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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by codingdave on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:22AM (#42933447)
If we are going to discuss this, we should be clear about the details. "Americans voted for this" is a hot take. Some did. Many did not vote at all. Of those who voted, Trump barely won those votes. It was just enough to get the electoral college votes. Even those who did vote for him did not vote for his current Project 2025-based plan. On the contrary, his campaign denied he was going to do all this.
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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by Blackthorn on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:30AM (#42933609)
If you don't vote, you effectively vote for the winner.

When the 49ers lost the 2024 Super Bowl, the second and third string players didn't go around saying they didn't really lose because they never hit the field. No, they lost.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by taylodl on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:09PM (#42935327)
Excellent analogy!
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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by subsection1h on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:35PM (#42936664)
> If you don't vote, you effectively vote for the winner.

Yes, if the Electoral College wasn't a thing.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by johnnyanmac on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:36AM (#42946160)
If you didn't vote in a swing state, I don't even know what to say.

But you'd also be surprised how many non-swings could swing if they had enough non-voters vote.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by 9283409232 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:30AM (#42933594)
> On the contrary, his campaign denied he was going to do all this.

People believed the wolf when he said he wasn't going to hurt the sheep.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by the_snooze on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:35AM (#42933709)
Trump has been the dominant figure in American politics for almost a decade now. It's quite obvious who he is and what he stands for. And he's more popular now than ever before. That's the reality. Accepting that and planning around it is the first step to countering it. Burying your head in the sand and saying "people don't actually want this!" is unactionable talk.
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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by troyvit on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:00PM (#42936985)
> Many did not vote at all.

If they didn't vote they voted for the winner. America (including me, because voting wasn't enough) earned this 100%.

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