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You may not like it, but this is what peak democracy looks like (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What are these percentages?

The percent of the vote they got into power by?

Lets re-display that not as a percent of merely the turnout, nor merely the electorate, but as a percentage of the entire populations they purport to represent.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They are approval ratings, not electoral results. Bourgeois democracy regularly fails to put popular candidates in power.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

if they are

approval ratings

then

doesn't hold elections

is not like the others in more than the immediately obvious way.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 hours ago

I didn't make the meme, I am conveying the intent and explaining the numbers.