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He was. A whole bunch of idiots decided that Kamala was no better than Trump, and simply didn't vote.
Look at the turn-out numbers. Millions of fewer people voted in this election than in the previous.
Yeah that’s why they make smug comments about fucking around with voting machines and Elon’s kid yelled “they’ll never know!” To which he embarrassingly laughed it off during an interview, like his dad was bragging in front of him and he was imitating him.
I dunno if they needed to or not, but I promise they fucked with the totals somehow.
Are you counting the millions of minority voters purged from the rolls or are you out here perpetuating more Russian/right-wing propaganda?
Let's see.
Here's data from NPR. I know, I know... while [checks notes] gregplast.com is a well known, unbiased source of truth, and NPR is just a two-bit right-wing mouthpiece, NPR's numbers reflect what we were seeing in Lemmy: the far left boycotting Kamala because of Biden's support of Israel and her refusal to divorce herself from the genocide, instead either refusing to vote or voting for the Russian shill Jill Stein. Latinos, particularly men, voting Red. White voters without college degrees turning up in record numbers. Meanwhile, the Council for Foreign Relations - practically another Republican think-tank, right? - reported that Kamala garnered over 6 million fewer votes than Biden did on 2020. Even if your source of gregplast is right and Harris got the 3M votes this gregplast says were purged, she still got 3M fewer votes than Biden.
And, in case you hadn't heard this before: the popular vote means nothing. This is only the second time in the past 5 Republican victories where they've won the popular vote - they lost the other 3 and still won, because of the electoral college. So it didn't matter a god-damned how many popular votes Kamala had; she needed to win the electoral college and she wasn't close.
What I hear is a bunch of idiots who protest voted because of Palestine (a cause which I am utterly aligned with, but understood Kamala was the lesser of two evils) now trying to justify and not take responsibility for letting Trump win.
If you voted for Kamala, then fine: you tried. But anyone who didn't vote, or voted for Jill Stein[1] or some other never-winner: they're why Trump won. Suck it up and take responsibility for your fuck up, learn, and don't make that mistake again.
If any of us get a chance to make that mistake again, that is. 2024 may have been the last election.
[1] I don't know how much I trust this source, but apparently Stein got a full 18% of the votes in Dearborn, Michigan, which has a large Arab-American population. However, from what I can find that's less than half of what she pulled from Hillary in 2016.
FWIW, MBFC rates them high credibility, least biased, and "high" on factual reporting.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/newsnation/
I mean okay it says a lot that you don't know who Greg Plast is, but we all have knowledge gaps. It says much more that you can't even be bothered to do a quick search to see who he is or even skim the article provided before discounting it entirely. If you had you'd find not only the evidence presented but the high profile and notably trustworthy people he's working with, and your rebuttal of the article would be a lot more informed and impactful.
I skimmed. He didn't seem particularly unbiased.
plus the voting machines were hacked the last 3 elections, and nobody said a word, not even the dems were raising a stink over this.
Last three? In 2000 in Velusia County, Florida Al Gore received negative votes.
He literally admitted publicly to Elon using Starlink to get votes. How dense could you people be?
Both can be true at the same time. They needed every vote possible.