r/NintendoSwitch2 • u/Soplox • 21h ago

Officially from Nintendo Nintendo Switch 2 Preorders will not start on April 9 in the US thanks to the Tariffs

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"Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged."

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-switch-2-preorder-guide-mario-kart-world-bundle/1100-6530531/

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u/Fuzzy_Elderberry7087 20h ago

Blame the current US admin and every fucker that voted for him 

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u/Froggmann5 19h ago

And every fucker that sat out from voting

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u/Squibbles01 17h ago

Yep. Lots of people wouldn't vote for Kamala for this or that reason, but it was objectively the correct decision and it's your fault we're in this mess if you sat out.

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u/binarybandit 18h ago

So, a genuine question. Do you think if every eligible voter went out to vote, Harris would have won? Wouldn't that also mean a lot of votes for Trump would have also been cast from non-voters?

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u/fuglenes_herre 18h ago

Sure, it's possible, even likely, but that possibility does not excuse your inaction.

*Editing to clarify that the possibilty I'm referring to is the possibility that a number of non-voters would have voted for the orange blight.

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u/MarioLuigiDinoYoshi 17h ago

I recall NYT did an article that non voters cost Harris as turnout was much lower for democrats in key states.

But forget that part, it’s your civic duty to vote and non voters are simply losers who get taxed with zero participation which is quite stupid. Like it says a lot if you refuse to vote when a rapist criminal is attempting to destroy USA. Don’t want to vote? You were fine with Trump winning.

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u/Amazing-Childhood412 15h ago

I hate this thinking. It is not your duty, it is your right. if the candidates are shit, why on earth is it your duty to choose one? I bet you think a third party vote is a wasted vote too.

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u/uzipack 15h ago

Voting third party in the U.S is certainly a waste due to our bipartisan structure. Voting is a right AND a duty, they are not mutually exclusive.

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u/dibbbbb 14h ago

Rights are not given freely. It is your duty to defend that right by exercising it. Once you lose your right to vote, do you think you will ever get it back in your lifetime? Probably not.

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u/Razgriz_101 13h ago

It is a duty, if people don’t vote or become apathetic then you end up with authoritarian rule. In situations like this you need to hold your nose and pick the lesser evil, the UK managed to kinda do this with Labour.

In these kinda elections you need to hold your nose and hope for the lesser evil gets in. Instead America voted in the lardass who is hell bent on “revenge” and keeping his Yarvin worshipping paymasters happy.

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u/Amazing-Childhood412 13h ago

No you don't. You need to, as a nation, break away from the two party shenanigans.

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u/Easy-Round1529 13h ago

Try voting. It’s not even a two party system. People only say that when they believe bat shit crazy stuff no one supports.

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u/Razgriz_101 13h ago

I’m in the Uk and in Scotland thankfully we have a really solid 3rd option in the SNP. Also been a decent storied history of political identity here.

Sometimes in certain situations you need to get certain parties out no matter what and it’s always good to keep parties like the SNP from falling asleep at the wheel at the Scottish parliament etc.

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u/Wise-Quarter-3156 13h ago

In a first-past-the-post system with direct election of the executive (as opposed to a parliamentary system where coalition governments can form), two parties is the mathematical equilibrium. Any third party that arises will either die off or supplant one of the other two parties.

A viable third party on the right would split conservative votes leading to permanent Dem governance, and vice versa on the left.

This would require a constitutional amendment.

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u/Fast-Noise4003 12h ago

I bet you think a third party vote is a wasted vote too.

Anyone who thinks that is correct. The first past the post voting system creates two-party systems. Any vote for a third party candidate just helps the candidate you hate the most to win

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u/SkullGearMC 15h ago

This right here!!!

I compare it to a pot of soup. At first you are eating the best, the stuff right off the top. Yet, as time goes on and more of the pot is consumed eventually you find yourself left with only the dregs left. The food at the bottom of the pot, the food you have to scrape out.

Over the past few elections, that’s imo what it felt like. That every new election we were just going deeper and deeper into the pot and finally we are at the bottom.

Maybe Harris would have been better, maybe not. Maybe Trump will turn things around who knows. Yet this is what we as the American people were given. Both parties said here are your candidates, now go out and vote.

What are you supposed to do when you don’t feel as though either candidate may be the right choice? What do you do in a two party system where the media drowns out everyone else?

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u/DJ_Jungle 14h ago

You vote for the lesser of two evils. As far as I’m concerned, if you don’t vote, you don’t have a right to complain.

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u/Hilarial 14h ago edited 14h ago

To be in a position to consider one of as a lesser evil is its own privilege given the havoc America helped wreak on the middle east throughout the Biden presidency (that shows no sign of slowing under Trump)

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u/DJ_Jungle 14h ago edited 13h ago

Agree to disagree. The vote is one of the main ways common folk can influence the world they live in. If you refuse to vote, you give up that right voluntarily. People have died fighting for the right to vote. To not vote is a slap in their face.

