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[-] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Gloating that you were right at the end of the world. What a strange flex.

I'm going to assume you don't have a strong grasp of just how fucked the electoral college and voter rights are in the US.

https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-voter-suppression-in-2020

https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-trouble-with-the-electoral-college.html

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how-long-lines-affect-turnout/

I don't expect you to read those. Because you're lobbing easy potshots and offering no constructive criticism in response to my admittedly frustrated sarcastic comment.

These are for people that are interested in understanding the problem and would like to organize grass roots efforts to combat it.

I'll post organizational resources when I get to my desk.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 17 points 1 day ago

Oh, I have a pretty good grasp of how the messed up, charred remnant of an electoral system the US has works. Turns out you don't get to ignore the intricacies of US politics because every now and then those idiots do something like this and make it your problem. Plus thanks to cultural imperialism the media we consume includes more insider breakdowns of that stuff than of our own political system. Welcome to the cultural colonies, friend.

For the record, I'm not gloating about being right, although I was right. But since I didn't get to vote or campaign or otherwise participate in you wrecking our entire thing as collateral damage, impotently giving you crap about it is the only piece of agency I really have on this. As far as I'm concerned, you all did this, as a group, and the survivors are going to be hearing about it from the other survivors for a very long time. You know how chauvinists keep bringing up how the French were cowardly or the Germans were nazis when there's any good spirited ribbing across cultures even though it was almost a century ago? Well, that's you now. Because what else can everybody else do.

I mean, I will do my best to keep my own country from following suit, for what it's worth, including any type of tactical voting for anybody who isn't an outright fascist and has a chance at stopping them. But I was going to do that anyway, so it doesn't really count.

Yes the sky is falling. What we can do is local. Please be safe and I wish you all success in your endeavors.

this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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