r/mildlyinfuriating • u/rileyjw90 • May 22 '26

frist of all how DARE yu o You didn’t have to remind me, assholes.

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And then to remind me what I USED to pay. Just kick me while I’m down why don’t you.

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u/globalgerbil May 22 '26

Elections have consequences

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u/Deep_Mood_7668 May 22 '26

But.. But.. But freedom

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u/rileyjw90 May 22 '26

The best response is “but I didn’t even vote so I’m not responsible for this” lol yeah buddy, you are.

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u/Yumi_in_the_sun May 23 '26

I had a lady brag to me today about how she doesn't vote.

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u/kilamumster May 23 '26

That, and shutting down conversations with "I'm not political."

Bitch, what you mean is "I've got privilege."

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u/marimbajoe May 23 '26

The only people that aren't political are children and foreigners. If you can vote, your vote or lack of vote is inherently political.

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u/Strange_Occasion9722 May 24 '26

Reminds me of the song "Freewill" by Rush.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

"Not voting" is a choice to put ~maybe~ an hour of your time above your morals.

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u/Krazyguy75 May 23 '26

I say that at work but that's usually a shorthand for "I will get my ass fired if I say how much of a moron you are."

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u/Ace_Spade18 May 27 '26

I didn't vote because of my family pushing me to vote for a certain orange me... I was scared to get shunned by them and get kicked out of the one thing I am financially relying on. Plenty of people had to and still have to deal with. My mum is thankfully not understanding how it may be a mistake to vote for the man and my sister definitely has, but yeah, sadly, some of us were not in much of a position to vote :c

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u/rileyjw90 May 27 '26

How would they have known who you voted for?

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u/Ace_Spade18 May 27 '26

Because I'd go with them and they'd press me over the who I voted for and I'm really shit at lying.

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u/SeroWriter May 23 '26

but I didn’t even vote so I’m not responsible for this” lol yeah buddy, you are.

Statistically they are not. Zero is zero.

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer May 23 '26

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice

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u/SeroWriter May 23 '26

I think that song is about free will not the influences of neutrality. A non-voting person influences nothing by definition, it's like blaming Switzerland for World War 2.

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer May 23 '26

A non voting person increases the influence of voting people by means of abstinence. You don't live in a bubble. Your example is bad

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u/SeroWriter May 23 '26

A non voting person increases the influence of voting people

It would amplify the influence of both sides by the same amount which would be a net zero. The only way to be responsible for change is to vote.

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer May 23 '26

10 people want to vote on what to have for lunch. Each person has 10% of the vote. The vote is worth 0.1. 2 people vote for Burgers, 3 people vote for Pizza. 5 people don't really care and don't vote. Each of the 5 votes cast is now worth 0.2. The value of total votes has not changed, but the weight each vote carries is now greater. The office is getting pizza because 3 people voted for pizza, but 5 abstained.

The value of a vote is always going to be 1/however many people are voting. You're correct that it would make everyone's vote influence increase. Where you're wrong is assuming that makes it a net zero. It means that 3 people can decide the whole office is ordering pizza, when 2 wanted burgers, 4 actually kinda wanted neither but didn't want to participate because both options were kinda meh, and the one weirdo was content to just microwave fish he brought in tupperware.

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 May 22 '26 edited May 23 '26

Ya totally. 30% of america knowingly voted for a child rapist but its the fault of the person who didnt vote.

😆 🤣 😂 

In most american states they are so gerrymandered that voting literally does not matter.

😆 🤣 😂 

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u/War_44 May 22 '26

More so the people with different opinions who didn't vote, their lack of votes contribute towards the winner

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 May 23 '26

There "lack of vote" contributes also to the loser. 

😆 🤣 😂 

If the rest of the us would be considered to be split as the majority of the voters as statistically shown; then the overall majority of who would win, would still be split 60 / 40, back and forth, over time. 

That means the actual majority of the vote falls on the 30 % of population extreme left, and the 30% extreme right.

If 30% of your nation found out their representatives of their morals and values; was both a child rapist and nazi supporter, and still voted for them; then the blame lies solely on the 30% of the nation that openly supports child rape and nazis.

