• dnick@sh.itjust.works
    23·
    1 day ago

    The issue isn’t that musk could have interfered, the issue is that Trump thinks he did and is happy about the possibility that he did.

    • earphone843@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Of course he is, and there was. There’s a reason bullet ballots were orders of magnitude higher than the previous elections, but only in swing states.

  • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    35·
    2 days ago

    If there was interference Elon hired someone to do it. That man is an idiot and there’s no way he engineered it. If there’s interference then there are multiple parties who are aware and the more people you have who know the higher the chance for someone to leak the truth. Fingers crossed?

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    401·
    2 days ago

    It will be really funny a couple of years from now when the dementia gets really obvious and everyone keeps pretending the emperor has clothes on and isn’t rubbing shit on the German PM’s face.

    Then the worst people on the planet will talk about what an alpha chad move that was.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    I loved it when my english teacher gave us a paper to read and it was about how the us couldnt turn into a dictatorship because of “checks and balances”. It compared the us to hungary which is funny because in hungary orbán had to be elected before he could change the constitution while trump changed it before he was even elected 💀(i know technically its a reinterpretation but basically the same).

    • kandoh@reddthat.com
      8·
      2 days ago

      I remember someone pointing out that the American constitution was the basis for a lot of other countries that were founded in the 1800s following the Enlightenment.

      They all fell into a dictatorship.

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        If anything, the U.S. government is almost impressive. It’s so inefficient, it even collapses slower than it’s peers.

    • مهما طال الليل@lemm.ee
      7·
      2 days ago

      The checks and balances are in theory dependent on the legislative and judicial branches being independent from the executive, but in practice they really aren’t. A republican house and senate and a conservative majority in the supreme court means the checks and balances by choice won’t be checking and balancing.

  • casmael@lemm.ee
    193·
    2 days ago

    Thanks to everyone who called me a lunatic for suggesting this might have been rigged through ballot stuffing

    • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      102·
      2 days ago

      Americans, especially liberals, have a phobia of calling out mass cheating by authority figures.

      It’s like they need law and order so much, they are willing to ignore what is obvious. When a subject is taboo it’s not talked about , not dismissed, not encouraged

      If exit polls don’t work in your state, and there is no physical ballot counting. And when tests on precinct numbers show strong suggestion of altering votes and the democrats always always underperform, it’s obviously a new phenomena, totally ok. Let’s just stop predicting elections early based on exit polls!

      One such test post election for any state:

      Arrange all precincts in the state by population and see if there a curve on the more people there are there, the more percentage of votes a particular candidate gets: if it’s only that candidate and it’s a smooth curve upwards that’s unnatural: California has no such correlation but some other states fail.

      One should see a random looking up or down plot, or a straight line, or sorta straight. Not a growth curve. That’s because common tactic world wide to alter computer votes is to ads the extra votes based on precinct size.

      Usually each state has easy to get data this way to one’s own source if amusement and the dozens of others who are thinking this might be interesting. Occasionally someone publishes graphs of it to thunderous uncaring.

      It’s not the only problem but it’s the easiest way for non computer people to understand there is more to this

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    51·
    2 days ago

    Back in the B43 election days there was concern over Ohio and FL voting, with GOP friendly tabulating machine owners. Since 2016, GOP complaints about election totals have made DNC say elections are perfect and awesome, even though OH and FL are no longer swing states and still have same voting software. Israel won is all that matters to the politicians, it seems.

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I recognize Juan Guaidó as interim president of the United States until we figure out what happened

    • microphone900@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 days ago

      Agreed, it’s the only thing that can and should be done. And, I mean, look at how good a job he did at the last place he led.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    “Start free trial now”

    As opposed to the costly and constrained trials ending with “fuck it, he gets off scot-free because we dragged our feet on purpose and he’s above the law again”

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    2 days ago

    BIG NEWS! START FREE-TRIAL NOW!

    Oh good how could I afford to miss that huge breaking story, didjya hear fellas? Newsmax is offering free trials!

    Whoever runs that channel should be taken behind the barn and put to pasture.