• knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    Of course they were. Just off the top of my head I can name 1968, 1980, and 2000. That these were all years in which Republicans won the White House is a genuine coincidence though, election rigging and other actions of the capitalist class to control the state institutions are quite indifferent to political parties.

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      10 months ago

      People always point to Russias use of Facebook target ads to prove this, which seems to be letting Facebook remarkably off the hook.

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    10 months ago

    ITT: settlers angry that they’re getting called out by a despot arguably no different than the despot they uplift on “either side” of the aisle.

    Our elections are rigged-- the only people allowed to make it to the finals are racist, genocidal, war-mongering, capital-extolling, military-industrially paid-for ghouls; regardless of what color tie they wear; and it’s been that way for the last 50 years. Putin is capable of being a beneficiary of the same kind of rigging on his own end and being absolutely correct about how Occupied Turtle Island is rigged.

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    10 months ago

    Undoubtedly - the SC rigged one on the record, and GA wiped election servers from another after receiving a court request to hold them for investigation - but it sounds like he was just stirring the pot about mail-in votes with this statement.