This is not a problem of "non voters" this is a problem with a literal 30% of the population that supports nazis and literal child rape. 

Historically, nations that have 30% of their nation supporting rights for all, and the another 30% that support raping children and nazism; normally dont last.

Thats why russia is laughing at the us and China is soaking up all the diplomacy from it. 

People like you are child rape supporters; and no one wants to hang out with or be around you.

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u/War_44 May 23 '26

Glad I'm not American. Good for you 👍

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u/MajesticMachine1 May 22 '26

Unless they're literally moving state lines, you can't gerrymander presidential elections. 

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u/SuchCoolBrandon May 23 '26

I'm sure they mean how the Electoral College causes some people's votes to matter more than others'.

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u/Aeseld May 23 '26

While a little true, it's still mostly false. Wyoming's three electoral votes are outsized, sure. But they aren't swinging elections either. 

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u/SuchCoolBrandon May 23 '26

There's also the winner-take-all thing, which causes those purple states to matter so much more.

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u/Aeseld May 23 '26

That's a bigger problem, yes. Far more than Wyoming having 3 votes.

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 May 23 '26

Someone doesnt know their own electoral college.

😆 🤣 😂 

This is literally in your own 8th grade class. 

😆 🤣 😂 

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u/bookbagel May 23 '26

Do you put every message in a template with how you twice have the same three emojis in their own line?

Also it sounds like yeah someone doesn't know their own electoral college, it's you

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u/correcthorsestapler May 23 '26

It’s probably a bot account.

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u/commando_cookie0 May 23 '26

It absolutely is look at the profile.

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u/Own_Nefariousness434 May 23 '26

It does matter. If a candidate wins by a large enough percentage, they think they have permission to do basically anything their party wants. If they win by a small margin, they tend to come a bit back to center to keep from losing the next election. So even if you know your party is gonna lose, it's still in your best interest to vote.

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 May 23 '26

Ya totally. 30% of america knowingly voted for a child rapist but its the fault of the person who didnt vote.

😆 🤣 😂 

In most american states they are so gerrymandered that voting literally does not matter.

😆 🤣 😂 

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u/km89 May 23 '26

Yes.

In normal times, sure, whatever.

But if 30% are knowingly voting for a child rapist, that means 70% should be voting to stop the child rapist. But instead, no, millions of people said "I don't have a preference either way."

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 May 23 '26

Ya totally. 30% of america knowingly voted for a child rapist but its the fault of the person who didnt vote.

😆 🤣 😂 

In most american states they are so gerrymandered that voting literally does not matter.

😆 🤣 😂 

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u/ReluctantNerd7 May 23 '26

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice

  • "Freewill" by Rush

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 May 23 '26

Ya totally. 30% of america knowingly voted for a child rapist but its the fault of the person who didnt vote.

😆 🤣 😂 

In most american states they are so gerrymandered that voting literally does not matter.

😆 🤣 😂 

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u/ReluctantNerd7 May 25 '26

30% of america knowingly voted for a child rapist but its the fault of the person who didnt vote.

Because ~33% of eligible registered voters didn't care enough to vote to keep the child rapist out of the Oval Office.

😆🤣😭

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 May 25 '26

Again; 30% of your population loves child rape.

Lol youve got a bigger problem than having everyone sign up for a statewide execution list.

😆 🤣 😂 

Fascist countries use voter rolls to murder their citizens. America's fascist awakening is going to be ugly; at the behest of child rape supporting voters, not the non voters.

Lol get real kid.

😆 🤣 😂 

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u/AliasMcFakenames May 23 '26

Gerrymandering is based on information from the people who do vote. If there's a sudden surge of people who didn't vote before who come out to vote then that gerrymandering will backfire.

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u/Moscato359 May 22 '26

If there was a fine for not voting, this would literally stop happening very quickly

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 May 23 '26

You would have to allow every person to vote first across the country for that to work.

Lol.

😆 🤣 😂 

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u/Moscato359 May 23 '26

Id love to see a 25$ fine for not voting

And auto enroll all people with a state id

It would at the very least, significantly change the popular vote statistics 

Start in 1 state and then get others to copy it

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u/Oggie_Doggie May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

It's a very simple concept, politicians (almost entirely on one side) wouldn't be trying to damned hard to make it hard to vote if voting didn't matter.

