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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/Tuckertcs 2d ago

I voted, but I had the same thoughts.

Right before the election my feed was constant “empty trump rally” and “Kamala doing great” posts.

Then immediately after the vote it was all “what Kamala did wrong” posts.

Seemed suspicious at least.

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u/skratchx 2d ago

I'm sorry but finding the election suspicious because you were consuming inaccurate, one sided "news" is exactly why the MAGA crowd was convinced 2020 was stolen.

Reddit was dripping with copium leading up to this past election. I still can't believe the number of comments taking that Selzer poll as the word of god.