• S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Therefore it would be technically impossible to hack voting machines since the paper trail would not match up. Wishful thinking though."

    Yeah if you ask for a recount. The one the DNC never bothered with.

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      In this case, unfortunately, the past is indeed indicative of the future. Oh and by the way, fuck you Merrick Garland you useless quisling and coward.

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    The one thing I know in my heart and in my soul is these guys will fuck something up so badly that their own base will demand they be torn to shreds before these 4 years are up.

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      I wish people would stop conceding even that about Elon. The guy is not some technical whiz at anything that I can discern.

      Does he even have a real degree?

      Virtually all of the self-created myth about Elon seems to be complete bullshit.

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        Elon musk is great at buying companies that could be promising and getting them to massively grow. It’s likely mostly about being able to secure funding, but it’s something I guess.

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        You don’t understand they guy is an absolute genius, he’s on the factory floor every day, with a welding machine and soldering iron building all theses Tesla’s. He also wrote all the software himself so we have full self driving cars since 2015, they never crash! I just took a robo taxi this morning, it was kind of big and there where other people in it, but I didn’t have to drive or do anything, all thanks to Elon.

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        There’s nothing special about starlink. They’re just big routers. And unless an election office is running off starlink, (they aren’t), there would be evidence all the way down the line to the ground terminal used to connect to starlink. Furthermore it would require well over 100 people from both parties and disparate social groups to keep a secret. Because it would absolutely be noticed. And the people whose job it is to notice it don’t stay quiet, it’s kind of their thing.

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    It doesn’t fucking matter. He can splatter an infant against a tree like an old testament god and nothing will ever happen then either.

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        Oh come on… Maybe in 2020 you could get away with this blind positivity but at this point you’re just denying reality.

        Keep track has existed pretty much since Trump first showed up, “we’ve” accomplished fuck-all. We did however elect a feckless piece of shit who picked another feckless piece of shit to run the DOJ and together they also accomplished fuck-all.

        Trump is going to get away with literally everything, as he already has, save for some state level civil b.s he can’t use the DOJ to make go away.

        Defeatist or blind positivity, none of it matters. We have no control. You can, as I have, and many others, shout from the rooftops of all the shit we’ve kept track of, but as long as fox news exists, as long as Elon keeps buying social media to control, we will have next to 0 impact getting people to realize.

        Honestly keeping with what I’ve just said, even this means nothing and has no real purpose. I think “keep track” just triggered me. It’s all useless.

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          Maybe it’s worth keeping track of so when the dust all settles and it’s all over, someone has a real-time record of it.

          I basically agree with everything else you said though.

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        I appreciate your effort but a person is smart people are dumb. OP is correct and not only that his smiting a baby will come with a chorus of applause. This only changes when the idiot masses wake up again but I fear WW3 has to happen first. History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes. This is the path we are on.

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        Yeah. Trump and his supporters don’t matter. Take from them everything, and leave them with nothing but regret, fear, and pain.

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    Here we go again. Even when he’s literally found guilty, it makes no difference because there’s just not the will to make it stick.

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    He can confess to multiple murders and show the bodies on stage and nothing will happen. The US “justice” system only applies to poor people.

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      And Democrats. You’re going to see the DOJ move at light speed now. Moved at glacial pace with the previous administration but now that vindictive retaliation is on the menu they’re going to give Sonic a run for his money.

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        Maybe, or maybe we’ll get a lot of firey talk, sternly worded letters, terse lunches, and frustrated phone calls from both sides.

        And then they’ll all meet on the green at 2pm and have a leisurely game of golf before going home to their mansions in their gated communities.

        And the media will jingle the next shiny thing for us to look at.

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      He could rape and murder kids on stage and nothing would happen, and his supporters would dismiss it by saying that the kids deserved it. He’s a narcissistic psychopath, and he holds the nuclear codes.

      Good luck, America.

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      Yep I am not giving to many conspiracies but I do believe he cheated in many states. Only how he could win the popular vote. But unfortunately he still won because of sexiest and racist.

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        What evidence do you have other than “a feeling”? Which is what the republicans have been insisting on since 2020.

        MAYBE there was limited election fraud in swing states. Nation wide, there was consistently lower Democratic turnout in basically every county in every state. That is HOW trump got the popular vote. Because people were too fucking stupid and selfish to go fucking vote.

        So unless trump controlled every single machine in every single county? He won. And if he DID control that, he would have won by much larger and much stupider margins.

        The problem was not “the computers” (that is gonna be the 2026 and 2028 problem…). The problem is that we spent the past 8 years smiling and nodding when self proclaimed leftists can’t go five fucking minutes without ranting about how nobody’s vote matters and we all deserve to suffer because their candidate didn’t win in two thousand and fucking sixteen.

