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Re:TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Eve... by Rexxar on Friday December 19, 2025 @06:26PM (#46332171)
A citizen that don't vote for the most important election is clearly not very active.
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Re:TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Eve... by irishcoffee on Friday December 19, 2025 @06:53PM (#46332364)
My cousin was in a coma for 3 months over the election. They didn’t vote. Should we just deport them now?

Was a stupid fucking take.

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Re:TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Eve... by Rexxar on Friday December 19, 2025 @08:08PM (#46332830)
Is there a particular meaning to 'active/inactive' that I don't know that justifies your out-of-proportion outrage? What is the problem with observing that 35% of Americans just don't care enough about this subject to go vote ?
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Re:TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Eve... by irishcoffee on Saturday December 20, 2025 @09:54AM (#46336608)
Math.

“Half the country voted for X” isn’t accurate math. People just excuse away hard, hard logical facts and it makes me pretty fucking mad.

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Re:TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Eve... by beAbU on Saturday December 20, 2025 @03:32AM (#46334515)
What a stupid fucking strawman. Was ~35% of the US population in a coma when the elections happened?

We are talking here about people who chose not to vote.

Strictly, yes your cousin is a passive citizen. But no sane human will call them out on that because obviously they had bo other choice.

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