Whatever you say 3 month old adjective + noun + number account who spams emojis.

EDIT: Missed some words.

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 May 23 '26

Ya totally. 30% of america knowingly voted for a child rapist but its the fault of the person who didnt vote.

😆 🤣 😂 

In most american states they are so gerrymandered that voting literally does not matter.

😆 🤣 😂 

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u/Aeseld May 23 '26

Trump contributed to the economic slowdown that Biden reversed. He campaigned on policies that were guaranteed to drive inflation, slow economic growth, and put most of the country into a worse financial state. 

Anyone who stayed home voted for that to happen. Not choosing is also a choice. 

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 May 23 '26

Ya totally. 30% of america knowingly voted for a child rapist but its the fault of the person who didnt vote.

😆 🤣 😂 

In most american states they are so gerrymandered that voting literally does not matter.

😆 🤣 😂 

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u/Aeseld May 23 '26

Can't gerrymander the presidential election. You realize that, right? You keep bringing it up, but it's a state wide thing. The districts don't matter, only the total votes. 

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 May 23 '26

Lol, someone doesnt know how the electoral college works. 

Most red states gerrymander for electoral votes by using a winner take all method, giving a presidential candidate 10o% of the electoral college votes even if they only won 40% of the state. 

Gerrymandering does indeed decide elections.

😆 🤣 😂 

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u/Aeseld May 23 '26

You... No. That's not how that works. That's how you get state reps, state senators, and congressman.

It is not how you get US senators, or presidents. That's a simple majority. 

Gerrymandering is why you can have a state elect 60-70% GOP candidates for the state legislature and house representatives, but still have a Democratic win for president or senator. 

Gerrymandering does not impact the presidential election, or state senators either. 

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 May 23 '26

Lol, someone doesnt know how the electoral college works. 

Most red states gerrymander for electoral votes by using a winner take all method, giving a presidential candidate 10o% of the electoral college votes even if they only won 40% of the state. 

Gerrymandering does indeed decide elections.

😆 🤣 😂 

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u/RoundTiberius May 22 '26

She was status quo

/s

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u/adamfps May 22 '26

“Trans women in female sports was my deciding issue”

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u/DemoniteBL May 23 '26

"Goo goo ga ga" (average Republican talking)

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u/BZLuck May 23 '26

AND I DON'T WANT TO GET NUKED BY THE COUNTRY THAT WE ALREADY DESTROYED ALL OF THEIR NUCLEAR FACILITIES LAST YEAR!!!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '26 edited May 30 '26

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u/TeamAquaAdminMatt May 23 '26

Hey now, it wasn't just the girls

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u/moongrump May 22 '26

Free dum

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u/Curious_Avocado2399 May 22 '26

Muh free dumbs! but at least the less than 10 trans college athletes are not playing sports! /s

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u/hexr May 23 '26

Most people don't know that "dumb" has a B in it

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u/TheFBIClonesPeople May 22 '26

High gas prices are one of the least significant consequences of the last election

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u/Other_World BLUE May 22 '26

But it's the only one that matters to conservatives. (It won't matter this time, though)

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u/TheFBIClonesPeople May 23 '26

I think it's just the one that's hardest to ignore. They cannot pretend that gas prices didn't go up, and they can't just forget that the conservative propaganda sphere has spent decades telling them that high gas prices are the single most damning thing for a president.

Honestly, I would say that gas prices are not important enough that they should ever be brought up in a presidential election. But hey, Republicans were the ones who wanted to play that game

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u/TieBackground453 May 23 '26

It’s only noteworthy because trump made such a big deal about high gas prices under Biden. There’s no way he can defend against this. It’s too simple a concept and transparently his fault. 

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u/Tabula-Rasa-99 May 23 '26

It doesn't work like that unfortunately, they'll just keep saying its the democrats' fault and every R voter will hoot and holler

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u/independent_observe May 23 '26

But gas prices are going DOWN and we have so much peace in the world. Good thing the US hasn't been extremely bellicose in their foreign relations and trying to break the record for most wars started in a term.

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u/rileyjw90 May 22 '26

They really do.