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          It’s time to arm yourselves “leftists.”

          I got mine, do you?

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            Oh such a big strong man with a big strong gun.

            What are you going to do when a tank rolls through your house? Or a drone blows it up? Oh, I know, you are going to rise up and fight the power. Except the cops and military have way more guns than you do.

            Let alone the fact that we live in a surveillance state and it will be trivial to track down the crack team of assassins to a suburb that can just be leveled.

            Life is not Red Dawn and you aren’t going to stop the fascists just by screaming “WILDCATS!!” at the top of your lungs. There is a reason the republicans, who have been planning this shit since reagan, are also the party of guns.

            Because they don’t do shit other than act as a lightning rod for morons

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              So your answer is no? That’s not an acceptable answer to me or my family comrade.

              I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

              It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).” They’ve been very successful and those think tanks are now pipelines used to funnel ideological purists into powerful positions like our current Supreme Court.

              This has been a concerted effort going back almost 70 years, Reagan was just the first actor they hired. One of the primary ghouls/traitors responsible for the attempted overthrow of our government on J6 was Roger Stone, the same traitorous ratfucker who began his career working for Nixon and has a fucking Nixon tattoo on his back. It’s really impossible to overstate just how fuckin’ bad these people are and they’re winning.

              Maybe you don’t have anything to lose friend, that’s great. My suggestion to you would be to sit quietly and let those who do continue the discussion. And I’ll re-iterate for my “leftist” friends now is the time to arm yourselves friends, the police will not protect you. Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could absolutely happen here.

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                Again. What is even your fully automatic assault rifle going to do against a military with tanks, drones, and surveillance on every corner?

                Because that is what we are up against. And I would rather not waste time with security blankets that justify military operations on civilians targets.

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                  What is even your fully automatic assault rifle going to do against a military with tanks, drones, and surveillance on every corner?

                  Bro IDK where you’re even coming from I didn’t say anything about assault rifles or the military relax.

                  The right to bear arms is fundamental, gtfo with your “the other team is the gun team” BS. In the short term, when a truck flying a MAGA flag drives into the local gay community looking for fun I’d like there to be an armed support network for that community since we already know the police response will be slow. Longer term, if infrastructure collapses (or is intentionally neglected) expect to see migrations into rural areas in search of food and other resources. It’s hard to hunt (and defend yourself against fundamentalists with guns) without guns.

                  My comment was clearly not meant for you, I’m not sure why you’re so hostile. Would you suggest threatened and marginalized groups remain defenseless?

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    “He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers, those vote-counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.”

    Trump is so old he probably means human computers. They were still around when he was a young man. Right? He meant the people counting the votes, right? Heaven forbid he actually tried to monkey with the voting machines. Because that would be illegal, and totally unthinkable for someone with a stainless reputation like His Orangeness…

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      Don’t assume there’s anything meaningful behind what he says. His algorithm is mind-numbingly simple: say stupid shit. If it gets attention, double down.

      That’s all there is. There is no thought and no feeling. He has no more inner life than a cockroach.

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        say stupid shit. If it gets attention, double down.

        And that’s exactly how he gets away with all the stuff he does: people simply assume he’s talking crap, until they realize he wasn’t.

        Trump should not be allowed to say anything remotely controversial without meeting fact-checking and extreme resistance at each and every step. Either that’ll teach him to be careful with what he says, or he’ll eventually get caught incriminating himself. If people let him say any old thing because of the sheer volume of bullshit coming out of his piehole, he’s gonna keep getting away with everything.

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      Do you have a source? I don’t remember it and I’m not turning much up by searching.

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          It looked reasonable on the surface, largely because of the “factual” claims he made. But as soon as you start peeking into the publicly available numbers, it falls apart. He said 11% bullet ballots in NC. It was around 2.2%. That’s the one I verified myself.

          In North Carolina, which saw 11% of votes for Trump cast as bullet votes.

          NC had 5.67m presidential votes. NC had 5.54m gubernatorial votes. A difference of 128k. 128k/5.67m = 2.257%

          I checked a couple other NC races as well. It doesn’t get close. Not to mention places like NYC went more red too. Do we think they cheated in NYC too? Did they cheat literally everywhere?

          Of course the bullet ballot guy makes the claim that the swing states and the surrounding states are different, but they really weren’t. His numbers are just lies.

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    Some people may think that, but from the video it is not clear. He just mentions Elon knows computers very well. There will be enough real news with president Trump, we don’t need this kind of journalism.

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      It sounds like standard demented Trump. Musk -> Technology -> Computers -> Voting Machines -> Hey, everybody remember, how I won the election?!