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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Enjoy chasing this down to disassociate with what's going on in the country for the next 4 years. Looks comfy, like really comfy.

I may slip on a pair of [conspiracy theory] myself at some point!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

We knew damn well that Trump and co. were preparing to attempt to steal the election if necessary. We knew and have been documenting that Trump and co. were installing and/or trying to install sympathetic election officials everywhere they could in the last 4 years. We know damn well that Trump and co. already tried to cheat in the last election, e.g. trying to get Brad Raffensperger to "find me 11,780 votes" in Georgia in 2020. We know that Trump and co. are fighting hard in court anywhere they can to have mail in ballots thrown out, e.g. in Pennsylvania. We know Trump sycophants have been setting fire to absentee ballot boxes. These are not the actions of a campaign expecting to win legitimately.

Even sitting here as a random largely uneducated chump on the internet, not even rising to the level of armchair expert, I can see that the latest election results need to be investigated and validated and verified as thoroughly as humanly possible, on every level, to find where -- not if -- Trump's cronies cheated. Whether or not they cheated enough to actually affect the ultimate outcome if the election is less clear, but let's not kid ourselves. The chances that this was a completely straight and honest election are, without a doubt, zero.

If Dickhead really did win after all that, then he won. But the process must be totally transparent. There is no other way for it to maintain any semblance of legitimacy.

[–] laurelraven 1 points 3 days ago

Just pointing out one detail: it doesn't matter how many people voted for him, his second administration will never be legitimate because him serving another term is a constitutional violation after inciting an insurrection against the US government. The fact that the Republicans obviously aren't going to do anything about that, Democrats don't have the spine to do anything about that, and the judiciary is pretty much stacked with Trump cronies, doesn't change the fact that his administration will be an illegal one from the moment he's sworn in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I feel like the article was pretty tongue in cheek about the reason for the bullet vote statistical anomaly. They went right from the conspiracy theory that. machines were hacked in swing states to Musk’s fake giveaway that incentivized people to sign up to vote in swing states.

It’s like, gee, do you think they’re trying to suggest maybe there’s a reason that people who would only be interested in one race may have skewed things a little? Add a dash of targeting your marketing (to conservatives), and maybe coordination with a PAC that can phone bank, and well, folks who may not normally vote might vote for just the one big election.
And there’s your statistical anomaly. No computer hacking. Just game theory, targeted advertising, and an endless torrent of texts and calls.

Incidentally, my phone number is one that’s, well, kind of fake sounding. It’s 3 sets of 2 (in the same row!), and one adjacent singlet, like (but not actually) 99-77-88-5. And I get a lot of other people’s calls and messages. I let down a lot of teenage boys back when exchanging numbers was how people DM’d. Anyway, a few of the wayward texts this year were from Trump’s PAC talking about this contest. But I didn’t hear shit about it from any of the democratic PAC’s!

So that’s sort of what I think explains what they’re talking about. Shitty and probably illegal, sure? A conspiracy? Meh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

A spear phishing style marketing tactic that worked, spearheaded by 150 million of revenue from a desperate billionaire.

These people who voted the top of the ticket only were Joe Rogan listeners, and people who were duped by the million dollar giveaways. IMO, this is evidence of success, not evidence of foul play.

But honestly, if people are willing to check, I'm willing to let them. I'm just not gonna cry over this spilled mil... country.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

what are you talking about?

your comment makes zero sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is a very comforting thought, that what you saw with your eyes, what was ratified by congress, didn't happen that way. People are smarter than that, right! It seems so insane that it did.

You can now spend the next 4 years of this waking nightmare chasing down news about this conspiracy, and i think that seems very comforting. I might even adopt it at some point if it gets compelling enough.