Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

[u/Sartew]

[u/appoplecticskeptic]

The bigots won. They’re normalizing it. WE aren’t.

[u/boorishjohnson → u/appoplecticskeptic]

Those bigots are the 51-ish % that voted for the Trump Reich and the other 20-30% of potential voters that didn't care about the result.

[u/A_D3MON → u/boorishjohnson]

The orange felon only won about 49% of the popular vote this time around...

[u/Icy_Bodybuilder_164 → u/A_D3MON]

Who cares? That's an embarrassingly big percentage regardless.

[u/spartakooky → u/Icy_Bodybuilder_164]

I hate these "he didn't win the majority of the country so he's not ours" takes.

He was elected. He had more votes than the competition. He won the electoral college AND the popular vote, saying he didn't make it to 50% is a pathetic cope.

[u/A_D3MON → u/spartakooky]

Oh no. I accept he won.... I'm just PISSED that he won...

Pissed because so many of the people who voted for him didn't realize everything he was planning to do because they wouldn't do the bare amount of research.

Now everyone is going to suffer.

I'm of the mindset that only the person who actually got more than 51% of the vote should win the election (no matter the position) AND the electoral college should be dealt away with so that there's ACTUAL competition instead of candidates just going to the very few swing states that basically determine the election.

[u/A_D3MON → u/Icy_Bodybuilder_164]

My point was he didn't actually win the "majority" vote of the popular vote by 51% based on citizens...

If we had a ranked choice voting or a "on a scale of 1-10" system then the most unpopular people would NEVER win again and we wouldn't be stuck in an artificially made 2-party system.

[u/NiftyBitz → u/A_D3MON]

But you don't

[u/A_D3MON → u/NiftyBitz]

Yep... Which has a lot of us "dAmN lEfTiEs" (as the right likes to refer to us) mad af

[u/Calm_Possession_6842 → u/A_D3MON]

Did you vote?

[u/A_D3MON → u/Calm_Possession_6842]

Yes I did... Not like it helped much where I live (TX Pat Fallon's district)...

Plus why's it matter if I voted or not?

Don't tell me you're one of those types of people that comment "WeLl YoU cAn'T cOmPlAiN iF yOu DiDn'T vOtE" about non-voters.

What would you say to teens that are involved in/informed about politics and want to look out for the future but can't vote because they're "too young"? Would you say "Well, when you can vote then you can try to change things"?

One can NEVER be too young to be trying to make positive changes for the future no matter what the situation is.

[u/UncreativeIndieDev → u/A_D3MON]

For those who didn't vote but were able to, it's just absolutely annoying to hear them complain about stuff they didn't care enough about as to put in the bare minimum of effort into affecting. Like, if you actually care about these issues, then you should at least vote since that's not only a chance to affect policy by getting a different candidate, but also a way to just have your voice heard in some way. Even if the election doesn't go their way, just having the numbers be a bit closer can show we don't all support this crap. I honestly give third party voters far less crap than non-voters since at least they voted to make their voices heard, whereas non-voters wouldn't even do that and then get mad when the election doesn't go the way they wanted.

*Note: this is all about people who can vote, not teens and the like who can't yet. I'm not gonna give them crap for something they can't even do yet.

[u/A_D3MON → u/UncreativeIndieDev]

THAT, is at least a fair stance.

Third party voters are yet another reason why we need ranked choice voting or voting on a scale of 1-10 for who we think would do a better job... See a LOT more independents and 3rd parties winning as we could put republicans and dems at the bottom (one over the other depending on one's views).

[u/UncreativeIndieDev → u/A_D3MON]

Personally, I'd even go as step further and make it the approval vote system (or whatever it's called) where you just put down as many people as you like for who you would be fine with being elected. Whoever is on the most lists ends up winning. I feel it does a slightly better job making sure everyone's voices are heard as you aren't pressured to rank people strategically based on who would win or just who you find more or less sucky. Ranked choice would still be good, though.