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oooh the Silent Majorty stands with us!

yeah, sure

meanwhile, the actual majority is sleeping though this. Just like they sleep through every election cycle. If you could somehow ran on "oh, was that today? I had no idea" you would be the eternal incumbent

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think in a true democracy if the majority of people don't vote, the election needs to be run again with different candidates

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Soviet elections had "against all" choice.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago

I remember textbooks in my formative years bringing that up as a bad thing to show how "fake" the elections were, not tolerating meaningful dissent away from pre-selected leaders. wonder-who-thats-for

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

Waow that's actually a cool option ngl

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

But the US told me that the Soviet Union was an evil anti-democracy where no one has a say!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Was this “post Soviet”? I can’t find anything about it being during the USSR

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Post-Soviet states inherited it, but as far as I know all of them removed this option since.

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

Did you mean to ask @[email protected] that? Lol

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Most have correctly realized that bourgeois democracy is a sham for working people

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In China that would result in the election having to be redone at a lower level lol^[allegedly, I haven't found much text about chinese democracy, but as far as I can tell that's sort of how it works. Same way it works in an unspecified african country I cannot recall the name of lol]

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Not even registered to vote rat-salute

You’re welcome

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Thank you for your service

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They're voting for my Johnson?!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

the other candidates are soft on Johnson

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It’s also so awesome that even though people voted one way, it turned out the opposite anyway due to bullshit

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I’m not an American, but in my country from what I’ve read our non voters when polled on who they would have voted for if forced to generally vote along similar lines as what the election reflected (with some outlier areas obviously.) Is it similar in the states? Or does it skew heavily to one side?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Are you saying the solution to people not caring who becomes president is to force them to vote by gunpoint

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Looked it up, for 2018-2022 non-voters are split with a slight lead towards Republicans (46%v41%).
PEW article as source

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

That misses the point so obviously