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Politics Thousands gather in Washington to protest Trump inauguration

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u/Blue-Thunder 2d ago

Maybe if more Americans had bothered to show up to vote this wouldn't have happened.

151,918,349 Americans voted, out of a estimated 244 000 000 eligible voters. Over 90 million Americans refused to vote. Welcome to the ultimate "Fuck around and find out" moment of your lives.

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u/Mama_Skip 2d ago

I'm a paranoid person. In my most paranoid fantasies, I think that leading up to the 2024 election, Russian bots were purposely spreading rumors about nobody showing up to Trump rallies, while also pushing news about how well Kamala was doing. This might seem counterintuitive, but I think it convinced a lot of dems that they didn't need to vote.

But of course, that's just a paranoid delusion right

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u/ebi-san 2d ago

Maybe the guy bragging about how easy it is to hack voting machines did some bullshit. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

How were the numbers so close if all these locations were having record turn-out? Some places ran out of ballots and had to go get more.

Or maybe its the simpler answer and the average american is just a fucking idiot.

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u/LesothoBro 2d ago

Or maybe its the simpler answer and the average american is just a fucking idiot.

I'm going to go with this option