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Blue Maga not real but vote blue(lemmy.world)

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User tries to troll progressive politics by saying just vote to remove Republicans. Proceeds to punch left when people raise why more than voting is needed

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AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml
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Despite decrying liberal democratic elections and their meaninglessness, the fr*nch and ukian elections put me back on the election “analysis” mindset. I feel compelled to respond to the OP from reddit.world. Is it true that higher turnout simply means democrats win?

2012: 58.6% turnout, Obama wins
2016: 60.1% turnout, Trump wins
2020: 66.6% turnout, Biden wins

The issue with truisms is that they usually aren’t true. When someone says “the average age of fox news viewers is 67” they imply these people will basically die by the next decade, but leave it the fact that this average isn’t going up by 4 every election cycle.

Also it’s a unique fun to see lemmitors fight by calling each other out on how much of a redditor each other are.

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Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Also trying to make definitive statements about sonethhing that happens once every 4 years is meaningless.

There are a huge list of factors around every election, this one happens to have the quirk of both options being widely detested.

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