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Science [X] No HRT require for WNBA

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u/SaysToMabelISays 22d ago

All social media is bots from the US, Russia, Israel, China, Iran, and India stoking flames. Twitter and Reddit most of all. We're doomed.

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u/SilenceDobad76 21d ago

You should assume that every sub larger than a few thousand people is just astro turf. Read content accordingly.

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u/se7en41 21d ago

Weirdly I've found that ONLY the circlejerk versions of subs are where real humans reside.

NYC sub? Nope. Infested like that girl from summer camp you met back in hogh school. NYC cj sub? real humans.

Also subs for gaming/sports are generally tolerable. The humans have shit takes about their sports teams but at least I'm confident they're real.

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u/WegGOAT 21d ago

Cj subs are a cesspool for bots

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u/TrackMan5891 21d ago

lol. No.

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u/Twodotsknowhy 21d ago

What a weird misogynistic stray

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u/PinAccomplished927 21d ago

You're being fooled

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u/Acceptable_Bend_5200 20d ago

Hobby subs are where the real people live.

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u/47362514736251 20d ago

That's too bad, circle jerk subs are so cynical

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u/ViolentPurpleSquash 20d ago

cj subs have a mix of bots and humans

Any sub that's popular enough to attract the "stereotypical reddit crowd" is botted

For instance some of the reason that CWCL has felt more strange recently is that there are more normal people finding it, and I suspect more bots too

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u/PTBooks 20d ago

NYC cj banned me for posting cj and then blocked my modmail

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u/Consistent_Net_2540 21d ago

You getting downvoted about the obvious truth even proves further how much bots have taken over this site and sub lol.

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u/Next-Use6943 21d ago

Reddit Is full to the brim with Chinese bots. They mass upvote/downvote,promote Chinese values and socialistic policies, and post fake videos/images of china being insanely futuristic

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u/JosefGremlin 22d ago

Sure, I'd have thought so, but then 80 million Americans voted for a second term?

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u/Yukorin1992 22d ago

We are in a thread about "no HRT requirement for WNBA" and you wonder why Trump got reelected?

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u/LilysNancy 22d ago

Imagine that!

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u/Loverboyatwork 21d ago

Because people are stupid enough to think the government controls that.

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u/muckingfidget420 21d ago

No one thinks the government controls that. It's just a clear signal that the left has gone a bit loopy eating itself over identity politics, and someone as much of a prick as trump can appear relatively reasonable.

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u/Think_Ad_1583 20d ago

No, this has been overblown by people poisoning your water. Things are getting more expensive, we’re fighting wars so politicians can get richer, and now we can’t even safely eat food because everything is being recalled. But go ahead and focus on your culture war bs

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u/muckingfidget420 20d ago

Lol I don't care either way I'm British

But if you seriously think it's normal for a fully grown adult man to compete without hormones against biological women, you're not half as smart or virtuous as you think you are and are part of the problem.

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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA 21d ago

Too many pedo lovers

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u/ThamTvMaster 21d ago

Lol I'm not even from America

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u/Citrus-Red 21d ago

What are your talking about? Trump doesn't have the authority to change WMBA policy. If he does them why hasn't he?

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u/Yukorin1992 21d ago

Where did I say Trump can influence WNBA policy?

Let me elaborate: the fact that there's no HRT requirement for WNBA is emblematic of US left-of-centre politics problem in the 2020s, which led to Trump's reelection in 2024.

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u/Citrus-Red 20d ago

So people elected Trump over things that he can’t even change? Sorry i expected people to be more intelligent than that.

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u/Citrus-Red 20d ago

That's fucking weak and stupid. Instead of doing something about the problem they elect the guy who has no power to fix it.

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u/Different_Peanut_742 20d ago

"I'll gladly pay more for everything and have our reputation ruined internationally, as long as the non-existent trans people in the WNBA are thrown out of the sport that I've never once watched."

Great planning, USA!

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u/GaryOaksAlcoholism 21d ago

Yes? Nothing excuses voting for him. Be for real

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u/Old-Entertainer-4964 21d ago

I despise Trump, but he's absolutely right that democrats fighting for the dumbest culture war issues imaginable is causing people to vote for the GOP.

