• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I’m not saying they won “fairly” because there is no such thing. I am saying that if we shift the blame for this conservative sweep that is not just isolated the US, on election rigging and not a massive problem with our society, our communication and our social systems, we are going to fucking lose harder next time. It’s denial. It’s the same as pretending nazis were inhuman monsters and not regular people like any of us.

    It’s dangerous.

    It’s as dangerous as fucking binary thinking where we can’t accept that there is nuance. The left is as bad as the right in this. If someone says “There may be complications” that doesn’t mean “DUR DEE DUR TRUMP DID NOTHING WRONG.”

    There are shades of grey in the world. The right doesn’t understand this, but if you CAN understand this, you are better than them, you are smarter than them. Otherwise you’re just another vulnerable mind in a world that now preys on vulnerable minds.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      17 hours ago

      THEY WON BY CHEATING! If we don’t address that single issue, they will do it worse next time, and he is going to win in 2028 with 98% of the “vote,” and use that to justify ignoring the Constitutional prohibition of a third term.

      You can’t reasonably expect to win against a election fraud scheme that has already succeeded once, and is in the process of getting even more streamlined.

      You can keep trying to find the people who refused to vote in the most attended election in history, but it will never be enough to outpace vote switching, it only gives them more votes to switch.

      • ameancow@lemmy.world
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        6 minutes ago

        Capital letters don’t really change anything. I’ve said what I said based on decades of watching these things, I know how the world works. If we chase around cheating evidence we will lose even more. It’s not how the game works. The real problem is people and what Americans think and feel, if you fix any level of cheating you will still have that as a much worse problem.

        But this is also why we don’t see politicians going after election fraud to any large degree, because they also understand how things work.