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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Yeah, both parties went down from 2020 counts. We literally had something like 18m or 20m who didn't show up combined.

Wild stuff. Oh well, we rode this roller-coaster once, we ride it again. Maybe this round we don't lose 2% of our population?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'll bet we never find out how many were denied the ability to vote because of registration purges, bomb threats, and other malicious voter suppression.

But the fact that states both voted for abortion access at the state level and then also voted in all Republicans who will pass a national ban shows the voting population is stupid enough that this was the likely outcome anyway.

Fuck this country.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I think the Republican voters are to stupid or just in denial that Congress would ever vote for an abortion ban, even though they've clearly signaled they would. My boss is very right wing and last night he said to me that he thought it was weird all the commercials he saw for Sherrod Brown here in Ohio mentioned protecting abortion when it's legal here. When I said a nation ban would supercede our state constitution he just straight told me Congress would pass a national ban.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I literally heard an interview with a woman who said she voted Republican because, on the one hand, abortion "isn't that big of a deal" and ought to be left up to the states, but on the other, "doctors shouldn't be allowed to abort babies after they're born."

So this person thinks that doctors are murdering babies... and that should be allowed on a state by state basis. Which... boy oh boy, I'm not sure what to even do with a mind that works that way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I saw a comment earlier from a person who thinks abortion is chopping up a baby inside the womb and then sucking out the pieces.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Nah, those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up. And they have a whole playbook ready for it this time, so things are gonna get interesting and tragic sooner than later.

Bonus points that if we make through, we can look forward to new exciting wars about water resources and inhospitable climate problems

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

How about 60% down the road strictly due to climate change

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Maybe this round we don’t lose 2% of our population?

Definitely not.

It will be much higher than that this time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly, I'm praying for another pandemic. This world is so broken that it needs a reset.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Ill see you down in Arizona bay

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not seeing turnout down by 20m. Where are you seeing this data? Note, we haven't even finished counting all the votes.

Admittedly, I was expecting there to be overwhelmingly high turnout and there wasn't that from what I've seen.

The dude won the popular vote. I'm sure a lot of the shady bullshit that happened all around the country to suppress voting inflated his lead a little bit but I don't think it was substantial enough to explain this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nearly every news outlet has reported record voter turnout, but look at the vote counts from 2020 vs this year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wait until all the ballots are counted. Ballots still being counted aren't in those totals but, obviously, they finished counting 2020. Shit, California is still like 60% counted at this point. And they're at 10 million votes counted... that's like 6.5 million more votes just estimating CA.