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  1. I mean, this is factually correct. They make it sound nefarious with "a single group of people" but it absolutely is true that capitalists control every aspect of society regardless of whether the president is red or blue.

  2. I mean, Bill Clinton was a regular at Little Saint James. It's funny to me that it's just democrats listed, like come on guys we know that rich people have engaged in pedophilia so at least some of them are dems lmao.

  3. No, dumb maga bullshit

  4. No, dumb maga bullshit

  5. No, dumb bullshit older than maga

  6. No, Alex Jones bullshit. I think the single greatest argument against this is just how ineffective every school shooting has been to create gun laws. Like why would they keep doing this if it never results in stricter regulations?

  7. I don't know about specific videos but Ukriane absolutely has openly lied about tons of shit in this war so I'm pretty comfortable saying they've blamed tons of shit they've done on Russia.

  8. If you incorporate a Nazi militia into your national military, does that make you a Nazi sympathizer? Like I don't think Zelensky himself is a Nazi but geez this question is hedging a lot.

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I have 0% confidence that voting machines aren't rigged in every election because of how many times its been shown to be trivial to do so, and we know elections have been stolen before (2000 presidential election stands out as the highest profile case). While both parties could definitely do this, it's possible that the Democrats don't try because they really are stupid enough to truly believe in the system.

    • Good_Username [they/them,e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

      Edit: don't click the link below. It's not a real website, I didn't know adding a .com would result in a clickable link. I'm getting too old for all this computer nonsense.

      There was that website up for awhile, BernieWouldHaveLost.com or something, and I actually am pretty convinced by the evidence put forward that at least in the Democratic 2020 primaries, there was some voting machine fuckery. Looking at how well Bernie did in places like Colorado (which has no voting machines at all, everything is paper) compared to how poorly he performed in other states was particularly convincing to me.

      So yeah, I dunno. It would be easy to fuck with voting machines and their tallies and fundamentally, I do believe that's happening, probably in every election they've ever been used in.

      This is one of those things I'd never mention around any lib, however, because the evidence you need to say something like this basically doesn't exist. We would need people on tape (probably video) admitting that they tipped the scales, and even then that video would probably get called fake.

      Fucking American electoral politics, my God.

      • ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        The Iowa primaries were rigged both times as well. I was there and saw some shit, and its been pretty well documented by other people.

        • KoboldKomrade [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I mean, just look at the Iowa primary wiki. Bernie got double the votes of Biden and almost half the delegates. Don't even need to rig the votes.

          • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            its the difference between 'rigged' as in under the board cheating and moving of votes and 'rigged' the system is designed and upheld to advance a certain sort of candidate. Like, the 2016 primaries were rigged by super delegates but those are also in the rules.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Americans, liberals and conservatives alike, will get angry at the suggestion that elections might be tampered with this (with exception for Biden's election with the later group, but that's a special case). They have to believe our elections work and the outcomes are correct.

        However, when I try to describe how democracy works in Cuba... it doesn't matter how much painstaking detail I go into to show the elections aren't rigged. Like, they literally just have secret paper ballots put into a box and then they're counted publicly. Basically tamper-proof. But whenever I've brought it up to any American, they are 100% convinced the Communist Party rigs every election to ensure they win, and they will not consider any evidence to the contrary.

        • berrytopylus [she/her,they/them]
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          2 years ago

          All elections can be tampered with, secret ballots can be faked/swapped out and open voting can be blatantly bribed or punished for.