• Limonene@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    To those claiming … that the election was not tampered with

    I will agree that there was targeted voter suppression, targeted registration purges, and Russian propaganda. But all of this has been around for many elections. It’s wrong that we have to live with this in the US, but it’s already been challenged in court, largely unsuccessfully. So we do have to live with it, until it can be fixed by a legislature that actually works for the people.

    Even if you could prove voting machine tampering sufficient to change the election, there’s still the problem that 77 million voters chose catastrophe. You can’t possibly prove that this was off by an order of magnitude. We have to face the reality that there is an excess of bad voters, and a shortage of good candidates.

    • BigAssFan@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      In a democracy, however flawed it may be, politics are still the result of a large part of the population’s will. Which is strongly influenced by propaganda of course, and without much thought of all the consequences that it may have, but still. Protest against these politics can come in many forms, depending on how strongly people are affected by it, never mind how exhausted people think they might be.

      Then there’s also the military, does anybody here have any insight how they feel about the recent political changes that have been carried through?