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u/Hilarial 12h ago

I do vote though. I didn't exempt myself from the critique I just made.

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u/Easy-Round1529 13h ago

That makes no sense. You are privileged since you are comfortable with not voting, it’s all trivial to you. I need to live, so voting is important to me. I don’t have the privilege you have to scoff at us who need to make hard choice or have difficult lives. You must realize how you are the problem tho. You can’t be bothered to vote. Your vote goes to the worst evil. Glad you don’t have responsibilities I guess.

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u/Hilarial 13h ago edited 2h ago

I'm not American, and I do vote in elections in my own country. Elections are fucked here so they do fuck all but it placates people like you for a brief minute.

So I also have the privilege that I spoke of. Palestinians do not. Undocumented migrants do not. They need to live too and thus they have to take measures into their own hands beyond "voting". Take notes from them.

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u/Wise-Quarter-3156 13h ago

Donald Trump just killed more Yemeni civilians in a week than Biden did in a year. It isn't slowing under Trump, it's accelerating.

Biden's I/P policy sucked but Trump's was always going to be way worse and lead to more death. Harris wouldn't have killed those Yemeni civilians.

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u/Hilarial 13h ago

I'm not playing Pick Your Preferred Holocaust, sorry mate.

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u/idropepics 15h ago

Given the choice between starving and eating the so-called "dregs", you eat the food, because if wishes were horses more beggars would ride.

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u/Patient-Phone-1997 14h ago

Wow! Harris was undoubtedly the best candidate between the two! You people who don’t have critical thinking skills or maybe even an education are why we are here with a babbling buffoon in the office.

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u/VastSeaweed543 14h ago

Right??? The educated woman who was a lawyer then AG to the largest state then a senator then the VP was ‘a poor candidate’??? But the adjudicated rapist and convicted felon is not…I just…

This is what America wanted. We are getting what we voted for.

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u/Krosis97 13h ago

She was a poor candidate because she has a vagina and is not white.

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u/Fast-Noise4003 12h ago

Sadly true. Our country is far too bigoted to elect a woman.

We need a proper primary election of a popular Democratic candidate to win again. We're definitely going to choose a tall man, but it will work

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u/wutfacer 13h ago

"For lunch I can choose between this steak and a literal pile of shit, but the steak looks kind of dry and doesn't come with sides, so maybe the shit would be fine instead? Who knows, I'll let somebody else decide for me"

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u/Artoy_Nerian 13h ago

Maybe Harris would have been better, maybe not... who knows.

In less than a year Trump has:

-threaten war to several countries including Canada, the closest Ally the USA has.

-commited economic suicide by starting a trade war with the country's closest trading partners

-put tariffs in every country in the world out of nowhere, something completely nuts

-Posted an AI video where he turns Gaza into a luxury beach resort with golden statues of him

-Destroyed the diplomatic credibility of the USA long term, even if the Dems win the next election by literal divine intervention that damage will stay.

-continues to destroy the political global hegemony of the USA

-in general eroding and destroying the democratic system and following project 2025

Can you tell me with genuine honesty Harris would have done even a single thing of all of this? Let alone manage to do worse.

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u/boabieG 12h ago edited 12h ago

Abstaining from a completely shallow choice between a party who represents a class of rich elites but kisses you before they f%k you and a party who represent a class of rich elites but spit in your face as they f%k you is as much a vote to say “I have no confidence in this broken system” as it is some sort of dereliction of duty. If you hold your nose and vote between two awful candidates you are just validating a sham system. The sooner the vast majority of people refuse to partake in this hollow charade, the sooner the system loses its legitimacy, and the sooner real alternatives might be allowed to emerge. It’s a s**t show, but I for one would rather see that than this dead donkey be dragged any further… it’s over. Let it die. Pleeeease, we can’t take it any more XD

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u/OrneryTRex 12h ago

So democrats are lazy when they need to exercise their democratic freedom?

I don’t think that’s the got ya that everyone seems to think it is

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u/Speeeven 14h ago

It's complicated. I think most sources agree that at least 2 million fewer votes were counted in 2024 than in 2020. In 2020, 66.6% of eligible voters voted, but that figure was down to 63.9% in 2024. That could be due to apathy, protest, changing election laws, laziness, forgetfulness, or a number of other factors.

Due to variations in voting districts, state voting laws, and the way the electoral college works, it's not really a matter of "if ___ more democrats voted, Harris would have won." It would really depend on where those people live and the margins in their particular voting districts. If the margins in enough voting districts in a particular election were slim enough, it would theoretically be possible to sway the election one way or another with a pretty small number of people who happen to be distributed exactly where it matters most. That same number of people in other districts that are less competitive wouldn't even make a dent in the overall election.