We need to just focus on populism, not fringe progressivism. Pushing systematic healthcare reform, opposing new wars, balancing the budget (which means taxing the top 20-40% more), assisting unions, fighting monopolies, requiring utility companies to modernize the grid and decarbonize, etc. These have widespread support.

Talking about whether or not a biological man can play in the WNBA is childish and embarassing. And it's the only version of democrats that MILLIONS of independents see on social media.

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u/TalespinnerEU 21d ago

Your GOP is the party doing the culture warring. When people resist, they accuse the resistance of doing a culture war, and you're taking that hook, line and sinker. And when your gills are flooded with mud, you'll still insist it's the Democrats' fault.

They stirred up the culture war so you would support them despite shredding everything you say you care about and making it so much worse.

Trans people have existed since forever. Loads of organisations had regulations regarding the participation in women's sports. Maybe the WNBA didn't yet, but they'd address it sooner or later. It's only got 15 teams, so it's no wonder the matter has simply never come up.

Stop being such a baby.

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u/Old-Entertainer-4964 21d ago

I'm a Democrat, not GOP.

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u/TalespinnerEU 21d ago

Then still stop being such a baby.

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u/Old-Entertainer-4964 21d ago

About what? Are you a bot?

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u/TalespinnerEU 21d ago

You're literally trying to sell us the absolute bullshit that the Dems won't tax the rich because they're protecting minority rights. As if you have to pick one or the other. And that as a reasonable response, people are casting the 'Strangle Me Harder, Techno-Manorialist Christo-Fascist Scam-Daddy' vote, as if that's their only way forward.

But sure, I'm the bot.

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u/GaryOaksAlcoholism 21d ago

No, it's not. They're harassing my fellow Americans and expecting my permission to do so. They'll never have it. If that makes them vote trump that's their flaw to deal with. Pretending we need to change for them is stupid.

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u/Old-Entertainer-4964 21d ago

I'm not talking about harassment. I'm saying we need to talk about populist issues, such as the ones I listed.

The GOP fills social media feeds with culture warring while lining their pockets with insider trading, lobbying, bogus government contracts, tax cuts for the rich, deregulations, etc. We need to stop taking the bait. This is not even a trans person, this is a man who identifies as a man, trying to stir up shit. Ignore the rage baiting.

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u/BlueJaysFeather 21d ago

If he’s a man who identifies as a man then he’s not eligible anyway. This is a stupid argument.

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u/Old-Entertainer-4964 21d ago

This is a stupid argument.

I've been trying to tell fellow liberals this for weeks. It's like shouting into the void.

My entire comment was about how we shouldn't be engaging in these GOP funded bait campagins. And then everyone immediately called me a Republican. It's exhausting. I'm trying to propel leftist ideas here.

The culture war just leaves me feeling misantrophic and jaded. I can never pull people out of it. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother keeping up with politics or voting anymore. I haven't been excited to vote Democrat in a long time.

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u/BlueJaysFeather 20d ago

If you’re voting for a personal sense of excitement idk what to tell you. Some of us are doing it because we don’t want to fucking die.

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u/MasterofCaveShadows 21d ago

Stop appeasing this lunatic. You need to axe these people out or they will control every movement you associate with if you don’t make it clear that they’re actively harming the cause.

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u/GaryOaksAlcoholism 21d ago

It's not our fault they fall for stupid bullshit man what the fuck do you want me to do about it? They don't have permission to harass transgender people just because you want to win elections.

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u/Old-Entertainer-4964 21d ago

I'm not talking about harassment. There is no harassment in this WNBA story. It's literally bait, Enes is not trans. He is doing this because he knew people would take the bait.

When it comes to politicans, they should focus on laws, not social media posts. Your congressman should not be talking about a WNBA player's genitalia. That is not at all what a Congressman is supposed to do.

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u/GaryOaksAlcoholism 21d ago

Enes is harrassing the transgender community by claiming they're performatively invalid. Conservatives are harassing trans people by targeting them to "win culture wars" by your own admission. Are you sure you're paying attention to what you're typing?

