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Thanks for this! The bullet ballot thing seemed odd but without any real access to information about actual counts I didn't know what to think of it.
Good to know it's more than likely nonsense and we just really suck as a nation and did let Trump win legitimately. :/
Yeah, he won through good old misinformation, propaganda, and blatant lies because his opposition can't keep the successful message of hope and change going to engage apathetic voters like Obama did and would instead rather pal around with Liz Cheney and Netanyahu to try and peel away MAGA voters.
While voter suppression and Republican election meddling is a real issue, our country sucking is the real underlying problem. We couldn't even do a fucking thing about the insurrection four years ago.
Yup. They had a hook with Walz and the 'weird' talking points. That seemed to really resonate with the Republicans and made them go out of their way to highlight out weird they were.
Then they pivoted to try and win Republicans. And... they died.
'Weird' probably wouldn't have won them the election or anything, but it was working. It could have been paired with good, short talking points about helping people, and Walz is a good enough, and genuine enough (or at least appears to be so) guy to really sell those talking points in a way that didn't feel pandering or cynical.
But they really wanted that right-wing vote. It's like right-wingers telling the Democrats that they'll never vote for them just makes the Dems want to win them over that much more.
It's wild.
She could have said "medicare for all" once, instead of turning her back on the progressive left and she would have won.
She could have said, "Gazan's are human beings, and its important that all US allies receiving aid are in compliance with the Leahy law.." instead of turning her back on the anti-war left and Muslims and Arabs, and she would have won.
She could have said "The efforts of 4 years of recovering from the pandemic were hard, but clearly we need to do better for US taxpayers who are still feeling economic hardship", instead of spitting in the face of Americans by telling us the economy is great, when those Americans are having to put groceries back on the shelves because they simply can't afford them.
The campaign was a disaster. Harris was a turd in a punch bowl of a candidate and with even some basic, basic strategy she could have steered through the wickets. It was actually an easy election to win. At the turn of the tide Trump was almost as unpopular as Biden. She blew it at every possible turn.
Lessons learned for the electorate: STOP FUCKING LISTENING TO MSNBC, CNN, NPR, ALL OF THEM!
But... but... but... Have you seen the stock market? The line's going up! Economy's fine!!1!
It’s partly the way that non-Trump campaigns are run. They hire a ton of pollsters/consultants that do focus groups to find out voters points of view. They never consider the scenario in which a good candidate can change the worldview of the voters. So it sounds like the candidate never had an original thought in the world, when voters actually want a leader.
Yeah I think that we have been subjected to such abnormal politics for so many years now, that people either forget, or weren't alive to remember, that none of this is normal, and campaigns used to be very different.
If anyone couldn't see how Trump would be worse than Harris, that is honestly their fault. And now we are seeing the proof of that. It wasn't a hypothetical, we already experienced Trump once, and we're being proven right about him again. This isn't a failing of the DNC to inform people of this, they screamed it at the top of their lungs. They said it during the debates. I was jazzed to vote Harris and keep that asshole away from office. But to enough people, things like that didn't matter and they voted against their best interests, and now things are going to get substantially worse than if they voted Harris.
If anyone couldn't remember what life was like 4 years ago during the pandemic (and throughout Trump's first presidency), that's on them. I honestly can't care about people's issues with the DNC when we're faced with an entirely worse option like Trump. The time for fighting to reform the DNC is during midterms where grassroots candidates can gain traction without threat of us losing it all. Allowing a much smaller volume of complaints about the DNC to take precedent over the tremendous evil Trump presents is a failing of the voters and is why we need the department of education more than ever. This is our brexit.
Building back our institutions after this is going to be much more difficult than it is tearing them down. If Democrats win the next election, I wonder if they're going to be blamed for not fixing things fast enough after their predecessor... Like, oh I dunno... The economy?
So many fucking people here desperate to absolve themselves of their idiotic decision to vote for Trump, a third party, or not at all. They desperately want to believe that Democrats would be just as bad, and that it's the DNC's fault that they chose to ignore the dozens of people who explained to them exactly why they were making a bad choice.
Anything to avoid taking responsibility.
For non Americans: The bullet ballot is special voting process used in some rural areas, where they hang effigies of politicians up at a range, and issue a box of bullets to each voter. The voters then line up and fire their bullets at the politicians they hate the most. The politician with the fewest holes in them at the end of the day is declared the winner.
You forgot the best part. You get a full magazine for each gun you own. But the targets are set at 50 meters. So you can't just go buy a bunch of pistols. That's commy crap. Full rifles if you want to make sure your bullets count!
Also Bob gets his own shooting lane. He can bring his full armory if he wants but we aren't waiting in line for that shit. And you have to watch because sometimes he tries to sneak a grenade in there with "Both Sides" written on it.
When I saw comments about it initially, I was thinking about it a bit and thought all likelihood the people who thought it was fake were probably following the same line of reasoning as Trump supporters 2020. I don't think the left is immune to thinking more people think alike than they actually do. Its upsetting, I get it but lets not think without proper information that fraud has actually happened that it was rigged.
This is the difference. Both the right and the left have their cranks, but the ones on the left never get mainstream acceptance. While on the right, they make the crank president.
Because the left is, for the most part, intellectually honest enough to be skeptical of broad claims that seem too good to be true. Even ones that ostensibly benefit them.
While the right just grabs hold with both hands at anything they read immediately and start plastering it all over social media.