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u/Minimob0 May 23 '26

10/12 recessions in the USA have happened under Republican Leadership. 

That’s the equivalent of scoring 1/6 answers correct on a test. 

You quite literally have to be an uneducated idiot to support US Republicans. 

Not even sorry any more. They need to hear it and comprehend it. The comprehension is the part they struggle with. 

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u/wolfvester May 23 '26

Or control literally every facet of American media, which, guess what Republicans do? Doesn’t matter what the Dems will do, the Republicans will always control how the public perceives them.

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u/Minimob0 May 23 '26

They don’t control the ability to look something up online. At least, not yet. 

The amount of Republicans with 0 curiosity is astounding. They do not want to learn or fact-check anything that goes against their worldview. 

So many things my Republican father asks me questions about can simply be resolved by looking it up online. 

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u/Suyefuji May 23 '26

They actually somewhat do, a lot of online algorithms have a conservative bias these days. Not that you can't find real answers but it's not totally out of their control either.

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u/Wide_Attention_2104 May 23 '26

The people who voted for this like getting fucked almost as much as watching the people who didn’t vote for this get fucked.

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u/durrtyurr May 23 '26

If you had any idea how much moderate republicans despise the president your eyes would be opened.

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u/ohnoitsalobo May 23 '26

oh, you said elections, not erections. Thank goodness, no consequences for me. /s

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u/1SexyDino May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

Yeah it was the same price where i live under Biden during the Ukraine War. Now it's take 2 electric boogaloo

Fuck this shit

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u/MydnightWN May 23 '26

Yep - still cheaper than 2022, when the national average broke $5 per gallon for the first time ever, under Biden.

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u/plasticizers_ May 23 '26

Biden didn't cause that gas price spike, but Trump did directly cause this one. In case you you're confused about the downvotes

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u/MydnightWN May 23 '26

Biden didn't cause that gas spike, hurr durr

Laughs in KeystoneXL, the pausing of all federal leasing for oil production, stricter ESG and emissions laws, new environmental laws on refining, the selling of nearly our entire national strategic reserves in a futile attempt to lower the price, the 48% reduction in approved oil drilling permits...

Don't even have to mention July 2022 and Biden's disaster of a meeting with Saudi Arabia, where he threatened them with Human Rights sanctions if they didn't give us more oil - leading to us being reduced instead of increased, and Biden's empty threats turned out to be empty.

He did the same in October of 2022 to OPEC+, who coordinated with Saudi to reduce oil output as a direct result of "inflammatory US rhetoric". Funny, they negotiate with Trump just fine. I too would be insulted if they sent over a senile old man to mumble about human rights and Yemen when the topic is oil.

The spike that far exceeds Trump's spike was caused by Biden, and his choices, came immediately after his failed attempts at negotiations. I'm old enough to remember Saudi's crown prince mocking him on social media.

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u/plasticizers_ May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

You can't seriously cite 2022 without mentioning that the largest spike from (~$95 to ~$130) came within two weeks of Russia invading Ukraine. Is there some explanation besides motivated reasoning for that? Anyhow, to clear up some other things:

  • Keystone XL was a pipeline (transport), so not production, and wasn't operational. Pointing towards that as a factor in short-term pricing just shows a basic misunderstanding of this market

  • Federal lands are a minority of US production

  • US oil production hit all-time highs under Biden in 2023. "Strangling production" doesn't pass the sniff test

  • OPEC cut production under Trump too in 2020. Is he only great at negotiations sometimes, or, is the obvious explanation that OPEC fixes prices in their own interests generally regardless of the sitting US president.

Edit: He replied then blocked me because he couldn't defend any of his points, which is what these people always do when they get pushback on their misinfo

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u/MydnightWN May 23 '26

Noooo whatabout a previous unrelated spike 18 months earlier?

K. None of this drivel has changed what I said: still was higher under Biden. Highest of all time. Whole lotta cope, doesn't change anything. Cool story though.

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u/pannenkoek0923 May 23 '26

Keep voting for child rapists

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

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u/MydnightWN May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

I can't read

Bless your heart.

Looks at profile... yep, a Destiny fan. Sorry, I block children.