• @Petter1@lemm.ee
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    -414 days ago

    No, it was not half of voting population; go and research how US voting “works”

    • @awesomesauce309@midwest.social
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      514 days ago

      Where do you think I’m from? More than half the people who got off their ass and went and voted, voted for this self declared dictator. I never said half the country.

      • Cethin
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        514 days ago

        No, he ended up below 50%. He had the plurality though. If you include RFK Jr. votes with Trump (which some people do for some reason) it’d be over half, but I wouldn’t. People voting for him explicitly weren’t voting for Trump.

      • @Petter1@lemm.ee
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        -214 days ago

        Half the people meaning half of the absolute number of people who went voting, which is not true

        Since each state votes for their members of the Electoral College, it could happen that, if you count each person who voted directly, you get no way near 50% voting for the president that gets elected

        This voting system is stupid, the idea of a law to pardon people as president is even more stupid.