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Former Trump administration official and wife of top Trump aide Stephen Miller, Katie Miller, posted Saturday on X (formerly Twitter) an image of Greenland covered in the U.S. flag with the text “SOON”.

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's 1 day every 4 years (2 including midterms). Even if the nearest polling place is 1 hour drive away. Even if your vote won't be the deciding vote. In my country it takes less than 10 minutes to vote, but lets say it is 2 hours in the USA. That is a total of 4 hours.

If 1/3 of US-Americans are not willing to "lose" 4 hours every 4 years. And 1/3 of USAmericans directly vote for fascism. Then a majority of USAmericans are ok with fascism.

[–] original_charles@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Every election is held on a Tuesday. Most of those people cannot afford to take a day off of work because capitalism has fucked them over so badly.

Republicans have also stymied any attempts to turn election day into a national holiday specifically for this reason.

You literally don’t understand voting in America.