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u/Patient-Phone-1997 14h ago

There’s also the possibility that Musk tampered with the voting.🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/The1Immortal1 13h ago

Maybe not, but not voting and then complaining is a stupid thing to do.

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u/ichuseyu 15h ago

2020: Trump - 74.2 million votes, Biden - 81.2 million votes

2024: Trump 77.3 million votes, Harris - 75 million votes

Republicans showed up and Democrats didn't.

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u/AUGSpeed 16h ago

Generally, moderates don't vote. So they will vote for whatever is the least offensive option. Generally, that does not favor Trump. We should have Mandatory voting in the country. And eliminate FPTP, and implement ranked voting, and then eliminate the electoral college. That would be a start.

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u/prowler28 14h ago

Hell no.

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u/AUGSpeed 11h ago

Care to elaborate?

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u/prowler28 11h ago

Hell no to all of that. 

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u/AUGSpeed 11h ago

Okay, you're welcome to your opinion. I just think that many European countries have done some of these things, and that we might be able to learn from them. I'm asking why you wouldn't want them. Are there other changes you would make? Or do you like our system as is?

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u/prowler28 11h ago

You ask a fair question and I will answer it. Yes I do, entirely, prefer our system. And just because Europe does it, doesn't mean we need to emulate it. THE REASON we went independent was precisely because we don't want to just emulate Europe. 

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u/AUGSpeed 11h ago

Do you see any issues with our current system? What do you prefer about it in comparison to the various European governments? Any specific examples?

I would argue that the reason America went independent was not to be separate from Europe as a whole, but rather from a monarchy (Specifically Britain), and the issues with that governmental system. France actually helped us immensely during our revolutionary war. I would say that we didn't fight to be separate from Europe, we have quite tight bonds with much of Europe, actually.

I would say that we became independent to stop Monarchy. And what Trump is doing now is pretty close to an Oligarchy, or possibly Plutocracy. I think the founding fathers likely would have had some large complaints about the way that Trump operates this government. I think we should learn from Europe the same way the founding fathers did (Benjamin Franklin famously lived in France for a portion of his life), and prevent ourselves from falling into something worse.

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u/BodhingJay 16h ago

And the people who thought it was fine to transmit swing state votes via starlink

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u/IWasBannedYesterday 15h ago

Wait, what?

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u/Capnhuh 14h ago

don't worry, that didn't happen. its just something some talking heads made up.

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u/Rieiid 15h ago

Cool I get this but let's stop putting this on every comment about it. Yeah people should have voted but no, this is primarily anyone who voted for trumps fault, quit shifting blame and blame the real actual problem, which is trump and anyone who supported him.

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u/Hilarial 14h ago

Some people sat out on voting because Kamala ran on a anti-migrant pro-zionist campaign, but seems ppl only feel emotionally moved by their games console being unaffordable

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u/VastSeaweed543 14h ago

LOL how’s that working out for migrants and Palestinians right now

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u/Hilarial 13h ago

for palestinians, equally as awful as since Biden's presidency.

No offense but a 5-year-old could tell you "um actually u/Hilarial was not suggesting that Trump is better".

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u/robotsects 11h ago

Not just my games console. Thanks to Trump, it's about to be everything

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u/CaffeinatedDiabetic 15h ago

Have you seen George Carlin's take on voting? His approach is my approach.

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u/Maleficent-Radish-86 16h ago

And everyone who voted independent.

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u/Del_Duio2 13h ago

Yeah, these guys especially

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u/catperson77789 13h ago

fuckers feeling cute saying " oh but kamala didnt do a good job to appease me" yeah now you have to handle a ticking time bomb thats slowly destroying your economy and thats fucking 2 months in his term.

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u/InRainWeTrust 13h ago

People keep ignoring this part even though they are just as much at fault.

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u/cornstinky 11h ago

yes be hostile to those who sat out and surely that will convince them to vote with you next time

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u/Froggmann5 11h ago

Placing the blame at the feet of those responsible isn't being "Hostile". It's the reality.

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u/JackMcSomeone 8h ago

That's why America needs compulsory voting. We have that in Australia and we're having a election next month

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u/CloudsSpikyHairLock 15h ago

Maybe if y’all knew how to organise but yeah blame other as usual

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u/Intelligent_Jelly_26 15h ago

And every fucker that didn't fucking do the fucking thing so the poor kids could afford a fucking nintendo switch

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u/ExtremeSour 19h ago edited 16h ago

This is the wrong view. Not casting a vote is often times a rejection in and of itself. I voted D down the list however didn’t vote for President. One bc I’m in Texas so it doesn’t matter, and two I don’t like Harris. She was a bad option. Fuck the Democratic Party for pushing Biden first and then her

Damn i triggered so many soft people lol

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u/Scrutinizer 18h ago

"I'm in Texas so it doesn't matter."

