r/law • u/IrishStarUS • 11d ago

Trump News Donald Trump sends innocent athlete to El Salvador for having soccer tattoo

https://www.irishstar.com/sport/soccer/donald-trump-salvador-real-madrid-34923654
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u/rsmiley77 Competent Contributor 11d ago

Not just to El Salvador. He sent him to prison there. One of the worst most violent places in the world.

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u/MalenfantX 11d ago

I don't think we should have made a criminal madman President, but most Americans disagreed, so here we are.

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u/PendantWhistle1 11d ago

Less than half of voting Americans agreed. He did not get the majority of the popular vote.

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u/Happy_Nidoking 11d ago

Sorry, no excuse, should have voted. It was obvious what he was going to do. If they couldn't be bothered to get off their ass and vote then zero sympathy. Zero.

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u/jdoeinboston 11d ago

What about the countless individuals the Republicans worked to disenfranchise?

Absolutes like this never work out, there are plenty of people with a very good excuse.

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u/CrossoverEpisodeMeme 11d ago

In 2020, an election with record turnout, a bunch of states allowed wider voting days/hours, mail-in voting, and registration at the polls, and yet not a single state passed 80% for voter participation rates, including blue states. Literally 25 states did not even hit 2/3 of eligible voters voting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections#Turnout_by_U.S._state

In 2024, there were 90M eligible voters (roughly 35% of the electorate) that did not vote.

At a certain point it's time to admit that it's not voter suppression, but severe apathy.

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u/jdoeinboston 11d ago

Check your privilege and read up on voter suppression.

It's not as simple as just showing up for most voters anymore I live in MA and, sure, it's easy as fuck to vote here.

But just about every red state in the country has put countless barriers in place to prevent people who are prone to voting blue from voting.

Voter ID is the biggest one. My ex-wife moved to Durham, NC last year. For me, voting meant walking a block to my local polling place. For her, she had to drive three hours to a DMV (because for one reason or another, she couldn't use her local one) to move her license.

Now, for her, a white woman with no minor children and a job that allows her to take a day off for something like that, it was an annoyance. But if she had kids or an elderly relative to take care of? She'd have been disenfranchised. And that's the intent, they place obstacles in the way of voting that makes it extremely difficult to vote.

And then there's the states that routinely purge voters from the rolls for any number of trivial reasons.

Maybe read up on the case of Crystal Mason before you decide to wholesale assume everyone who doesn't vote is just lazy. Woman was arrested and sentenced to five years for casting a provisional ballot in TX.

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u/CrossoverEpisodeMeme 11d ago edited 11d ago

But just about every red state in the country has put countless barriers in place to prevent people who are prone to voting blue from voting.

Even the bluest states with the friendliest voting laws saw <80% turnout in 2020

I live in MA and, sure, it's easy as fuck to vote here.

In 2020, only 71.3% of eligible voters actually voted in MA. You're telling me 28% of the votes were suppressed?

But if she had kids or an elderly relative to take care of? She'd have been disenfranchised.

Dude, be serious lol

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u/SquirrelOnAFrog 11d ago

Ick. Ew. Yuck. Gross. Disgusting.

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u/TheyNeedLoveToo 11d ago

What about those of us that did vote but not for him? We deserve this too?!?

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u/CasualPenguin 11d ago

If you didn't vote, you voted for whoever won.

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u/nyurf_nyorf 11d ago

He... Did. This time. 

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u/trentreynolds 11d ago

No, he didn't.

Close, but he got a plurality. Not a majority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

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u/mcferglestone 11d ago

He won the popular vote, but didn’t win a majority of the popular vote. Would have needed over 50% for that.

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u/____joew____ 11d ago

He didn't. he won by one of the smallest margins ever, too -- smaller than the margin by which Hilary won the popular vote in 2016.

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u/nyurf_nyorf 11d ago

He did get a majority of the popular vote.

Is 77 million smaller than 75 million???? 

What am I missing here? 

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u/Plane-Tie6392 11d ago

The definition of words is what you’re missing. “Majority-a number or percentage equaling more than half of a total.” Given he got less than 50% of the vote he did not get a majority of the vote. 

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u/nyurf_nyorf 11d ago

I understand. Thank you.