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Re:Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads ed... by Terretta on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:37PM (#43191410)
> More people voted for it than against.

What's meant by "it"?

• 77,302,580 voted for this administration (49.8%)

• 77,935,722 voted against this administration (50.2%)

Source: https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024pres...

Re:Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads ed... by araes on Thursday February 27, 2025 @12:05AM (#43191532)
I'd actually like to see the Greens and the Libertarians get together and run a candidate. Oliver (Libs) got 650,126, and Stein got 862,049. Put em together and you've got enough voters to actually have a reasonable chance of grass roots momentum, exponential involvement, compounding returns on capital / effort, large donor buy-ins, numbers that meet news media minima for free coverage, and long-term viability.

The Green's usually are identified as being libertarian socialism anyways, so it would not be a horrible cooperation to hang out with Libertarians and discuss how to make environmentalism; nonviolence; and social justice work with civil liberties; non-interventionism; and laissez-faire capitalism.

And then they could state that they're not a spoiler, since they draw voters relatively equally from what might otherwise be Democrats and Republicans.

Re:Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads ed... by bitshiftfaced on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:17AM (#43194094)
Thanks. If I could, I would edit my comment with, "more people voted for it than any other alternative" so that my comment could run ok through the HN compiler.