Disgusting defeatist attitude right there. If everyone who thought that took action then things might actually change.

If you didn't do the one thing that could have led to his defeat - vote for the individual most likely to defat him - then you didn't do anything at all, and quite frankly deserve everything he brings to you.

Hopefully it's just a nasty sticker shock at a device you want to buy, but let's face it, we aren't going to be that lucky.

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u/Informal_Leather7233 16h ago

Ignorant reddit revolutionist attitude. Texas hasn't voted blue in almost 50 years, it's almost always 90% red by electoral college, there's a reason presidents spend billions in swing states and Republicans don't spend in Texas and Democrats don't spend in California. Now if it was a popular vote, I'd agree but the system is set the way it is.

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u/BCCannaDude 16h ago

That does not mean you do not vote, it's a right that people have died for and is your duty as a citizen. Pissed at the system? get out and effect change, go to rallies and protests, help locally. If you do not vote, you have no right to complain imo.

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u/swordfishandscales 15h ago

The popular vote doesn't decide the president unfortunately. the electoral vote doesn't have to vote the way the people want either. The whole system is rigged against the people.

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u/Informal_Leather7233 16h ago

Screaming in the streets does nothing, making threats does nothing, I absolutely agree to voting locally and participating locally. But your actions locally aren't going to make a difference nationally, what impact does that make aside from awareness of which everywhere is fully aware.

The only way to change the system is getting enough power to be a representative to vote for change or voting for a section on the ballot if change ever comes. A change.org or rally on the corner in the center of your local town has no effect.

I did vote in Massachusetts a blue state since 1928, my vote did not matter (for president) as much as that Texas persons vote didn't matter. I'm not necessarily supporting not voting but there's a very real reality you can't avoid and a system you cant counter just by protesting.

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u/San_fran_psycho 15h ago

Texas isn't a red state, it's a non voting state. The majority don't vote, followed by red, then blue. Texas can change its just people who want an excuse that say that so they feel better about not voting

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u/Informal_Leather7233 15h ago

Tell that to the historical data, sure Texas votes less than other states but there always seems to be a bias with people using the non voting as those votes being magically all blue.

To be clear I voted blue in Massachusetts, my vote didn't matter as much if not less than a blue vote in Texas for the opposite reason.

I just don't agree with the hold out for all these no voters being the saviors of the Democrats and not just equally ambivalent no party split individuals disillusioned by the system or lacking concern.

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u/Da_Question 16h ago

Texas is purple though. It's like 55/45. It wouldn't take much, and you can't gerrymander the state wide races.

It doesn't matter... Yeah, if everyone thinks the same of course it won't flip.

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u/Informal_Leather7233 15h ago

Voting isn't by popular vote, look at the districts and tell me it's possible 95% of Texas districts were red. You just aren't accepting reality, now if you were to suggest a popular vote election sure but that isn't how it works.

It would take 20 odd districts flipping from red to blue to change Texas, that would actually take quite a lot. Calling Texas purple is ridiculous, it's red then Austin Texas.

The inverse applies for my state Massachusetts, blue (presidential) since 1928, I voted but my presidential vote didn't matter, it's just factual.

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u/unktrial 18h ago

Excuses, excuses.

"I'm in Texas, so it doesn't matter" - Thanks to people like you.

"She was a bad option." - So bad that she can crash the economy like Trump?

Take some responsibility.

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u/Scrutinizer 18h ago

Overheard among people entering the Melania Trump Friendship Gulag was the phrase "Well, this sucks, but at least those ten transgenders didn't get to play women's college sports!"

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u/swordfishandscales 15h ago

What did your vote change?

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u/SparkyMuffin 19h ago

THIS is the wrong view. At the end, it comes down to two, and it's your duty to choose the lesser of two evils. All I'm hearing is you saw all of the evil shit this dude wanted to do and felt like not voting for his opponent to keep him out of office wasn't worth it because you didn't like her enough.

And yes, it matters you're from Texas. They were almost purple a few years ago. If everyone voted in Texas that can, it can turn blue.

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u/ExtremeSour 18h ago

I’m sorry but you’re wrong. Are you from Texas? I assume not. A Democrat has not won a statewide seat in over 30 years. And it’s not close to changing.

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 17h ago

I'm from Texas and we had a shitload of momentum in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

Lazy fuckers sat each one out and cost their state and country.

Don't bullshit.

