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      Yeah, who’s gonna lead the coup for the dems, Hakeem Jeffries? They gonna roll out Pelosi on a gurney? Nevermind their relative lack of influence, none of them would ever breach decorum so brazenly.

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        It’s the only thing that they have to separate themselves from the GOP, really. Same policies, but the blue team isn’t so gauche about it, that’s why you saw so many libs drunk with glee about “the adults in the room” being back in charge when Biden won.

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    Bluesky is funny because there’s a plurality of libs crying foul about election interference in the US while simultaneously posting about how USAID saves lives and needs to be protected

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    If someone believes this and doesn’t immediately join a revolutionary organization or otherwise make an effort to advance an overthrow of this government, then they don’t really believe or they’re so comfortable that creeping fascism won’t touch them.

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    Yeah, they rigged the election by taking over the entire media-sphere. They bought twitter, they pushed the tiktok algorithm. Conservatives now own CNN. OAN and Newsmax were pushed into legitimacy.

    They might have also done some major voter suppression by de-registering hundreds of thousands of people. We’ll never find out, because the media has been captured.

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      They didn’t make the Dems try to run old pudding brain to prevent a primary, or to run Harris once the pudding leaked out in public, or to run an absolute dogshit campaign on top of that lol

      You’re describing problems with bourgeois media that have always existed (Parenti and Chomsky both have good woks on the subject specifically, even Lenin talked about it iirc). It’s no more “rigging” to use it for one party like that than it is during business as usual — it is always used against the proletariat to prop up the bourgeoisie, no matter which bourgeois politicians they’re supporting.

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    Trump’s quote is enough for me, TBH.

    He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide

    Hardly proof of anything, but it was a strange thing to say and I’m inclined to believe he did, but that Trump would have won it anyway.

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    I had someone earnestly try convincing me if this a week or two ago.

    Their main evidence is that there was a large number of split tickets and tickets with only the president selected, and a github repo on a Swedish account with publicly known dominion credentials in plain text (someone literally just searched for the credentials and found one without any stars)

    There’s definitely someone out there fucking with these people.