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byrsilvergun ( 571051 ) writes:
For a world where America no longer leads.
Is really frustrating how little people understand how the American empire functions. Simply put we leverage our national debt in order to keep the US dollar overly strong allowing us to bring in huge amounts of cheap imports worth much much much more than the interest on the debt.
That system is the only thing that's let you keep ahead of the rapacious oligarchs who have been using productivity gains in automation to devour your wages and your quality of lif
byh33t l4x0r ( 4107715 ) writes:
Trump won that election very comfortably, complaining about voter suppression just undermines anything else you have to say.
bykarmawarrior ( 311177 ) writes:
Trump got a plurality of votes, the last time we had that instead of a majority was when Ross Perot split the vote. There was no big national third party this time though to split the vote like that.
I don't think any rational person would say he won "comfortably".
I'm reluctant to believe voter suppression because of the lack of evidence, but if such evidence was found, I'd hardly be surprised, especially given the the difference in candidates, with Trump barely campaigning and apparently mentally breaking
byAnonymous Coward writes:
In five of the last nine presidential elections, the guy who got sworn in did not have a majority of the popular vote. Because the red states have proportionately more electors than voters, it's going to be the case frequently that a Republican president doesn't have the majority of the votes.
Trump annihilated Harris on a state-by-state basis which is, you know, how elections are determined. Pointing out that Harris got a lot of votes because California went decisively for her is meaningless. It's like pointing out that Trump was more potent sexually or that he has bigger hands, it's just entirely irrelevant to the election and raising the issue makes you sound like a sore loser or at the very least, uninformed.
The issue was, Kamala was a disastrously bad candidate for president and there were real reasons people hated Biden (not least being, two unpopular wars and a whole lot of resentment over the horrible way the Covid response went with no accountability, not to mention the "culture war" stuff which was really pissing people off, and who even knows what was going on with all those migrants), and she literally could not name one thing she would do differently from Biden.
Trump had already been president once. He was "fine," and he had a track record of fixing some of the things people were pissed at Biden over. Like, he famously didn't start any wars and he was promising to end the wars the US was in.
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byjacks smirking reven ( 909048 ) writes:
Like, he famously didn't start any wars and he was promising to end the wars the US was in.
Except he didn't, he just signed Doha without any input from the Afghani government and made the date after the election in true kick-the-can fashion. Biden did the deed and took the hit, like a President is supposed to.
Also Trump bombed Syria, escalated the drone war and assassinated an Iranian general on another countries soil. Agree with those actions or not but "didn't start any wars" isn't making much of a case.
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