What’s a common “fact” that’s spread around that’s actually not true and pisses you off that too many people believe it?

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    People who didn’t care enough to vote are just as bad as the ones who voted for Trump. They were warned what was coming and they allowed it

    • Pelicanen@fedia.io
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      While voter apathy is widespread in the US, note that voter disenfranchisement has been honed over decades so many people either didn’t get to vote or could not vote because the impact to them short-term was too great to afford making decisions for the long term (e.g. people losing their jobs while living paycheck-to-paycheck).

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      Approximately half as bad, in raw outcome terms. A vote for the opponent is significantly worse than not voting. But yeah, big losers for not even voting.