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  • pjwestin@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlMath
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    10 days ago

    I’m American, I definitely learned this stuff in 7th or 8th grade. Granted, I didn’t use it past high school, and I forgot it before I finished college, but that’s definitely when I learned it.



  • Let’s fix your fixing of my analogy. Imagine the two restaurants you mentioned exist. Now imagine thinking the people who don’t go out to eat are entitled.

    And yeah, I know you’re going to tell me that elections have consequences for everyone, whether they vote or not, but most people who don’t vote don’t see it that way. Sure, a small percentage of them are withholding their vote as a protest, but most of them are working class people that are barely getting by. They’re not going waste what little free time they have voting for a candidate if they don’t think it will help them. So stop trying to shame them into voting and give them something to vote for.


  • This post is citing data from 2016? So it’s referencing something that didn’t happen. Also, Bush beat Gore by 537 votes. Sure, if Nader hadn’t run Gore would have won, but you could just as easily blame the loss on the Florida GOP, “accidently,” purging thousands of legitimate voters by, “mistaking,” them for felons, or on the Butterfly Ballot that caused an untold number of voters to select the wrong candidate. I guess my goal here lol is to point out when people are blaming their preferred candidate’s loss on a mostly statistically insignificant portion of voters, and if you don’t like hearing what other people have to say you don’t have to post yknow.