And watch MAGA eat this shit up.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
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Why would putin lie about such a thing? I'm going to blindly believe him since it confirms my existing beliefs.
MAGA and tankies. I'd say strange bedfellows, but honestly, they're not that different beyond what shade of red they prefer to be painted.
they're not that different beyond what shade of red they prefer to be painted.
CCP Red or Kremlin Rouge
I prefer them in Ukrainian Missile Crimson
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Cosplay communists.
No one who's an actual communist would support Yeltsin and the Oligarchs' friend Putin.
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This 100%. The Russian propaganda to right wing talking heads pipeline is just so painfully obvious.
Elections have been rigged for a long, long time. Gerrymandering is absolutely insane. Cities with meandering sections cut off. Disadvantaged suburbs slammed into afluent areas across town to dilute the votes.
But not rigged in the way Putin and the Republicans claim. Rigged in ways that help them.
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"In the United States, previous elections were falsified through postal voting ... they bought ballots for $10, filled them out, and threw them into mailboxes without any supervision from observers, and that's it,"
Problem - That's not the way vote by mail works.
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You register to vote and place a signature on file.
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You get your ballot in the mail and vote.
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You put the ballot in the mailing envelope and sign the back of the envelope.
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When the ballot is returned, they compare the signature on the envelope with the signature on file, if it matches, the ballot is set aside for counting.
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If there's a PROBLEM:
A) Missing signature
B) Signature doesn't match
C) Ballot damaged or unreadable
D) Ballot already recorded as present
The ballot gets returned to the voter for correction, assuming there's enough time for it to be corrected.
What Putin describes wouldn't work, because the fake ballots either wouldn't have a signature, wouldn't have a valid signature, or wouldn't correspond to a registered voter.
Won't matter, he is speaking directly to MAGAs, and they already believe that this is the truth
You know how the Nigerian prince scams intentionally use terrible English to filter out the stupid ones?
Half the people you come across are below average. Technology has made it exceptionally effective to target the dumb and vulnerable.
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President for life speaks about elections being a bad thing.
So weird that Trump and Putin have the exact same opinions. Do you think Trump is controlling Putin?
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Putin dying will be a holiday.
I mean he should know since he was one of the people paying to influence the election.
"by me lelelelelelelel" - Putin prolly
Rhetoric of this sort just promotes distrust in election systems, which of course prompts demagogues like Trump to promise voters they can fix it if they gain power. The fun thing here is that the right here needs you to believe things that aren't true in order to justify them doing a coup, the stupid thing is that stupid people take this kind of talk seriously.
But seriously, American voting is relatively secure- it's just that where lawmakers don't want voters deciding the 'wrong' way they've gerrymandered them into districts to prevent them doing it, and they've done things to strip voters of their voting rights and to suppress voting and to make it inconvenient or difficult to vote. This has been a bipartisan thing in the past, but today the GOP are the chief offenders.
Also, Putin's Russia is in the stage of democracy where elections are an exercise in flaunting the death of democracy itself, and nobody should ever take his talk about elections as being in good faith, ever
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Always has been.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College
Of course, if it was a popular vote, the parties would apply entirely different strategies in elections, so we cannot be sure what would've happened in the past if popular vote mattered.
I never really understood this. Why do an election when the electoral college decides who the winner is?
I'm not a US American.
The electoral college complicates things by having each state be its own separate popular vote.
Two states, Nebraska and Maine, will split their electoral votes based on their popular vote. But the rest of the states just give all their electoral votes to their popular vote winner.
The core issue is that a presidential candidate can win 50.1% of the vote in a state and will receive all electoral votes as if 100% of the state voted for him.
A secondary issue is that one electoral vote in Wyoming isn't equal to one electoral vote in California because of each state having a minimum of three electoral votes. Wyoming has a smaller population than many cities in the United States.
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The original thinking was the electoral college could stop any truly disastrous votes. But we've seen how that goes! Now we're stuck with it because it helps one party and would require a constitutional amendment to abolish, and too few people in power are interested in doing what's right for the country - they're interested in doing what's right for their party.
(For another example of the "party first" mentality that has taken over: Washington, DC residents have no vote in Congress. This seems like an obvious thing to fix, give them a two members of the House and two Senators....but whoa, we can't do that, it would change the balance of power in Congress! Seriously. That's why DC residents have no real voice in Congress. For clarity, their votes do count for the Presidential election.)
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Protecting bitch, Putin rigs Russian elections and tried to rig ours again but failed. Fuck him
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And he wouldn't lie would he. Internationally known as being a reasonable person that he is.
God, what a stupid article, why the hell was this even reported? Oh never mind it's Yahoo news, that's why
Cool story.
Why is it so hard for people to judge credibility? It's just (1) listen to a statement, (2) ask if what a person is saying directly benefits them and (3) if it does, require evidence to believe it.
We know this is not credible because by saying it, Putin diverts attention from his own corrupt election and normalizes election fraud. So did he provide evidence? No. So it should be ignored.
Can't we all just... Do that?
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Who cares what that failed czar pussy says kek
Even the one that trump won?
Especially the one Trump 'won'.
Rigged primarily by the electoral college by making some people's votes worth more than others.
I love the logic pivot on people who in the 90s thought russia was just straight up evil are now looking at them as the bastion of conservative ideals...
Go move to Russia boys, oh you don't want to? Why not they apparently have it all figured out.
Hey Putin, we're all saving up for the gigantic party we're gonna throw when you blow your (meager collection of) irradiated brains out all over your disheveled office.
Also the table you use for meetings is SMALL!
Because he has the receipt 😂
Source: Trust me bro Trump.
Interesting.
Seems like they're going to be shooting for an off election cycle coup, since their last one failed and its not quite time for the next window of opportunity.
The supreme court taking up Trumps case the most significant case in the history of the United States. It will decide if our constitution has any real meaning (in some ways, it determines the tests the very legitimacy of constitutionalism as a system). The language of the constitution, and the interpretation of this amendment is very cut and dry. No one can reasonably argue it wasn't designed, and intended to prevent Trump or Trump-like candidates. It was an insurrection against the United States of America. He not only partook in it, he led it, supported it.
So this may be a signal that Putin thinks the Supreme Court will rule against Trump. Go ahead and start seeding the doubt around the next election cycle now.
It may also be a sign for something far more nefarious, that perhaps rather than allowing a ruling to happen, Trump goes for a coup-in-name-only, makes the claim that the election was stolen, and that he is 'President-in-Abstentia' sitting in Moscow. Then gets his lackies to make road blocks across the country, idk.
Once again proving the old adage that every accusation from the fascists is a confession, in Russia too.
He should know.
I had to double take to make sure it wasn't Jokes and Humor but actually World News
Well, if anyone knows about rigging elections, Putin certainly qualifies!
Putin’s the type of dude who would steal your wallet and then help you look for it
oops! he forgot to activate the Trump puppet first, lol
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