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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah this is fucked up. I feel so bad for everybody (esp the Americans, but this will hurt the world). Shit this prob means I should start looking into seriously helping out locally when all this explodes into more international shit. (Which imho is the best you can do anyway, do things locally, build a bit of a support network for your community).

(Note I'm not American, but I think this will end badly, just the fucker stepping out of the paris accord for example, and all the weird blowhard fascists this will make feel emboldened to do more politics locally).

E: I really hope the people who go 'this is the same as in 2020, wait till all votes are counted' are correct and not on hopeium.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i think they indeed are on hopium/copium

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I can't tell, US elections have imho always been extremely dumb. (But, in the past decades+ ours have not been much better).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

both by electoral college and by popular vote trump has advantage, and worse than that house and senate are republican now

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, turns out this is the bad place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The history books are going to refer to this era as "The Stupid Years".
Because all of this is very fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I fully expect they are, even as I also hope they're not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, it's more like 2000, really, in the sense that the courts are being used to restrict voting rights. There's strong evidence of flagrant UOCAVA violations: thousands of absentee ballots which should affect the federal election have been challenged in swing states. Edit: Here is part 1 and part 2 from an attorney whose Pennsylvania UOCAVA ballot was challenged; he goes through the law and explains what he's going to do.