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On election night, as the results looked to be in Trump’s favor, the baseless conspiracy theories about fraud began tapering off.

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[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's fair, and I'm sorry to have been an asshole about it.

No worries. We all have to cope with this some way or another and sometimes that mean beeing a bit of an asshole. I don't take it personal, I understand where you are coming from.

I question the fact that nearly 1 in 2 Latino voters voted to deport themselves

Latin are a conservative bunch by nature. Many of the progressiv view the left hold, regarding for example masculinity and feminism, stand in contrast to their culture. (This is a very broad statement that does not aplly to all Lations!) And many think that it's not going to be them that will be deported, it will he those Mexican drug smugglers. Which is a delusional view to hold, in my opinion. Same fore for queer folk voting red. But it is want it is and the data we have from polling and voting do add up in regards to Lations.

I find it difficult to believe that 15+ million other voters who showed up to vote for Joe Biden, didn't show up to vote for Harris.

Yes, that's hard to swallow, I agree. Maybe it's because the last vote happened with Corona in the backdrop? Maybe Trumps many Errors where much more fresh on the mind of so many. Maybe inflation kept people from trusting the Democrats. Maybe some just won't vote for a female. Or a black person. Or, god forbid, both. Lots of possible reasons. I do think we should try to understand them and filter them on in the future.

This is the most politicized election we've had in over a century, nobody didn't hear about this.

Yes, but that means you also listen to 2 party's accusing one another of beeing the devil / literaly Hitler for one year plus. I see how people who are not that interested in politics can get numb to this.

because by the time I woke up after election night everyone had already decided none of the Dems showed up and Trump had won, when according to gov websites the final vote tally and certification isn't even until mid December.

This realy sound exactly what republicans said in 2020.

I've never seen election results get called so early that I can remember.

That's because they were realy very obvious this time. It didn't come down to just a couple of votes in swingstates like in 2020.

According to this 2016, 2012 and 2008 where called on simular schedules or earlier. 2020 was an outline because of the amount of mail in votes.

I saw three different news stories about conservatives setting ballot boxes on fire. Our gerrymandering maps are so bad they can be confused for TV static from a distance. Millions of people had their voting registration purged by state level conservatives weeks or days before the election.

All of there are fair points, and they should be handled in two ways: Take evidence to the courts where illegal things happend. And try to change the system where fraud has been made legal.

Regarding both points i think it is a very real possibility that the window to deal with them is past and the Trump administration will solidify and widen them. This might have been our last fair election.

My only hope is that it goes like last time and they are at each other's throuts for 4 years or just to incompetent to do to much that has lasting damaged. But I'm not betting on that. I think this time they will come prepared. And it will be the end of America as it is now.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

You've been very reasonable about this in the face of my ranting and I appreciate it. I specifically don't want to become "blue MAGA" and level heads like yours are what's going to prevent a lot of us from going there. I'm still mad, and I still think this all needs attention and isn't getting it, though. I don't know what to do about that other than crow about it on the internet or show up to the white house. I don't think either of those are good ideas.