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Sniffed the onion

That's roughly the total COVID death toll for that period. The term "excess deaths" is used to refer to the deaths which occurred above the typical yearly mortality rate. In other words, the deaths which are roughly attributable to COVID.

I don't know if that's what you meant, but it would be easy to read your comment, given the context, as saying that Trump caused 522,368 deaths in 2020.

If you want to quantify the deaths caused by Trump's mismanagement, you'd need to compare COVID deaths relative to population. I actually managed to find that (to my surprise)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

If you sort by deaths per million (total), the US is 16th from the bottom right above Brazil, Slovenia, and Lithuania. And right below Latvia, Chile, and Poland.

You could also download that data set there, find the global average, sum up the difference between that and the US, and roughly say that number is the death toll for Trump's mismanagement.

Almost sounds like you're suggesting that people think that one party is more dangerous than the other merely because of partisan biases.

I'll readily agree that both parties suck. I will strongly disagree that they suck equally. It's not even close, honestly.

I think there's a place for both. So long as none of it becomes mandatory, and online communities can freely choose to offer anonymous or verified identities, it's an idea worth trying.

I played this so long ago, and every game has flaws, but I don't recall any big issues. What are the flaws you remember these eleven years later?

Can't believe I googled matoran feet just to find it's Bionicle

https://current931.bandcamp.com/album/hypnagogue-2

I've been thinking recently that Lemmy would simply be better off without any comment votes. I've heard some instances disable them, but it still seems to be the norm. Group think already has enough pull given human nature. It doesn't need a boost.

Resistance requires hope. I appreciate people being willing to imagine how things could get better from this point. If you aren't willing to allow yourself to even imagine victory, you've already lost.

I wasn't thinking so specifically about Biden voters who stayed home in 24. I see that's what you were talking about initially.

If you simply ask everyone who voted for Trump, the economy was the top issue. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/13/what-trump-supporters-believe-and-expect/

That's all I was saying. But there are, I think, three groups which it would be interesting to have this answer for. The first is the one you mentioned. The other two are people who voted for Biden and switched to Trump, and people who chose not to vote in 2020 and voted for Trump in '24. I couldn't find those answers readily.

Big? Sure. Biggest? No. Biggest was "the economy". It's practically a law of nature that inflation ends governments.

I don't know the specifics here, but when there was a wildfire in my area they did something very similar. It wasn't just the lead time on materials, it's that most insurance only pays to rebuild what you had. You have to have additional coverage for upgrades, I think it's called local ordinance or law coverage, that pays the difference between the value of your house as it was, and the cost of building a new house to current code. Turns out most people don't have enough of that extra coverage to actually meet the expense.

So they made an exception and let everyone build back to the standard they had. Afterwards they changed the minimum for that local ordinance coverage state-wide, and premiums have like tripled since.