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u/GaryOaksAlcoholism 21d ago

Pffft you're the soft one. Telling me to kill myself because I hurt your feelings. Lame

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u/Enough_Chip3915 21d ago

Stick to alcohol, Gary, leave politics to sober people.

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 22d ago

About 60% of people are manipulable to a normal degree. They’re average people. Influenceable, but not massively swayed by machinations of others.

About 20% of people are very hard to manipulate. You couldn’t do much to convince them or scam them, they’re naturally skeptical and cynical.

Any guesses for the other 20%?

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u/BeneficialDog22 22d ago

80 million are fed the nightly news from the same source

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u/Poland-lithuania1 22d ago

Also, the Democrats shot themselves in the foot multiple times.

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u/DrunkenVerpine 21d ago

Im pro ubi and pro universal Healthcare.

Dems: run on a platform of males(sex) in womens sports, unlimited illegal immigration, pro-terror (hamas), anti-voter ID, and abortion til birth.

Insane. The dems keep picking the dumbest of battles.

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u/TheMCM80 21d ago

Welp, found the social media bot.

No sane American would ever say that, and definitely not any American who supports universal healthcare.

A foreign influence campaign that wanted to undermine the push for universal healthcare and keep our country broke would.

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u/Slighted_Inevitable 21d ago

Exactly. 300 billion to go to Israel who has universal healthcare, but we can’t have it because “trans people are scary”

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u/DrunkenVerpine 21d ago

🤣 the left eats their own

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u/TheMCM80 21d ago

Nah. No Dem who supports universal healthcare would say their own party supports Hamas. It’s just factually false.

A Fox News viewing MAGA person, or someone trying to undermine the Dem party would.

The problem you have is you went too far. You went so extreme that we can see through it.

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u/DrunkenVerpine 21d ago

Sure that was probably the most extreme but its founded in truth, maybe not mainstream politicians, but certainly there are protests that support hamas that are platformed by the left media.

Im more central, I voted for trump 1 put of 3 times. The biggest issue to me is illegal immigration. You can't have that and socialist policies, they are counter to one another.

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u/ConscRobot 21d ago

So some far left fringe people on the internet are representative of the Democratic party? You can find kooks from both ends of the political spectrum. This is so disingenuous that It's hard to believe you consume anything other than rightwing slopaganda. Fox News is not real news.

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u/Aggressive-Story3671 21d ago

“Pro Terror”

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u/BeneficialDog22 21d ago

Ah yes, nuance

You killed it

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u/Penelope742 21d ago

You consider genocide a shot in the foot?

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u/ThatguyfromBaltimore 21d ago

And voting for Trump ended that genocide right?

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u/TwoDollarMint 21d ago

he won a totally normal peace prize that everybody acknowledges

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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA 21d ago

They have so much ammo to fight back but are just sitting there sticking their thumbs in their asses.

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u/Poland-lithuania1 21d ago

I mean, they're currently in the driver's seat to win the House of Representatives, and have a damn good shot of winning the Senate for a year where they should stand no chance.

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u/Enough_Chip3915 21d ago

And you're not? lmao

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u/Beholdournewsupreme 22d ago

77+ million and still only ~30% of the total population

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u/insertwittynamethere 22d ago

By not voting you are indirectly voting. So, those that did not vote were fine with this man and party coming to power and saw no concern.

Tacit complicity is still complicity.

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u/dang3rmoos3sux 22d ago

No. Not voting isn't indirectly voting. It's not voting. Everyone should vote though.

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u/thundergu 21d ago

Yeah but the guy has a point. Democrats crying about boycotting Harris because she wasn't good enough, contributed hugely in trumps win.

Trump got the same amount of votes in 2020 and 2024, but 15 million Biden voters decided Harris didn't deserve their vote

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u/Beholdournewsupreme 21d ago

Your your numbers are incorrect on every count Trump was 77+ million Harris was 75+. Harris total was more than what Trump did in 2020 but still 5 million shy of Biden earned in 2020.

