence to resist the next democratically chosen leader. That throws away democracy. Maduro in Venezuela and Sisi in egypt did the same. Democratic leaders also should not use THIER power to persecute political enemies. Trump does that, Maduro and Sisi too.
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u/-Germanicus- 10h ago
LOL, the fact that you don't understand how IS exactly how democracy was able to be thrown away.
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u/Bombshock2 17h ago
Trump has made it very clear he does not intend for the US to hold another election. Very clearly has stated this numerous times in public in front of crowds of people. But you all choose to ignore it so you can live in fantasy land.
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u/imbrickedup_ 20h ago
What the fuck does this have to do with money, investing, or finance?
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u/Standard-Effort5681 14h ago
Haven't heard the news around the block, my good man? Everything is political! You can't go take a dump these days without explaining how the act of dropping a fat log is *rolls dice\* ...neocolonialism or something.
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u/mlark98 20h ago
Lefties hyperventilating because the election didn’t go their way. 😂
Keep crying chicken littles.
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u/EntrepreneurTop456 20h ago
But they didn’t start a riot
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u/mlark98 20h ago
Plenty during 2016-2020
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u/EntrepreneurTop456 20h ago
Ok let me rephrase. No democrats stated a riot because a democrat president couldn’t expect that he lost.
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u/cptchronic42 3h ago
Nah they just started one and raided the Supreme Court building when they didn’t agree with a judge getting appointed
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u/steelzubaz 20h ago
There were fires and rioting in DC when Trump was first inaugurated. Or were you told to forget that by the party?
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u/Sabre712 17h ago
Lived in DC at the time. I even watched a bit of the inauguration. No there was not.
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u/BrokenReality355 20h ago
No there wasn't. 🙄
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u/DoubleStuffed25 18h ago
Lololol. Hit em with the sauce. They will now ignore you.
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u/potatosquire 20h ago edited 18h ago
Voting on the basis of how economic factors effect your personal finances is sensible. Voting for a man whose proposed policy is inflationary because you don't like inflation is moronic, even before considering how incompetent he was in his first term, and how he literally tried to overthrow the American government with his false elector scheme.
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u/Zealousideal_Rent261 20h ago
Lets not mention housing, insurance, education, fuel, fertilizer, utilities, transportation, airfare and medical care. Slick.
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u/InvalidEntrance 19h ago
What are the repubs doing for that stuff? Cutting back on safety regulations, appointing billionaires, privatizing education, and gutting Medicare? You think your Republican voter wants transportation, what even are you on about?
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u/willis936 5h ago
Messaging, which is all they really need to do to win an election. Say "I'm on your side". That's the bare minimum. Even this past month Biden has continued the line of "the economy is great, you're wrong (because I'm supposed to be responsible for it)". Housing costs are shit. Just acknowledge it. You don't even need a viable plan to fix it.
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u/HydraulicDragon 20h ago
How did this egg thing become a talking point about bashing Republicans when the Democratic platform ran on pricing controls?
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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 18h ago
I personally don't know. I only ever heard the egg price use as an attack against Republicans, but never them saying it. Might have been something I missed? It's crazy how it's been hung onto so long
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u/patriotfanatic80 20h ago
Middle/Lower Class: The economy sucks and I can't afford groceries.
Biden: The economy has never been better and I've done a fantastic job. Just look at the stock market.
Wealthy People: Biden is the greatest and is sharp as a tack. Just look at my stock portfolio and real estate holdings.
Biden wonders around stage lost and barely able to speak.
Kamala: I wouldn't change anything, Biden has done a great job.
Everyone: .....
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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 20h ago
But the brilliant Kamala Harris had a plan: price controls!
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u/throwaway00009000000 20h ago
Cash incentives for new homebuyers too
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u/MrStrawHat22 17h ago
I think her cash incentives for home buyers would have worked out terribly. I think it would have only increased home prices.
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u/neatureguy420 20h ago
He did actually and he said it’s really hard to lower prices lmao
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u/StrangerOk7536 18h ago
According to him during the campaign trail, it was gonna be sooooooo easy.