One side has the most basic critical thinking skills, and one side is lacking in that.
Seems like intellectual honesty is a weakness...
The letter, which was spammed on Lemmy and deleted multiple times, just linked to other SubStack blogs as “evidence”. Come on, people
I was disappointed in the lack of critical thinking skills in those threads. I thought Lemmy users were smarter than that. Hopefully we can put all these conspiracies to bed.
People are idiots everywhere.
Everybody is an idiot sometimes.
Even you.
Not me tho. Thankfully I'm flawless and don't have to deal with the same nonsense of ever being wrong.
There's a sizable number of people intentionally looking the other way because they think they can fight fire with fire, utilizing the same conspiracy theory thinking that the Right routinely gets away to shape public discourse.
I have to say, the thought crossed my mind. But Dems could never pull it off.
I have to say, the thought crossed my mind. But Dems could never pull it off.
I would hope that's because we won't stand for it. All I could think reading one of the previous threads on this letter was "these people are just as dumb as MAGAs but in the other direction".
I wanted it to be true so bad, and sure there were some illegal actions taken (Elmo), it's not enough to overturn anything. It's okay to feel defeated, but not to ignore facts. We lost.
Side note, watch Veritasium's video on "smarter people get this question wrong", it talks about how your political position can blind your critical thinking skills and is important to remember. You can take nothing at face value, even your own thoughts.
Anyone convinced they're immune to propaganda, bias or plain human error is extremely vulnerable to being wrong and never realising it.
Relatedly: One of the easiest mistakes to make regarding fields you're no expert in is to underestimate just how much there is to know that you don't (or maybe nobody does). I'm very prone to that one, personally.
What the fuck is this stroke of a title?
The claims made in a 'duty to warn' letter addressed to presidential nominee Kamala Harris are - according to our research - misleading.
Sorry, but this is standard journalistic practice. The sentence is correct english, even in its unedited form, albeit in the same way that buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is correct english.
I do think it's a practice that needs to be reconsidered in the interest of making journalism more accessible to everyone, but for now you just gotta learn how to read it.
People need to accept who we are, collectively, as a country. We chose this shit. It’ll be a wild ride.
Perhaps people would choose something else if third parties had equal access and we changed how we vote to get rid of the spoiler effect.
Spoonamore doesn't have shit and has admitted as much when pressed. The guy basically contests results that he does not like. He also does not know what a bullet ballot is. That term deals with ranked choice elections where someone only picks top candidates. The term he is looking for is undervoting.
I get it. When you are shown the enthusiasm at Harris' rallies and how absolutely batshit Trump is, it's pretty easy to conclude that the election must have been tampered with. But there is no evidence that it was directly tampered with. Republicans do a lot of shit to mess with votes but that is all known shit like making voting more difficult in certain areas, gerrymandering, voter roll purges, etc. They are not directly tampering with the presidential election on a mass scale nor are they competent enough to.
I was expecting it to look like a close race where Trump would cheat using the courts.
That didn't happen.
Thank you! I just needed someone to check that dudes math, very happy they did.
I’ve been peaking back on Reddit to a few sub reddits, r/somethingiswrong2024 is the main one. There’s r/verify2024 and r/houstonwade as well that have some interesting ideas and points brought up about all this. They simply dismissed this snopes report, stating snopes had lost credibility over the past years but not sure how true that is. I don’t know if I was just getting a contact high from the copium over there, I have hope still, I want to believe there is something in the works but ultimately without concrete, indisputable, outright blatant cheating thoroughly documented, there’s not chance of overturning the election. Especially without stirring up the magats nest and causing civil unrest. So do we just stick it out for the next two years and hope we can freely vote and try to gain some sanity back into this country?
There isn't. The numbers don't add up correctly anymore. You can look yourself by checking any other race in a state with the highest number of votes and then the presidential race in that state. If the difference is less than Trump's margin of victory then there cannot be enough bullet ballots to have made a difference.
This is the case in the crucial state of Pennsylvania. There are about 70,000 less votes in the Senate race than the Presidential race. Trump's margin over Harris is about 100,000 votes. That means there's at least 30,000 votes in the margin of victory that voted for Senator and thus are not Bullet Ballots.
The math doesn't math. And the cyber security stuff was always highly suspect. They basically asserted the machines were online with no evidence that was the case and no credible theory for how they would be reprogrammed to be online.
North Carolina
Spoonamore alleged that the purported hacking and fraud in North Carolina proved to be "the most extreme" and that "the public results indicate over 350,000 voters cast a ballot for Trump and no other race." However, this is false.
According to the North Carolina State Board of Elections' website, as of Nov. 21, 5,722,556 voters cast ballots. Of those, 5,699,152 ballots displayed votes in the race for president. The website also reported that 5,592,243 ballots bore votes for the state's governor's race. A comparison of the numbers for total votes and the gubernatorial race would reveal the maximum number of possible "bullet vote" ballots for all presidential candidates. The difference between the two numbers is 130,313 votes — a count nowhere near the 350,000 votes stated by Spoonamore. Trump received 183,048 more of North Carolinian's votes than Harris.
Welp.
That's not how this works folks. You are supposed to ignore all evidence to the contrary, then spend the next 4 years claiming the election was stolen and whining like a spoiled toddler
He told a good, plausible story. The count claims were the first thing I was going to verify, and Snopes pointed right to the actual source.