SKULL.GIF posted:

belief in the sanctity of an election is extremely important to a functioning democracy (which, admittedly, the usa has not been for some time now)

it's why clinton made such a big deal of getting trump to concede that he'd accept the results if he lost and not contest the election

if the widespread view of an election becomes that it's a sham then you're about an inch away from either needing to form a new government or submitting to total elite control

Dog Jones posted:

haha what

SKULL.GIF posted:

if the widespread view of an election becomes that it's a sham then you're about an inch away from either needing to form a new government or submitting to total elite control

Thoguh posted:

Which is why if it ever comes out that Russia, or anyone else, actually changed any votes it would be a really big loving deal.

That they did ad buys for buff gay Bernie coloring books on the other hand... meh. Who gives a poo poo. The USA interferes at that level or higher in basically every election in every country in the entire world.

GalacticAcid posted:

whatever this poo poo's boring who cares

SKULL.GIF posted:

I know and agree, I'm just reminding some people about why this is getting so much attention at the federal level

part of ensuring widespread belief in electoral sanctity is fighting back against even the small influence attempts instead of shrugging and going "what can you do?"

Al! posted:

chicken butt

nah posted:

ban the police, give everyone free guns provided by the state

Zhulik posted:

Personally, I'm just incredulous as to why it's news that governments meddle in each other's elections. Like, am I supposed to be mad that a country other than the united states is dumping dark money into someone else's elections? Should I be upset that the good american oligarchs and their paid-for politicians are being cucked? After all, they spent decades cultivating a miserable, ignorant, paranoid and hysterical populace for their own, personal, exploitation, not someone else's.

Like, I require serious help understanding why I'm supposed to give half a gently caress about this.

Man Musk posted:

It matters because everything Russia touches turns to poo poo

Mister Fister posted:

Remember when Hillary had no personality and then her consultants had an interview with (i think the NYT) where they said they were working on it and were going to unveil her new personality or something like that?

poo poo like that was probably more damaging to mother's campaign than some russian clickbait.

Mister Fister posted:

Remember when Hillary had no personality and then her consultants had an interview with (i think the NYT) where they said they were working on it and were going to unveil her new personality or something like that?

poo poo like that was probably more damaging to mother's campaign than some russian clickbait.

anime was right posted:

agreedo

i still think russian meddling is Bad and Should Be Punished but also this would have never happened with like, any other candidate. a wet sock would have won against trump lol

anime was right posted:

agreedo

i still think russian meddling is Bad and Should Be Punished but also this would have never happened with like, any other candidate. a wet sock would have won against trump lol

etalian posted:

Remember when her whole staff got stumped on how to pitch her reason for running?

zegermans posted:

I sometimes wonder if Trump's appeal to the CHUDs was what made him get the most votes of any republican ever, or if it was their visceral hated of Hillary

Mister Fister posted:

Remember when Hillary had no personality and then her consultants had an interview with (i think the NYT) where they said they were working on it and were going to unveil her new personality or something like that?

poo poo like that was probably more damaging to mother's campaign than some russian clickbait.

Zhulik posted:

Seriously, how do you stop a cursed baby boomer images account paid for by russian oil money from delegitimizing our elections by posting a picture of hillary with horns and a hitler mustache, without the same mechanism then immediately being deployed to silence any dissenting opinion in general?

And more importantly, how the gently caress does your thought process immediately go to "we need to stop russia from photoshopping a swastika onto obama's forehead and posting the picture online to save our democracy" and not to "holy poo poo how did we end up with a country full of people whose opinions can be swayed by a rage comic of yao ming voting for the R candidate, this needs to be fixed asap".

really queer Christmas posted:

I remember reading a story that after the pussy tapes came out, Hillary had stopped focusing on the election and just assumed victory at that point. I'm sure this action and story had no effect either lol

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papa horny michael posted:

You can fix the issue with people but education overhaul has only bad actors circling

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

i support legal gun ownership for every member in good standing of dsa but that's it

BraveUlysses posted:

this might be the single funniest hillary headline, god drat

i wish we could just tweet this to her twitter account every single day until the death of the universe

SKULL.GIF posted:

that episode makes me mad because it would have been really easy to cast hillary as a stern matron who will get things organized and put the government into its place after the republicans threw a tantrum and gridlocked the government over the last 6 years

instead hillary made sure to surround herself with only the brainless loyalists without a speck of ingenuity or cleverness or even self-awareness

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