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.... no they were not elected because of votes. I'm sure that the media made a big deal about the votes. It doesn't actually matter, they could have just picked someone else. Democrats are the same as Republicans in terms of impact on real people. The only difference is the PR. Obama did the whole prison camp for immigrants thing too.

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I didn't say we can't do anything.

Trump won because the Electoral College thought a "strong Republican President" was "what the country needed." There is absolutely nothing I or anyone in my social class could have done to influence this decision.

The difference between the Third Reich and America is that Germans had some small influence over who they elected in the form of votes that were actually counted.

No, Americans in general cannot decide who the president is. Our presidential elections are theater and have been since slavery was abolished.

Do you genuinely believe "get out and vote" is a viable solution in the US, or is this ragebait?

Again, this is really really for real fascism, not like the kind on TV or in fiction. This is real life.

Do you know what the Electoral College is and why it exists?

Well, no, actually, we probably can't. Hitler fell because of the Allied Forces, not because Jews and Poles banded together to beat him up.

...what?

You're a total moron and there is no point explaining anything to you or arguing with you, but I'm confident that you'd tell victims of the Holocaust that they deserved it, because that's pretty much what you're doing now. Except unlike in Germany, the majority of the country's population is on the list to die, rather than a relatively small group of people. The majority of Americans share characteristics that the regime wants to eliminate, and the number of hated traits are numerous, not tied only to race or religion.

When stuff like this happens, which it occasionally does, you're not going to know about it, because you do not live here. Our press is not going to report it, because we live under real fascism, not pretend fascism from TV.

I didn't tell you to do anything. I don't know you.

But yeah you shouldn't be cowtowing to a dictator and then blaming his victims. You are not going to experience ICE raids.

I am telling you now, for the first time, because this is the first time we've ever spoken, to stop blaming the victims of fascism for their own oppression. He's a dictator. It doesn't matter how hard we vote.

The thing that has been most shocking to me about this entire thing is how much foreigners have sided with Trump over the American people. Blaming Americans for Trump completely, even while knowing he is a dictator who ignores the wishes of his own people, and then inviting Trump to their countries to shake hands and make deals. Unbelievable.

I've seen foreign nationals say that we "deserve" to be raided by ICE for "voting for" Trump... the dictator who ignores the popular vote. They're on Trump's side, they want the same things he wants, they just want to feel morally superior.

You're gonna keep inviting Trump into your country, he's gonna keep shaking hands with your leaders, and even if he kills all of us American citizens all at once in a state-sponsored massacre and you hear about it on the news, your country will not impose sanctions, and you'll see your leader shaking hands with him on television the following month.

Thank you for helping me form an opinion about Canonical.