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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Thank fucking God.

I'm not totally surprised. There was so much artificial strength projection, and a more desperate air to the late stage of the campaign that looked to me like a campaign that was seeing different info than what they were saying.

Hopefully, a lack of a super majority might limit the damage he'll cause.

Also, I don't want the US to meddle in foreign countries' affairs, but I'd like our leaders to refrain from flattering and supporting nationalists and authoritarians.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It should probably be expected that any country with the means will interfere in other countries elections. What bothered me most in 2016 was not so much what Russia did, but that we didn't seem to have much of a response to it. And yes can we please support democracy and not authoritarians. I feel like the whole cold war was about capitalism vs communism when it should have been about democracy vs authoritarianism.

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