• @[email protected]
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    2714 hours ago

    If it makes anyone feel any better, I’m pretty sure the election was very effectively rigged. So I think it’s by far and away most likely that a large majority of voters did not, in fact, vote for this.

    • @[email protected]
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      67 hours ago

      Abstinence demonstrates a lack of critical thought. They chose this path. They are complicit.

    • @DarkFuture
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      89 hours ago

      We should probably spend years whining and crying about stolen elections like cuntservatives did. Worked for them.

      • @chaogomu
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        47 hours ago

        The violent insurrection with no punishment afterward seems like a fun time.

      • @[email protected]
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        89 hours ago

        Elon doesn’t even have to be involved, is everyone forgetting the news of mail-in ballot boxes being trashed and vandalized days before the count? How many of those people actually got to recast their ballots?

    • Nougat
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      2414 hours ago

      That’s because many of them chose to stay home. That’s also a choice.

      • stebo
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        1713 hours ago

        not always, since for some stupid reason election day is on a Tuesday in America, some people simply are unable to vote

        • @idiomaddict
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          1213 hours ago

          Plus all of the other, more active forms of voter suppression, like banning felons from voting, surprise deregistrations, sending absentee ballots out late, and requiring people to wait multiple hours while forbidding people from giving them food or water.

          • stebo
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            Especially the deregistrations are wild to me. Where I live you don’t even have to register for elections. If they know you exist, you automatically get an invitation by mail and even if you didn’t get it/lost it, you can go to your town hall and ask for one (of course only in the town where you officially live).

        • DreamButt
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          613 hours ago

          systemic solutions for systemic problems

        • Nougat
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          Every state allows time off work to vote. Most of them, it’s paid time off. Plenty of early voting and vote by mail opportunites around, too.

          • @MutilationWave
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            411 hours ago

            Yeah that’s what the law says. But there’s a big difference between the law and reality that those of us who have worked poverty jobs know well.

            • Nougat
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              27 hours ago

              Definitely don’t exercise your rights, especially when someone is infringing on them.

              • @MutilationWave
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                07 hours ago

                Sometimes food and shelter are more important than your rights. I wish I were nobler but that has been the fact before for me.

                Never missed an election though.

                • Nougat
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                  You’re not wrong. I also suspect that most of the eligible voters who decided to stay home were not in a food or shelter crisis.

      • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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        Except it’s the party of projection. Every accusation is a confession with them. Then claiming vote fraud during the last election is the main reason I think they tried to cheat. They accused the other side of cheating because how could they possibly lose otherwise when they were cheating.

        Also the fact that all concerns about election fraud disappeared this election. Do they suddenly not think it’s rigged anymore?

    • stebo
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      513 hours ago

      you have become the very thing you swore to destroy

      • @MutilationWave
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        I’m not saying it’s definitely true but this is pretty convincing. The author lists their credentials at the end of the article.

        Here’s a preview- a shit ton of mail-in ballots were disqualified. If you are black your mail-in ballot was nine times more likely to be trashed than a white person’s.

        • stebo
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          47 hours ago

          yeah I’m pretty sure that if america was actually democratic, meaning every citizen is able to vote, the republican party wouldn’t even exist anymore, since only privileged fuckheads vote for them

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            All we would have to do is eliminate the electoral college and they’d never win another presidency. Yeah Trump won popular vote this time by 1.5% but the electoral college keeps people from voting.

            And really a lot of poor white people vote for Republicans too, against their best interest, for very sad reasons.

            But yes you are correct if this were a real democracy they wouldn’t stand a chance.