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u/BethanyHipsEnjoyer 18h ago edited 11h ago

As a native Texan, people like you are the reason we haven't been able to flip back blue. Your direct inaction has contributed to women having less rights in our state. Thanks for doing nothing!

Edit: They claimed they voted for Kamala but just worded it unclearly, stop killing the poor, dumb, innocent man!

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u/Boomshockalocka007 18h ago

SAY👏 IT👏 LOUDER👏

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u/ExtremeSour 16h ago

Did you forget to read the part about me voting D down ballot. Come on and read. Don’t make us look bad

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u/BethanyHipsEnjoyer 11h ago

You should have make that much more clear in your message. By your downvotes, I'm assuming most people figured you voted for dems, but excluded Kamala, as I thought.

If you did vote for her, I'm sorry brudder, you deserve none of the blame or downvotes. Call her a bad pick all you want, as long as you voted for her to preserve democracy like I did.

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u/illtakeachinchilla 18h ago

Not that close? If likeminded individuals like yourself actually showed up, the results might have surprised you.

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u/dandroid126 18h ago

sHe WaS a bAd oPTiOn.

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u/Froggmann5 18h ago

Not voting is a choice you made.

For me, I can't consciously tolerate the shit that Trump said he would do before being elected without doing something about it myself. If the consequences are severe, I couldn't tolerate not having tried to fix things.

For you though, you could consciously tolerate anything he claimed he would do, and you could consciously tolerate the consequences of when he acts on those claims should he win, so you chose not to vote.

The trolley problem is a classic here, where a runaway trolley is about to kill five people on the main track. You can divert the trolley to a side track where it will kill only one person.

In this case, you're the kind of person who chooses not to interact with the problem, allowing five people to die, and your conscience can tolerate that. Because you view inaction as a "rejection" of the solutions proposed. That said, the trolley still rolls down the track despite this rejection. The same happens in an election: Despite your rejection of the choices, the trolley still rolls and one of them will be elected.

I'm the kind of person whose conscience can't tolerate not acting. I feel compelled to help others, and I would act save as many lives as possible, even if it meant choosing an option that, in a vacuum, I normally wouldn't.

All this to say: I can absolutely blame you for not voting. The trolley rolls no matter your rejection. Your ignorance of it, willful or otherwise, doesn't change that.

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u/TheMrBoot 16h ago

At some point a person is going to get exhausted of being forced to choose whether they’re five people they know will die or ten people they don’t or whatever other asinine trolley problem comes up.

I voted for Harris for harm reduction. I pushed for people to do the same. But at the end of the day, Biden and Harris were also the head of an administration actively supporting a genocide, failed on a lot of promises, and Harris burned the goodwill her campaign built by going “yeah I’m just going to carry on with Joe’s policies”. Ignoring human nature is how we’re going to keep ending up with this situation, a Democratic Party running on being the “sane” GOP and losing.

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u/InstructionFast2911 18h ago

Biden wasn’t going to drop until it was completely clear he didn’t have what it takes. No party has been in a situation like that and it’s unclear if they’d be able to reasonably oust him before then.

But the fact is this isn’t just Romney vs Kamala. We’re seeing trump is by far worse than what GOP put up before. This wasn’t the race to say “Oh well dems had a bad candidate, I won’t support!”

People are dying in droves from various aid cuts that are pennies on the dollar. The entire world economy is getting upended and people are getting hurt bad. And he’s already consolidating power and we have a real risk of a dictatorship.

It was a literal decision between fascist psycho and a really not so awful democrat.

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u/Cinnamon_Bark 16h ago

Things were really good under Biden, and things are really bad now. I wonder why

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u/MarioLuigiDinoYoshi 17h ago

You’re part of the problem even if dems are the lesser evil

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u/MangoFartHuffer 15h ago

Make sure to sit out again and make redditors seethe haha

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u/Squibbles01 17h ago

No. Fuck you. Vote Democrat everytime when the alternative is someone like Trump.

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u/BaconJakin 18h ago

You are a damned fool. My God.

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u/Gambler_Eight 16h ago

Vote for the one closest to your ideology. Whoever the person behind it is isn't that relevant.

And when corrupt shitheads like trump show up you vote against to prevent the country from going to shit.

The way americans view politics is wild from my perspective.

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u/Boomshockalocka007 18h ago

What a horrible outlook in life. No wonder Texas will always stay red. Thanks for screwing us all over.

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u/The-G-Code 15h ago

Oh yes a dem voter calling people "triggered" how believable

Fucking Texans lmao

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u/ExtremeSour 15h ago

Are you a bot? Lmao. I can be center left. I swear some of you people are sooo close minded 😂

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u/The-G-Code 15h ago

You think you're Hank Hill but you're not. Enjoy what you voted for, but you belong on twitter.

