• MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    All the prices went up.

    Also, 77m voted for Trump which is 32% of the voting age population.

    As a percentage of the overall population it is ~23%.

    That’s not a majority.

    • blackbeans@lemmy.zip
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      4 minutes ago

      The prices went up, and customers accepted that price. Bargaining after the deal is made generally doesn’t give you a strong position.

      The American definition of a voting majority is not relevant here. What matters is that Americans put Trump in place, knowing he would impose tariffs, making foreign products more expensive. Just because millions didn’t vote for him, doesn’t exclude them from the consequences.

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      34 minutes ago

      Please stop using that logic. The people that voted is a representative sample of the population, done. Is you’d forced every one of voting she to vote then it probably would have been similar result. Because people that didn’t want to go both will have their vote split randomly to candidates.

      Honestly given these two choices, not voting means you’re ok with either.

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        15 minutes ago

        This completely ignores both jerrymandering and voter suppression, both things real and impactful in US voting outcomes.

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      3 hours ago

      People who can vote and do not could just as easily have been lazy Trump voters as anything else. They’re political dark matter. They don’t absolve a populace.

      “Of the people who didn’t bother to make a choice at all, maybe most of those didn’t want this” is not a compelling argument.

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        3 hours ago

        The person above me said a majority voted for it and I corrected them. I’m not sure what relevance your comment has to our exchange.

        “Of the people who didn’t bother to make a choice at all, maybe most of those didn’t want this” is not a compelling argument.

        It’s just as well I didn’t make that argument then. I don’t appreciate being strawmanned.