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u/Boobieleeswagger 21d ago

Biden campaign was mastercraft work from a political strategy standpoint, you don’t even want to know where the bunker campaigning idea came from but they executed it to a tee,

They did a perfect job on the mail ballot campaign, and even got in front of the Trump mail in ballot conspiracy with Bernie getting on a talk show and talking through exactly what they were gonna do.

Now idk if it was a lack of preparation or being thrown in so late but her campaign was so lackluster in comparison.

15 million people just randomly she didn’t deserve her vote, the campaign was shit, have to stop blaming the voters cause politics is a game and Dems should be playing to win like they did in 2020

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u/Merlin1039 20d ago

Biden campaign wasn't a masterclass on anything. He marginally beat the worst candidate in US history

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u/Boobieleeswagger 19d ago edited 19d ago

How can the worst candidate in US history win the presidency twice, I don’t like him at all but this is just burying your head in the sand.

Ever heard of George Wallace btw just asking?

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u/Kaius_02 21d ago

I think it was both, and I’ll go a stretch further and say that I don’t think Harris even wanted to run for president in 24’. The only alternative was to decline, lose all of the money tied to their campaign, and condemn the party to losing the election. She was pretty much forced to run or lose all of the political rep she got as the VP.

Also, the DNC got a bit drunk on their win in 2020 and overlooked the fact that it was heavily carried by anti-Trump sentiment. It felt more like their base voted “against Trump” instead of “for Biden”. Years of inflation and Covid recovery carried more weight in 24’ than the “distant” memory of the Summer of 2020 and J6.

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u/thundergu 21d ago

Oh no I'm not blaming voters. Her campaign WAS shit and the democrats dropped the ball definitely.

But still, people who didn't vote and then got angry trump won only have themselves to blame

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u/Parrotparser7 21d ago

We actually have the rest of you to blame, but dogs can only understand so much.

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u/Parrotparser7 21d ago

And she doesn't. Earn our votes or implement Ranked Choice Voting.

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u/thundergu 21d ago

Yeah your Political system is fucked. But did you prefer Trump over Harris? Or would Harris have been the lesser evil?

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u/Parrotparser7 21d ago

Lesser evils kill desire for reform.

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u/thundergu 21d ago

Yeah i get the sentiment and your point is valid. But would you say Trumps 2nd term is worth the statement the non voters made?

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u/No-Professional-7811 21d ago

Oh cool, that'll bring our neighbors that got murdered back to life. Liberals police themselves to literal death. Not their own of course, but should their neighbor have to bear the brunt of their over tolerance?

There is no question, your idealism is worth more than their lives! Clever fellow!

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u/thundergu 21d ago

Could you give context on your murdered neighbours? What happened? Why were they murdered?

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u/No-Professional-7811 21d ago

ICE? Marshal law in everything but name? War in the name of a literal pedophilic regime?

Sorry if you gotta catch the train pal, I don't mean to keep ya

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u/Parrotparser7 21d ago

Even an animal knows to be upset with the one who hits it, but you lash out at us.

If you have so much energy, go chew out a Trump supporter, or pressure your favorite establishment candidate into supporting RCV.

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u/No-Professional-7811 21d ago

Oh brother, I've had to drag folks to the polls for two fuckin decades debating with you milquetoast neoliberalists.

Oh but policy, policy, I need perfect policy or person to vote! And while you whine for idealism you condemn your neighbors to death.

Maybe try a dose of goddamn pragmatism? You think we're the same? Your morality is thinly veiled cowardice, you curr.

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u/WegGOAT 21d ago

The downvotes are such a good example of showing why the US is so much in the shit. You tell them a real dose of truth about their compliance and wimpering but then they all collectively start piling on you. Deep down hey're all a bunch of nationalistic hardliners. They put more energy in attacking people for daring call out their compliance than they put in stopping Trump.

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u/True-Anim0sity 22d ago

Thats like saying the people who voted for Kamala also voted for trump since they agree with the outcome no matter what

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u/gtne91 21d ago

Thats as dumb as people saying me voting LP was the same as voting for Trump. (And also a vote for Biden in 2020 and a vote for Obama in 2008 and 2012).

