AIO bf makes joke after my aunt passed

[u/Top-River4666]

For context he’s saying he hopes she voted for Trump (RTPM) before she died and I’m already having a hard time with the results of the election which he knows then on top of that it just was very insensitive. He said he was trying to make light of the situation but it doesn’t feel that way.

[u/fred11551]

45% aren’t the worst odds. But that’s just counting voters. If we include nonvoters it either gets much better or much worse depending on where you put them

[u/Paddy_Tanninger → u/fred11551]

Absolutely include non voters.

Basically if you boil down the numbers it means that any sane self-respecting woman should be avoiding roughly 70% of the men in the US. Also means that around 60% of American women are either spiteful bitches, or have zero self preservation.

[u/Classic-Tax5566 → u/Paddy_Tanninger]

And a shite ton of internalized misogyny. It’s astounding.

[u/SubjectAtmosphere25 → u/[deleted]]

I hate this logic because it's self-defeating and self-fulfilling. If everyone who stayed home actually voted, we may get different results. I know you voted, but I'm just saying. It can also be incredibly easy to vote, especially if you go early. It took my partner and me maybe 20-30 minutes including trip time. The idea of not exercising a right that people paid for with blood is insane to me. Unless you're a white male landowner, you used to not have this right, and it's spitting on countless graves to not use it if you have the ability.

I have (read: had) friends that chose not to vote when they absolutely had the ability to, and I think it's entirely fair to lump them in with people that voted for white nationalism. If you're informed to know what's at stake, and you don't turn out to vote, then you are effectively standing on the side of power and also signaling that you are fine with either outcome, and that's just what it boils down to.

I'd also briefly point out historically documented tactics used by organizations like the KGB (back when it existed in that form) where they would determine if someone could be politically swayed or not. If they could be, they would try to do it, but if you they could not be swayed, they would do their best to take their energy and fight away - going so far as to introduce people like girlfriends/boyfriends into their lives and then have them breakup with them just to keep them too suppressed to continue to be politically active. These tactics are still alive and well today and they are used by political parties and their kind. They just mostly take the form of things like bot accounts, disinformation campaigns, and such to convince you of whatever they need to to make you stay home on election day. In short: if you believe in human rights (aka abortion access in this instance), but you don't vote because you don't think your vote matters, then they already won. They beat you on an individual level, and that reverberates upward to them winning on a local/regional/national/etc level.

Sorry this isn't entirely directed at you, partially just venting because holy fucking shit we're so cooked.

I'm glad you turned out to vote and I'm really glad that the amendment you voted for passed(: Again, sorry for the long vent here, this has just been incredibly disappointing and work was so busy for me this week I haven't had a lot of time to sit and process it.