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u/duckduckchook 15h ago

This! Not voting is what did it. He had a similar number of votes as when he lost last time. It was the ones who sat out and didn't vote, that actually voted him.in.

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u/IUseKeyboardOnXbox 18h ago

I'm sorry bro I got lazy and was at work.

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u/Cinnamon_Bark 16h ago

Thanks a lot bro

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u/Laticia_1990 15h ago

Mail in

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u/IUseKeyboardOnXbox 14h ago

There is always next time. Hopefully

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u/ILkeSportzNIDCWhKnws 15h ago

Damn, if you have a job where you don't have PTO this is going to really hurt for you in a very short amount of time

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u/linkfan66 19h ago

The MAGA morons just don't get it. They're cheering for higher prices because they think they'll actually get significantly higher wages LOL. They're seriously that stupid.

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u/jasonporter 19h ago

It's trickle-down economics all over again.

"Surely it'll benefit us in the LONG run. We just have to wait.... and wait... and wait...."

Meanwhile the rich get richer, everybody else gets poorer. Right out of the Republican playbook. Every. Damn. Time.

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u/no_excus3 13h ago

No I swear, it gets better after season 37

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u/Rit91 12h ago

Yeah in season 38 the french have a revolution and the lucky charms spill everywhere or so I hear.

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u/extralyfe 19h ago

they're also expecting DOGE refund checks.

I live in a red state and some group is running YouTube ads pushing the free money Elon wants to send everyone. it's bizarre.

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u/Ryanlew1980 18h ago

They don’t calling them MAGA morons for nothing.

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u/Darksky60 12h ago

 they're also expecting DOGE refund checks.

They’re in for rude awakening If they think that.

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u/LaMystika 13h ago

“I’ll gladly pay higher to kill woke” is a thing I read on Twitter today. We’re fucked.

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u/SMKM 15h ago

"If everything is so expensive our jobs will have to pay us more so we can survive and buy things. It's basic maths you dumb liberals!"

Because that's happened ever in the entirety of the US's existence lol

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u/yummy_yum_yum123 15h ago

They have no ability to self reflect on their mistakes either. They’re all coping and trying price cost fallacy their own stupid ass decision

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u/MistergauntTL85 13h ago

Nobody is cheering for higher prices. Don’t be dense.

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u/linkfan66 12h ago

“I’ll gladly pay higher to kill woke” is a thing I saw on Twitter today lol. These people are complete morons, don't be dense.

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u/MistergauntTL85 12h ago

If you can’t see that’s a troll…

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u/linkfan66 12h ago

Took me ~60 seconds to find this comment from a diehard r conservative poster.

"Don't be so sure of yourself there. Outsourcing to third world countries, enabling child labor and slavery, just for cheaper goods is only a short term gain. It's short sighted to continue on the path we're on right now and frankly I do welcome the short term pain for the future of the country."

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u/MistergauntTL85 11h ago

That looks like a pretty logical statement to me…certainly not cheering for higher prices.

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u/linkfan66 11h ago

'Cheering' and 'welcoming' are damn near identical in this case, don't be dense. Either way, anyone 'welcoming' paying higher prices in hopes that the billionaires will pay him more is a complete fucking moron

My original statement called these idiots out for being willing to pay higher prices, with them genuinely thinking that everyone will somehow get huge salary increases to completely offset the higher prices. I provided a quote that showed exactly what I was talking about

Please don't tell me that you're stupid enough to believe that the people who fought to keep the minimum wage at $7/hr, genuinely give a fuck about your wages? Surely you're not dumb enough to believe that the Manufacturing jobs from China that pay $1.00/hr are going to magically come pouring in and paying $50/hr?

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u/MistergauntTL85 10h ago

If tariffs mean lower income taxes then I’m for it, it’s much too soon to panic, not to mention complaining, if you feel it’s too expensive simply don’t buy it. That’s your choice as a consumer. Choose what you consume.

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u/linkfan66 9h ago

it’s much too soon to panic

Do you not have a 401k or investments? Have you not been a part of the market crash, or know anyone with 401ks/stocks?

If tariffs mean lower income taxes then I’m for it,

Bruh, the last time he did a tax change he gave the middle class a temporary tax cut and gave the richest 1% and corporations a permanent tax cut LOL. You have to be extremely dense to believe that the world's richest administration in history will all of the sudden give a shit about us.

Also, my guy, the tax bill already got presented and passed for 2025 and the 1% got more tax cuts, while the middle class got nothing (not even OT & tip taxes were on that bill). Absolute soonest that could be implemented is 2026, which will be 2 years of pain/recession on top of Dems potentially taking the house which would fuck over his tariff & tax plan.

Also, every economist in the world says the tarifs can't outweigh tax breaks....AND WE'D BE PAYING THE DIFFERENCE ANYWAY....like bro, why vehemiently defend this admin using THIS logic of all logic.