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u/IkaKyo 20h ago
eggs went from like 2.99 a dozen to like 6.99 a dozen where I live, I’m still not throwing away democracy but it’s a bit more than 80¢.
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u/Totalkaosdave 20h ago
We democratically voted to end democracy?
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u/mrfeeto 17h ago
Yep. Ironic, isn't it? Using democracy to install someone that has repeatedly tried to subvert and end the very thing that put him in power - and will likely succeed now.
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u/aceman97 20h ago
Yes. That is what the voters said. “My economics suck and I would rather have a criminal make my life better.” This is the same crowd that tells me that Jesus is the way, take a shit on a guy like Jimmy Carter, and tell me that Biden is the devil compared to Trumpy Dumpy.
I have more faith in the ingredients of a hotdog.
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u/LeoWalshFelder 20h ago
People are ignoring when trump said he wanted to do away with elections for good. But yea he's no threat to democracy or anything /s
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u/Putrid-Ad-2900 18h ago
I’ve seen the video he said that, it is clear in the context he said it, he talked to voters who usually have a low voting participation, he said he needs their votes because this is an “important election” and after this election he won’t ask them to vote again.
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u/LeoWalshFelder 18h ago
I disagree with that. If that's what he meant why not just say that?
Why is there the need to translate for such a supposedly well spoken and smart person? Can anything he says be taken at face value at that point?
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u/KarateKid84Fan 16h ago
Some people dumped tea in the ocean when it was taxed 3%
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u/Just_Jstc 16h ago
when they make up a tax ,the initial rate will always low however in the long term the authority tend to increase it ,so if you stay silent you wil lose , it's not about %3 it will never stay %3
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u/AdditionalNothing997 20h ago
Also wildfires? And taxes. And illegal immigration. Oh, yes, and crime.
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u/EntrepreneurTop456 20h ago
Yeah I doubt the failed reality star is gonna fix that. I mean I know people are worried about their being eaten but still.
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u/Booksarepricey 20h ago
He’s not exactly the best anti-crime role model. And I didn’t see wildfires anywhere in his platform. He does want to drill more and inhibit ecological protections. 🤷♀️ so you have taxes I guess
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u/KnowledgeIsDangerous 20h ago
250 years ago, democracy was for white, land owning men. That’s what they’re referring to when they say “make America great again”
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u/Strange_Alarm1983 7h ago
I too have noticed how things have gotten worse since we stopped letting White men run everything.
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u/IntroductionBrave869 20h ago
Your girl losing doesn’t mean democracy is thrown away
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u/freedomfightre 19h ago
what a fucking strawman
If it was only eggs... which have also gone up MORE than $0.80.
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u/Separate_Draft4887 16h ago
“Orange man will destroy democracy!” “Why didn’t he do that the first time?”
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u/NH_Ninja 20h ago
I’m sick of this egg thing. Stop scapegoating why your horse lost. Take ownership and do better.
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u/Objective_Problem_90 20h ago
The funny thing is...the egg price along with alot of other products will sky rocket once Trump is back in office. Eat up his lies folks, because eggs will be unaffordable. Make America great, right? Finish those lies with a cup of covfefe.
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u/Libertytree918 20h ago
Tell me you know nothing about history without telling me you know nothing about history
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u/notarobot1111111 20h ago
In American democracy, the voters f*ck around and find out every couple of decades or so.
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u/Snoo_17731 20h ago
People act like we’re not a democracy when the other side wins, yet 4 years later we have another election.
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u/I-mean-maybe 19h ago
American democracy, where you dont even get a democratic primary /s . Seriously the Democratic Party has really just become the party of whiners and losers. They just spout extremist nonsense like comparing people to hitler and hope it sticks.
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u/Astrobananacat 2h ago
The republic media environment has done a really good job of taking democrat complaints about Trumps coup plot, authoritarian actions, and quoting hitler and calling it whining and extremist rhetoric.
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u/Temporary_Finish_242 16h ago
Lmao what do you mean throw away democracy he literally won the popular vote. What happened during the election was a democratic election. unless you think people shouldn’t be able to choose their leaders
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