<story><title>International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees</title><url>https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/international-travel-guide.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klausjensen</author><text>Technically, only ~57% of eligible voters actually voted. Of those, about half voted for Trump. So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump. That is pretty standard for a US presidential election.&lt;p&gt;Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;policy-and-politics&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;13587462&amp;#x2F;trump-election-2016-voter-turnout&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;policy-and-politics&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;13587462&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>bkor</author><text>Around half did want him? That&amp;#x27;s a significant of people to me, no matter if they have the majority or not.</text></item><item><author>ItendToDisagree</author><text>The majority of US citizens did not vote for Trump. Just thought I&amp;#x27;d point out that most people DO NOT want this president.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>We had serious plans to go on holiday to the US this year. I have been in the US at least a dozen of times, and absolutely love the desert states, Oregon, and Washington.&lt;p&gt;Entering the US was already a large hassle, but with Trump&amp;#x27;s travel bans, rumors of phone, laptop, and social media checks, we have decided to postpone our travel plans until the political&amp;#x2F;security climate improves.&lt;p&gt;Semi-related: we were in the market for a new car. One of the factors we decided to go for a European car this time (we had a Ford Focus before) is that we&amp;#x27;d like to support Trump America as little as possible.&lt;p&gt;Before you say that this is overreacting, hear me out: the US belongs to US citizens. If you want this president, fine. But some of his policies, such as denying climate change and undermining journalism is going te have a large influence on the rest of us.</text></item><item><author>8draco8</author><text>I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I&amp;#x27;m Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost no reason. It&amp;#x27;s sad but from where I sits US starts to look like all of those countries they was fighting with &amp;quot;for the freedom&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danieldk</author><text>&lt;i&gt;So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The remaining 43% voted for &amp;#x27;I&amp;#x27;ll take whoever wins&amp;#x27;. So, ~72% of the eligible voters can be held accountable for him becoming president.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Definitely, it is legitimate, even if we don&amp;#x27;t like the outcome ;).</text></comment>
<story><title>International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees</title><url>https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/international-travel-guide.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klausjensen</author><text>Technically, only ~57% of eligible voters actually voted. Of those, about half voted for Trump. So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump. That is pretty standard for a US presidential election.&lt;p&gt;Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;policy-and-politics&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;13587462&amp;#x2F;trump-election-2016-voter-turnout&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;policy-and-politics&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;13587462&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>bkor</author><text>Around half did want him? That&amp;#x27;s a significant of people to me, no matter if they have the majority or not.</text></item><item><author>ItendToDisagree</author><text>The majority of US citizens did not vote for Trump. Just thought I&amp;#x27;d point out that most people DO NOT want this president.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>We had serious plans to go on holiday to the US this year. I have been in the US at least a dozen of times, and absolutely love the desert states, Oregon, and Washington.&lt;p&gt;Entering the US was already a large hassle, but with Trump&amp;#x27;s travel bans, rumors of phone, laptop, and social media checks, we have decided to postpone our travel plans until the political&amp;#x2F;security climate improves.&lt;p&gt;Semi-related: we were in the market for a new car. One of the factors we decided to go for a European car this time (we had a Ford Focus before) is that we&amp;#x27;d like to support Trump America as little as possible.&lt;p&gt;Before you say that this is overreacting, hear me out: the US belongs to US citizens. If you want this president, fine. But some of his policies, such as denying climate change and undermining journalism is going te have a large influence on the rest of us.</text></item><item><author>8draco8</author><text>I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I&amp;#x27;m Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost no reason. It&amp;#x27;s sad but from where I sits US starts to look like all of those countries they was fighting with &amp;quot;for the freedom&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woof</author><text>A large number of Democrats voted for Trump by not voting at all.&lt;p&gt;They made a choice to let Trump win, just to tell Hillary (and the Democratic Party) that they didn&amp;#x27;t like her!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;omribenshahar&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;the-non-voters-who-decided-the-election-trump-won-because-of-lower-democratic-turnout&amp;#x2F;#2d0d5ce053ab&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;omribenshahar&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;the-no...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>