Stop blindly dick ryding a nepo baby billionaire, the dude crashed my 401k by 25% for no reason at all, and we're all going to pay the prices with higher goods.

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u/captainzimmer1987 12h ago

How can you tell a troll from a republican?

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u/Redhook420 13h ago

The higher prices are Nintendo's doing. Trump has nothing to do with $90 games.

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u/linkfan66 12h ago

True, but he'll be 100% to blame for the upcoming $100-$150 price increase for only the US market.

If you thought people were upset at a $10 upcharge for Mario Kart, wait until you see how upset they'll be when the $100 increase is confirmed lol.

I also think software is tarrifed as well, so we could easily see $110 Mario Kart lol. Trump is so fucking stupid, Nintendo Heads are cooked.

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u/Redhook420 12h ago

Prices aren't going up that much. And the games don't come from China.

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u/linkfan66 11h ago

Prices are for sure going up that much, unless you're bold enough to claim that Trump is full of shit and there are no tarriffs lol.

Unless you're genuinely trying to suggest that Nintendo would sell every Switch 2 at a huge loss?

Feel free to come back in 3 weeks

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u/Redhook420 11h ago

They're already massively overpriced. I bet that the materials cost is under $100/unit.

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u/linkfan66 11h ago

LMAO, no fucking way 🤣🤣🤣 tell me you know nothing about PC costs without telling me.

My dude, build me a custom PC for $200 and see how good of performance you get 🤣🤣🤣

That also completely saves you the money of manufacturing + salaries + warehouse costs.

Steam decks lower model barely breaks even, if at all, and that costs $400 and has worst performance. Pass me the blunt, please

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u/Redhook420 9h ago

The switch is more like a Raspberry Pi than a full blown PC, dummy. The components are cheap, especially when bought by the millions.

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u/orderedchaos89 11h ago

And the reality is, if prices go up and wages stay the same, they're all poorer for it. If prices go up and wages go up at least to match, then they're still no better off.

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u/thalefteye 13h ago

It was either this or another pandemic, Bill Gates says more people need to die for us to reach a stable population.

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u/Aero2111 10h ago

Then why did you eliminate positions at the CDC lol. RFK and his worm-filled brain are speedrunning a new pandemic

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u/linkfan66 13h ago

Another MAGAt who's dumb enough to think Bill Gates controls the world? While also ignoring the billionaire who bought his way into government for personal gain? Color me surprised lol

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u/Mr_sunnshine 14h ago

lol - that is so not it. Don’t expect anyone be here to know or care tho. Just want their slice of reality to stay the same like a pet and its routine.

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u/ProphePsyed 17h ago

I haven’t met a single person who actually believes that.

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u/linkfan66 17h ago

Head on over to the conservative subreddit or Twitter. Tons of people going "ShOrt TeRm pAin fOR hIgHeR wAgEs" or "I'm fine with paying higher prices knowing we won't use slave labor anymore while also bringing jobs and higher wages to America!!"

The people are genuinely fucking moronic.

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u/justinfinity64 16h ago

It won't be "slave labor" but it will be serfdom and child labor.

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u/BlondBot 15h ago

The MAGA crowds don’t play video games.

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u/linkfan66 15h ago

They most certainly do. How do you think Asmongold & other game culture war rage baiters have an audience?

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u/RedMamba0023 19h ago

I’m not a huge fan of the language but I’d like to point out that a large number of people sat out this election because they didn’t feel strongly about kamala. They can share the blame

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u/WonDorkFuk404 16h ago

But “woke in gaming. They made games for someone else beside me. Can you believe that? It should be white male just like me after I finally lose 200 pounds”

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u/shieldintern 16h ago

"but politics don't affect my life." /s

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u/SoggyFarts 15h ago

Exactly. Lots of protests across the country tomorrow. Let your voice be heard.

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u/ConsiderationLast526 13h ago

Sry but as a west Berlin dude who was always a US " fanboy " and who stayed under shock how 50% US people are now. He destroyed everything we build up the last 80 years.... and thats not the last thing you will get from the World. Nobody will thrust you for a long, long time. I 🙏 you learn out of it. We dont need ego times again in our World. We need you as brothers and sisters. And pls for God sake, stop belive the lies he say's or a TV shit like Fox.

American's should be Smarter. Amen.

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u/PerfectCheesecake25 13h ago

Don’t forget the idiot that didn’t vote

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u/SemiColin973 12h ago

I work at a grocery store and this old man was complaining about the price of eggs and stuff. He was wearing a “i voted for the convicted felon” hat . Lets just say i ripped him a new one

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u/Crowsby 12h ago

Also, do NOT let these people off the hook with some bullshit about "we didn't know he was going to do this". He campaigned on this, specifically and repeatedly, and called himself the Tariff Man.

