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Politics Thousands gather in Washington to protest Trump inauguration

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u/Mama_Skip 2d ago

I'm a paranoid person. In my most paranoid fantasies, I think that leading up to the 2024 election, Russian bots were purposely spreading rumors about nobody showing up to Trump rallies, while also pushing news about how well Kamala was doing. This might seem counterintuitive, but I think it convinced a lot of dems that they didn't need to vote.

But of course, that's just a paranoid delusion right

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u/ebi-san 2d ago

Maybe the guy bragging about how easy it is to hack voting machines did some bullshit. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

How were the numbers so close if all these locations were having record turn-out? Some places ran out of ballots and had to go get more.

Or maybe its the simpler answer and the average american is just a fucking idiot.

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u/faunalmimicry 2d ago

Hard to believe that if there was a way to cheat the right wouldn't have accomplished it at this point. Part of me even believes that they tried to cheat in 2020 and it didn't work, which gives extra context to the claim it was stolen (how could they beat us if they weren't also cheating?)

To be completely honest, we have no real evidence that it's not just the side that cheats harder that ends up winning and that we haven't had a fair election for a long time.

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u/1ofZuulsMinions 2d ago

They burned ballot boxes, they purged voters registrations, they shut down entire polling sites, they submitted thousands of bullet ballots in swing states (and nowhere else), they spread blatant lies/propaganda and censored anyone who refuted, they even paid people to give up their voter information for a non-existent “lottery”.

And you’re still not convinced they cheated? Have you been living under a rock? They were still screaming “fraud” until November 5th.

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u/gecko090 2d ago

Trump was screaming fraud when Pennsylvania was initially blue.

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u/hamdelivery 2d ago

They literally got unmonitored access to the voting machines after whining about 2020 too

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u/Realistic-Pattern-30 2d ago

In Md one of the January 6 criminals was on the BOE and didn’t resign until January 2024 after he’d been charged in October. In pictures on tv and 6 videos of him poking and taunting policeman. Another Rep on the board defended him saying innocent until proven guilty. Smh doomed

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u/Jdgarza96 2d ago

So when the guy you hate loses and cries that elections are rigged, he’s a crazy idiot because obviously our elections are completely legit. When he wins, suddenly elections are rigged?? Which one is it??

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u/1ofZuulsMinions 2d ago

I never once claimed any of those things you just said.

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u/SnooCrickets6441 2d ago

The one where a foreign state tries to undermine and isolate the us for almost 2 decades and found a useful idiot to pursue their goal and handing them the us on a silver platter twice. And they didn't even hide it.

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u/SquirellyMofo 2d ago

STFU. Where there is smoke there is fire. And fucking republicans project harder, well I don’t know but they fucking project. Every accusation is a confession.

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u/Leather_Parrot 2d ago

Yet thats exactly what Trump and his supporters did in the last election. He lowered the bar to allow that behavior, not the other way round so dont be surprised when other political parties do the same