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You'd think a hegemony with a 100-years tradition of upkeeping democracy against major non-democratic players, would have some mechanism that would prevent itself from throwing down it's key ideology.

Is it really that the president is all that decides about the future of democracy itself? Is 53 out of 100 senate seats really enough to make country fall into authoritarian regime? Is the army really not constitutionally obliged to step in and save the day?

I'd never think that, of all places, American democracy would be the most volatile.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Nah, man, there is no amount of interference that justifies Trump having a fart’s chance in hell of not losing every single state in a country unwilling to hand the keys to these guys 1932-style.

Let's say, hypothetically, Trump had personally walked into every polling place, took every ballot that was cast and replaced them with copies that included a vote for him, and then waved his hand Jedi Mind Trick style and made everyone who knew it had happened immediately forget. Obviously this amount of interference would cause him to win the election regardless of how voters voted.

This is obviously an absurd example, but the point I'm trying to make is, saying 'No amount of interference justifies this outcome' is similarly absurd and simply normalizes and discounts the interference that took place.

There were certainly a surprising and disheartening number of people voting for Trump, but we will likely never know what the outcome would have been if there hadn't been any fuckery going on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yes we do. This election has no more evidence of being stolen at this point than the previous one did when the nazi weirdos were banging that drum. You're free to do the MAGA rounds, though, but I doubt you're going to get the same traction. Don't quite see anybody storming the MAGApitol at the moment.

Not that it changes anything, because you let it happen and now it happened, so the end result is the same, however you want to cope with whatever part of responsibility you personally have on the matter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

however you want to cope with whatever part of responsibility you personally have on the matter.

I voted for the only other candidate with a chance of winning, she won my state handily, and I did what I could to convince others to do the same, so, nope, I take zero personal responsibility for the outcome, and as such I don't need to cope with that, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I said whatever part, and that's certainly a part.

You will have some coping to do in any case, I'm afraid, and best of luck with that going forward. I mean that sincerely.