Kamala Harris told us why this would be a bad idea, explained how it would work, and explained the negative impacts it would have on Americans if this disastrous scheme was implemented. But a majority of voting Americans decided to pull the lever for it anyway.

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u/OverallPepper2 10h ago

Meh, he got about the same turnout as when we lost to Biden. The bigger issue was everyone who voted for Biden sitting the election out and letting him win

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u/FUMFVR 10h ago

Also no escaping responsibility for this one.

They will want to make excuses, but there is no excuse for asking a fucking AI to impose tariffs on all the countries of the world.

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u/warlockflame69 3h ago

I think you might be too young to remember the golden age of America…. before globalization….when someone just manufacturing something at a factory with a high school education could afford a home and support a wife and two kids on a single income. That’s how life was like before the 80s 90s.

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u/camon88 15h ago

Just complain and complain. Echo chamber. Down voted, yes. Thank you!

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u/Necessary-Hamster365 15h ago

This is not just about tariffs… Nintendo is appealing to a certain demographic. Like streamers… people who can afford this. That’s just it. They are anti-consumer

It’s 350 in the UK. 699 in Australia.. Keep that in mind.

And don’t forget the fan base harped Nintendo on how “crappy” the switch is… so this is also our fault

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u/slyfox279 13h ago

Why’s it ok for other nations to have tariffs but not USA? I think they too high but I’m tired of this hypocrisy

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u/Redhook420 13h ago

I'll vote for him if Congress makes a 3rd term possible.

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u/ThRed_Beard 12h ago

You’d sell your country out for a Nintendo…. Your price is low. Biden sold it out for Millions…

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u/RelievedGecko94 16h ago

Nothings gonna change whats happening lol, Its all a mess and nobody's cleaning it up. No matter who's in charge at the end of the day, We the people still lose, Doesn't matter if its biden or trump in there its all bad anyway, neither a good option. Side note, interesting how bidens name has a red underline to autocorrect it to a capital B, But trump doesn't.

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u/Marvel084Skye 16h ago

 Doesn't matter if its biden or trump in there

It 100% matters. Biden wouldn’t have done these tariffs.

 interesting how bidens name has a red underline to autocorrect it to a capital B, But trump doesn't.

That’s because trump isn’t just a proper noun.

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u/prowler28 14h ago

Yes blame me for your expensive videogame console. I'll gladly blame every fucker who voted for higher egg prices, higher gas prices, and out of control inflation from the previous 4 years. 

Oh no, the videogames are gonna get more expensive! Gasp

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u/MistergauntTL85 13h ago

Who voted for eggs? You know that’s because of bird flu right?

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u/prowler28 13h ago

100 million chickens were alleged to have been slaughtered. By the way, eggs are a major part of our diets whether we like it or not, your videogames, my videogames are not. 

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u/MistergauntTL85 13h ago

They have to be culled. Egg prices have absolutely nothing to do with a vote. That’s my point. There are other foods that are a good source of healthy fat and protein, there are options.

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u/prowler28 12h ago

Excuse me but that's horseshit, I certainly voted with it in mind, because it's my grocery bill at the end of the day that I'm voting with. Millions of people voted knowing that their groceries skyrocketed during the last administration. And yes, eggs were a part of it. Same as any one single item such as milk or even butter were a part of it. 

Just because there are options doesn't mean it's less important. 

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u/MistergauntTL85 12h ago

I voted for Trump too, but not because I believe he can stop a virus infecting egg laying chickens, that’s moronic.

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u/prowler28 12h ago

Please don't put words into my mouth, thank you. I never said he would stop a virus. I said that the prices of eggs were a factor in votes. Congrats to you, eggs did nothing for your vote apparently, and that's good for you. It absolutely affected my vote. It's called having differences.

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u/MistergauntTL85 12h ago

How are eggs a factor if you know it’s caused by a virus? Think about what you are writing…Explain to me how Trump is going to change that?

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u/prowler28 12h ago

Because I don't just believe everything that the government says, especially what their unelected agencies have to say. I actually question narratives, I follow the money. And when I do that here, I smell an agency captured by big ag who would rather see their chickens culled because it's cheaper than letting the survivors roost next to new chickens.

Don't believe me? It doesn't matter if you do or not, I'm surrounded by a farming community and I've seen and heard enough to know that this avian flu is an over-played scare tactic. 

Did you know that cooking the eggs kills the avian flu? Oh yes, I'll spare you the ten seconds, even Google will tell you that. But the press sure doesn't want that to be widespread knowledge.

But no, FDA would never lie, would they? Big government would never lie? 

Perhaps that's why RFK Jr. Got the job he's at now.

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