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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by grandempire on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:53AM (#43075636)
> How un-democratic, huh?

Why are you using a quote about censorship and free speech to talk about the outcome of an election? Those aren’t related things.

Nobody thinks majority vote makes truth, but majority of electoral voters does determine the president of the US.

> Even if Trump had 99% of the votes

It sounds like your previous comment expressing concern about the number of voters was in bad faith.

> Trump voters have no clue how tariffs work

I noticed this actually isn’t an argument against tariffs.

I don’t think it’s going to look pretty if we starting quizzing low class democratic voters on economic questions either. This has no bearing on whether the policy is a good idea or not.

Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by computerthings on Monday February 17, 2025 @01:30AM (#43075870)
> It sounds like your previous comment expressing concern about the number of voters was in bad faith.

Heh. Nope. A minority of Americans voted for a fascist, not half of them. That's a fact. 23%, 28%, doesn't matter in light of "half of Americans".

And in addition even if 99% voted for fascism it wouldn't give them the right to impose fascism on 1%. If you don't see how the quote relates to that, how it's an analogy, well.

> I don’t think it’s going to look pretty if we starting quizzing low class democratic voters on economic questions either. This has no bearing on whether the policy is a good idea or not.

It has a bearing on the legitimacy of saying "people want this". If I send you an email saying "click here to get a million bucks", it means you wanted a million bucks, not catch malware. Now you can say "but cybersecurity has nothing to do with elections" and tell me I'm arguing in bad faith because you're not even trying to follow ^^