• Substance_P@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Donald J. Trump got 312 electoral votes and approximately 77,303,568 popular votes (49.81%), while Kamala Harris received 226 electoral votes and approximately 75,019,230 popular votes (48.34%)

    But sure lets bang on about how Americans are getting the economy they voted for 🥴

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          I had to wait in line for 4 hours to vote just to come home and realize I was going to have to survive a fascist hell hole for a minimum of 4 more years. I’m not going to thumb my nose at people that had to leave, they don’t make it easy.

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      The US election system is very anti-democratic. And yet it never seems to be a big political issue there. Until that changes, the 50% reasonable people there will be held hostage by the 50% morons.

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        Great link, thanks for that. It’s a good read. I was going to mention this aspect in my post above. I didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole in case I would trigger the finger pointing and conspiracy theorist claims, but now we’re here. This is incredible, and I have read other legitimate claims like this. I wish we could post sub-stack posts in a dedicated community somewhere on Lemmy, maybe its something I should think about.

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      And those numbers are false. Sibce he clearly cheated in three swing states. Probably fucking nore but we will never know.

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        It wasn’t exactly brilliant, but they did back the progressive against the wall saying the elections were rigged against Maga laying a trap where progressives would have to defend the election system as fair. Then they cheated like the projecting little assholes they are.

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    First let’s talk about some of the latest numbers. We basically want our economy to do two things: 1) give everyone a job with a good income, and 2) keep prices stable.

    And herein lies the mistake. The trump administration has no intention of improving the quality of life of the people by increasing their buying power.

    A working class with more buying power is a stronger working class, and that’s not what Trump wants.

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      Also, that statement shows the profound depth of the capitalist Stockholm Syndrome. I would have hoped an economist would know better. On the contrary, our economy should give everyone a job with a good income. In the pie-in-the-sky case, we could provide a good living for everybody without anybody having to work. That was the vision of the future back in the mid-20th century.

      The model of everybody earning their right to a living through a job gets increasingly fraught as more and more work gets automated. But yeah, that’s exactly what the U.S. political class wants, to keep Americans are always desperate and striving, so that their wholesale wealth extraction operation can continue apace.

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    Yup and in 5-10 years when everyone is trading with everyone except the states (who?).

    Exxxxcelent.

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    4 days ago

    pretending like the empire that currently occupies north america is a nation with legitimate elections is not going to get you far sportsfans