• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    24 hours ago

    Harris did better than Biden in the key swing states. Be mad at the people who turned out for Trump.

    Those of you downvoting me, look at the vote totals for swing states in 2020 vs 2024. It is insane to me that “be mad at the people who voted for Trump” is a hot take.

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      Look at the number of eligible voters that didn’t vote. Their point is 100% valid, just like it has been for pretty much every election. This time is just extra inexcusable because of what we’ve collectively lost.

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        Their point isn’t valid when you cannot guarantee every non voter was actually a lost vote for Harris. You don’t know who they were going to vote for.

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                  History can very much let you infer how the future will go. That’s literally how we determine what might happen.

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                    Well history did tell that convicted felon wouldn’t become the president but that didn’t come true.

                    So yes history can give an inkling about the future but it is just that, nothing more, not an absolute.

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        I mean, yes they do? If Harris had won those swing states, she’d have won the EC. And her turnout was higher than Biden’s. It’s just that Trump’s was even higher.