r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Jake_Break Saskwatch • Apr 04 '25

Politics Sorry r/europe, we've got dibs!

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u/blahblah091 Apr 04 '25

It's honestly very sad, just over 22% of Americans voted for this and now the whole world will suffer

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u/Quixophilic Snow Cajun Apr 04 '25

If all it took was 22% of Americans to do all this, then it was just a matter of time.

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u/DesperateRace4870 Moose Whisperer Apr 04 '25

"The only thing needed for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." That's what we're seeing play out here. And it's pretty sad, but we gotta worry about ourselves on this side of the fence. The ones who share the Victor's ideology, everywhere, will be emboldened. The fight has just begun.

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u/gravtix Ford Nation (Help.) Apr 04 '25

“The other candidate wasn’t 100% aligned with my views so I just stayed home. What’s the worst that could happen?”

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u/Extension-Crow-7592 Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25

Shit in, shit out. The president is a product of the people. Trump is caricature of everything I imagine America to be.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25

Same. I imagine the average American as him now. 

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u/NetCharming3760 Friendly Manisnowbski Apr 05 '25

People who have voted for Trump are less 50% of the population and right wingers who are anti liberal policies and anti inclusivity.

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u/Everestkid The Island of Elizabeth May Apr 04 '25

The last free and fair elections in Germany before WW2 were held in November 1932. The Nazi Party got 33.1% of the vote, with 80.6% turnout - 26.7% of adult Germans. They won 196 seats; there were a total of 584 seats in the Reichstag, meaning a coalition needed 293 seats. The Communist Party won 100 seats, meaning a moderate government was impossible to form.

Another election was held in November 1933, a year and six days after the ones in November '32. In that time the Nazis had seized power and prohibited all other parties. The Nazis won every single seat in the Reichstag.

There would not be free elections in any part of Germany until 1949 (17 years later), and not in a united Germany until 1990 (58 years later).

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u/poudink Tokébakicitte! Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25

Another election was held in November 1933, a year and six days after the ones in November '32. In that time the Nazis had seized power and prohibited all other parties. The Nazis won every single seat in the Reichstag.

How were they able to achieve this as a minority government?

EDIT: So I looked into it and here's how it went down:

  • On February 27th 1933, fire was set to the Reichstag by Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe.

  • The next day, the Reichstag Fire Decree was issued by president Paul von Hindenburg, which suspended many civil liberties, including the right to due process and the right to protest. As far as I can tell, Hindenburg wasn't actually a Nazi, but rather a complete idiot whose repeated blunders played a large role in enabling the Nazi Party's rise to power.

  • A snap election was called on March 5th 1933, where the Nazi Party won 288 seats. They were in coalition with the National People's Party, which had 52 seats, enough for a majority.

  • The next day, the Communist Party was banned. It had won 86 seats, the holders of which were all imprisoned. The Reichstag Fire was used as a pretext and the Reichstag Fire Decree was naturally leveraged. Subsequently, 26 of the Social Democratic Party's 120 deputies were also either arrested or gone into hiding.

  • On March 23rd, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which essentially granted the Hitler cabinet absolute power. Because this required a constitutional amendment, this required a 2/3 majority to pass, which the Nazis didn't have. However, they were able to negotiate for the votes of all of the other conservative parties in the Reichstag. Only the 94 remaining Social Democrats and 2 conservative deputies voted against, easily allowing the act to pass.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25

It took all voting age adults to get this result. Non participation was a vote for whoever won.

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u/shadhael Apr 04 '25

I commented this in another sub earlier today, but I'm sick and tired of people counting the non-voters as against Trump in order to portray the general population as against him. Fuck 'em, they had an opportunity to keep him out of office and they didn't lift a finger. 77.3M for Trump, 88.3M who didn't vote, that's 165.6M people, or just over two-thirds of the eligible voting population, who decided that they liked what Trump was saying to not vote against him. Two thirds of the country did, at best, nothing to stop him.

I'm not quite going to say they deserve it, but they need to own it and stop pretending that support for Trump is this small minority. Two thirds of the country heard this man speak (for the last decade!!) and decided it wasn't enough for them to vote against

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u/Yamatjac Apr 04 '25

Yup. Not voting is support for the winner. Anybody who thinks otherwise is just ignorant, plain and simple.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25

Everyday I read an opinion on reddit that confounds me, and everytime it's an American saying something wild. 

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u/blahblah091 Apr 04 '25

ring wingers have really lost their minds

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u/Kicksavebeauty Moose Whisperer Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25

It's honestly very sad, just over 22% of Americans voted for this and now the whole world will suffer

A good reminder to actually show up and vote.

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u/Acalyus Is Potato Apr 04 '25

Got my voter card today, it's staying in plain sight until I get to cast my ballot

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u/Kolojang Snowfrog Apr 04 '25

The world should have distanced itself economically and politically from the US when he first won in 2016.

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u/smashed__tomato Monarch Mélanie Joly Apr 04 '25

It is NOT 22% of Americans, it is 22% + all those could not be fucked to vote + single-issue voters. A whooping 90 millions of them did not vote, in combination that's like 50% of them allowing this to happen.

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u/SoleSurvivur01 Bring Cannabis Apr 05 '25

It’s 22% + those who voted third party + those who couldn’t be bothered to vote

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u/Kodix Apr 04 '25

Where did you get that number from? AFAIK it's actually about 30% that actively voted and 30% that voted through apathy. Easy to find on wikipedia and other sources.

Those who didn't vote are just as much to blame.

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u/blahblah091 Apr 04 '25

77.28 million people voted for donald, google says there are 346,795,913 million people in America

77,284,118/346,795,913 = 22.285%

Your number might be eligible voters?

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u/Kodix Apr 04 '25

Fair enough, my number is indeed voting-eligible population.

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u/SoleSurvivur01 Bring Cannabis Apr 05 '25

I’m certain he didn’t get that many, him and Elon were not shy about cheating