Generally speaking, one of the best explanations of the US political system.

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    13 days ago

    Look, a video that doesn’t even mention local elections and pretends that voter turnout is 100% in the first minute, just screams russian psyop

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      13 days ago

      Huh. I watched the video, and it didn’t claim anything like 100% turnout in the first minute.

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        12 days ago

        Yes, it did and I quote: “Sure, everyone casts their ballots every 2 years” at 0:35. This has never happened in an election in the USA, the highest voter turnout was 81.8% in 1876. The last time voter turnout was higher than 70% was in 1900. Source: https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_turnout_in_presidential_elections,_1840-2024 The voter turnout numbers are much lower for midterms and other elections, so the choice of words is dangerously misleading

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          12 days ago

          You’re being deliberately obtuse on this. “Everyone goes grocery shopping on weekends” is the same sort of construction, yet it doesn’t actually mean “everyone.” It’s referring to “everyone who votes.”