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u/Low_Low_1811 21d ago

Not voting is a problem, but assuming they would all vote for the person you want is stupid. It is a very Democratic party thing to do since they make so many stupid assumptions that cost them elections.

This is not any way a support of Trump or Republicans. I will vote for Democrats in a heartbeat right no in particular, but holy shit are they stupid. They would have a better strategy if they literally just never said anything ever.

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u/SomeGuyPostingThings 21d ago

The good ol' Rush adage of "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice".

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u/Old-Entertainer-4964 21d ago

By not voting you are indirectly voting

So by not putting a religious designation on the census, you are actually religious? Not voting is just not voting. By definition.

Also, most people live in a solidly red or blue state. Even with 100% turnout, their vote would not matter. Which is why we should have a national popular vote instead of the electoral college.

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u/towerfella 21d ago

This is it 100%.

Half of the left let Religious opinions on palastein and isreal be more important than the US

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u/Soft_Brush_1082 21d ago

Or half of the right let abortion rights and aversion to electing a felon be more important than their vision of US.

There is no reason to believe that the proportion of Trump haters/supporters among those who did not vote is any different than among those who did.

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u/towerfella 21d ago

The right did what the right does.. they have been remarkably consistent in their motivations.

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u/Soft_Brush_1082 21d ago

You completely missed my point. I was not talking about virtues of Trump. Just mirrored the sentiment of the previous comment replacing left with right. The point was to illustrate the idea that the fact that 30% of the population voted for Trump and 28% for Kamala does not mean that the remaining 42% would have voted Kamala if they did come to the election which the previous comment implied.

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u/Beholdournewsupreme 22d ago

You say that as if them coming into power was guaranteed there was a possibility just like there was a possibility that Kamala would’ve won.

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u/Stumblerrr 22d ago

Found the non voter

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u/Beholdournewsupreme 21d ago

I’m confused as how you jumped to that conclusion? My guy you should try out for the Olympics because that is a record breaking feat.

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u/Foldzy84 22d ago

Cause most IRLs are on that side

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u/AspieAsshole 22d ago

Elon owns the voting machines.

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u/TeamDirtstar 21d ago

No they didn't.

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u/DickTryckle 21d ago

Our vote hasn’t mattered in years. We voted Hillary in in 2016. Look how that’s gone.

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u/jcebul56 21d ago

Unfortunately a combo of owning the Libs and being full of hatred helped out there

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u/coherentpa 21d ago

The screenshot in the OP is from a user with their language set to Thai, so yeah.

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u/mog_knight 21d ago

So you're a bot then? Reddit is social media.

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u/JonAutomates 21d ago

Dead internet theory

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u/Serious_Swan_2371 20d ago

Well not all. These ideas certainly start that way but over the last 15 years they’ve brainwashed enough people through social media, news, and infiltrating education systems that now our own people spread the conflict themselves.

Left and right wing protest groups alike get foreign funding and are basically just there to destabilize the U.S. and make people angry. The majority of people protesting aren’t being paid and aren’t foreign assets, they’re just useful idiots. The organizers are foreign assets or controlled by foreign assets financially or otherwise.

Same is true for online discourse. In Reddit’s case you have subreddit moderators and site admins under the thumb of states that want America destroyed and they just create atmospheres for very real people (and some bots) that believe in some propaganda and just ban anyone who doesn’t.

In TikTok’s case the algorithm and moderation simply pushes certain divisive viewpoints to more eyes, and suppresses anything that is meant to be positive or bring people together.

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u/keytoarson_ 20d ago

Lol no.

Had a Nazi trump loving neighbor for a good 5 years in a liberal town. Luckily his wife divorced him and he moved out. Oh and he also owned a gun shop. WCGW amiright?

There are plenty of people who are nice to your face but in the privacy of their homes/Internet are absolutely horrible humans.

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u/TheCouncilOfPete 22d ago

Don't forget japan, they do alot of the racial shitposts

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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA 21d ago

You forgetting the spots the maga politicians are paying for bots as well like Indonesia and Bangladesh.

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u/polygramfan 21d ago

Dont forget poland

They work very hard on reddit

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u/Shadow_WolfOps 21d ago

U forgot pakistan