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Dated: 2024-12-05. Added: 2024-12-05. Alternate title: “After UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Killing, Americans Express Frustration With Health Insurance Industry”.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

just as neglecting to make a decision is still a decision, neglecting to vote is still a vote.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're ignoring the many people who have been disenfranchised, their registration purged from the rolls at the last second, votes thrown out, intentionally giving certain areas only one voting location for many many people. There's tons of reasons why someone might not vote that are out of their control.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Obviously those people wouldn't fall under "neglecting to vote", now would they?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're saying that as if 90M had a legitimate reason not to vote.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Have you seen the state of American society? In case you didn’t hear it has got so bad we’ve got vigilantes killing CEOs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

No, I heard nothing about that in a thread talking about the effect of such an action /s

Nobody with a modicum of critical thinking can seriously believe that all 90M non-voters tried everything to vote and just couldn't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's a blatant statement that they don't consider either candidate to be a legitimate choice.