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Democracy is a religion that glorifies the lesser of two evils.

John Stewart for POTUS.

I don’t care if he doesn’t want it; that just makes him more suitable.

Ever see a story in the sidebar, and know before clicking on it who posted it?

Sure I’d rather vote for someone with Bernie’s politics but that’s not on the table right now. I’ll happily vote for Biden over literal christo-fascism and the destruction of our democracy any fucking time.

Probably ninety percent of those would want to replace any relevant Democrat that made it on the ballet. Big deal. What a useless story.

Geez, i expected more fighting in the comments, but everyone here’s just dunking on op and calling them a “bad actor” so I’ll start one.

Is there even a single comment about the content of the article? Some of y’all commenting on FUD and OPs contributions should take a hard look at their contribution to both this comment chain, and Lemmy in general. I hope it looks better than what i see.

Anyway, enough of how disappointed i am with you, all of you, and on to the article.

Most of the article is just polling opinions, so not a lot to see, but i thought this part was interesting:

Fewer voters also say “it really matters who wins” the 2024 presidential race compared to those that said the same at this point in the 2020 cycle. Back then, 80 percent of Trump supporters and 77 percent of Biden supporters said the race really matters — but those figures have now dropped to 70 percent each.

This is surprising. I thought most people considered this election even more important than the last!

Is there a record somewhere of “election importance”? How far back does it go? Is this 7-10% drop normal?

By the way OP. As someone often critical of Biden i too get called a russian or chinese tank sometimes, so i feel close to ya. Thanks for contentin’ and shit. here’s an upvote from me <3

So there was just a burst of 11 upvotes for this story in 10 minutes, while during the same time period there were 3 downvotes.

I wonder if the same ratio will continue during the next 10-minute window or going forward; my bet is that the ratio will more or less reverse (or more), with downvotes dominating over time. What would cause an unusual number of people to all upvote this story all at once, right after it was posted?

Maybe I am wrong. Let’s see.

Edit: I am wrong, I think. Beyond that fact that this post obviously isn’t being downvoted heavily now that it’s established, I spent a while looking at this question, and I found some things that maybe looked hinky, but nothing outwardly and obviously suspicious. And you can’t really tell anything from the behavior right after a post – it’s all noise. After about 30-60 minutes, enough votes have been accumulated that you can say something about it, but before then, all bets are off.

The Hill. lol

I vote Republican (apparently I’m the only one on Lemmy) and I’m part of this percentage. I don’t care for either candidate, but both sides are going to vote for their candidate, because both sides have the “anyone but him” mentality.