• MisterOwl@lemmy.world
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    This picture makes me fucking ashamed to be an american. What a backward-ass shithole country we’ve become.

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      And the election was not even rigged. You did this to yourselves in plain sight. It is super duper pathetic. From the boldest, most inspiring nation in the world to an insane, self-mutilating idiocracy in like a couple of decades. What the fuck!

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        Let’s be clear, all US elections are rigged in many different ways. This is why the Texas gerrymandering is an issue as well as North Carolina in the past, and I’m glossing over a lot of cases and other methods that are used because it isn’t worth my time mentioning more than those two.

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          Another fact: one electoral vote accounts for 195,000 people in Wyoming and over 700,000 people in Texas, Florida or California.

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          How does any of this matter when Trump won the popular vote? You can’t get around the fact that more than 50% of voters voted for Trump.

          I totally agree that your political system is fucked, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that Trump won because he cheated the system or the election was rigged. Trump won because he convinced people to vote on him, and that’s the real problem.

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        No it was rigged. That’s why they cried so hard when trump lost the first time. They all cried voter fraud because they were doing it themselves, after all, how could a cheater lose unless the other side is also cheating? They just learned how to do it better this time. Dump even talked about how muskrat knew all about voting machines. No one will ever convince me otherwise.

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        …it may have been… there’s some evidence of tampering on the devices. Believing that helps me sleep at night.

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        Well trump literally bragged that musk used his resources to tamper with voting machines.

        Putin said that he hoped Trump would win and admitted to authorizing large “operations” (read: massive astroturfing campaigns at the least) the help trump win. Clear foreign government election tampering.

        Not to mention that in 2020, every single republican blew up and made accusations that the election was tampered with and throughout the past 2 decades of history at least, literally every single time that they mass accused people of doing something, it was because they were projecting and they, themselves were doing it. They were obsessed with accusing the other side of voting machine tampering, if it was projecting, then they themselves were likely doing it or attempting it.

        Additionally that there is a far-fetched (read, no presented evidence) report from an ex-cia whistleblower that it was tampered with

        A conspiracy theory that I personally think wouldn’t be crazy is that the voting machine tampering was already done in 2020 by the republicans on a very small scale as a proof of concept, and they made a massive multi-month campaign on it, tired everyone, judges and population alike on the baseless claims they made so that when they full-scale began vote tampering, nobody would believe anyone that wanted to investigate possible vote machine tampering. They might have weaponized the boy who cried wolf principle.

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        My thoughts exactly. At least in 2016 we had the small consolation of him losing the popular vote. Now we see exactly what this country is and it’s just sad.

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        A concerted effort by parties interested in destabilizing the boldest and most inspiring nation in the world. Sure has been something to watch and be a part of. Future feels incredibly uncertain. Good luck, rest of world!

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        From the boldest, most inspiring nation in the world

        Jesus Christ, and you’re saying this about the Bush era. Americans really are the most propagandised people on Earth. Pure zealots

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        They’re only ashamed when their team doesn’t win. Every bad thing they did was totally valid because again, it was their team.

        It’s called “American values” where the only thing that matters is winning and crimes against humanity don’t matter.

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      This is what makes you ashamed to be American? You need to work on your priorities.