Midnight Pub

How to win a "democratic" election

~inquiry

Very simple: Repeatedly refer to the opposition candidate as Hitler.

Why?

1) It justifies rigging the election, because of _course_ something must be done to stop Hitler if the electorate won't.

2) It justifies even worse than (1), because of _course_ something must be done to stop Hitler if the electorate won't.

Any questions?


wolfinthewoods

if anyone believes

any u.s. election is rigged

at least

in terms of fraud

let me know

i have a bridge to sell

in the gobi desert

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inquiry

It seems to me that how selfish people behave when they think they're not being watched demands rigging, not to mention so much more.

Does the reader of this have any keys in their pocket/purse?

If so, why?

the answer my friend
is blowing in your pocket
the answer is blowing in your pocket

;-)

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wolfinthewoods

eh

it's not necessary

when the powers that be

can game the system

without rigging

see wolin's book

on 'managed democracy'

titled 'democracy incorporated'

written around the bush jr years

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691178486/democracy-incorporated

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inquiry

Ah, okay, so we were seeing the same words/phrases differently, as to me "game the system" and "rigging" are different ways of referring to the same phenomenon that renders the voting of an electorate superfluous, i.e. renders a genuine electorate an electorate in name only.

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wolfinthewoods

ah

good

i was hoping

it wasn't

the b.s.

'stop the steal'

rhetoric

there's a lot wrong

with american politics

but the whole

charade

that they

orchestrated

was beyond

dispicable

another way to poison

the minds

of the people

and further polarize

the country

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inquiry

what is the

stop and steal

rhetoric?

I somehow missed out

on that one

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wolfinthewoods

basically trump

and his cronies

orchestrated this

'stop the steal' idea

that there was widespread

voter fraud

they actually sued

several states

and lost

every case

of purported fraud

the funny part

is they had anticipated

(and perhaps, were going

to use as a strategy

with clinton)

this whole tactic

since they had bought

the domain for the

stop the steal website

they created

in 2015 :D

i truly underhanded

and dangerous stunt

there are still many

who believe the last

election was

'stolen' from trump

also this is what

the jan 6 insurrection

stemmed from

inquiry, you been

living under

a rock the past

4 years?

;p

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inquiry

I've simply come to see all "news" created for profit fake, so I avoid it as much as I can.

When it comes to candidates, I attempt to find footage I consider contextually complete, and avoid *all* commentary of others about it. In other words, I seek to establish my own view of the candidates based on their behavior and words, and not be constantly inhaling - if not memorizing - others narratives.

I suppose that could be seen as a rock. But I don't see hiding from others narratives/stories - which they almost certainly got from yet others - as a bad thing.

Said another way, I'm very much in favor of not polluting my mind with moronia, so to speak.

Something like that.

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detritus

Yeah, what if both sides are Hitler?

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wolfinthewoods

exactly

and they don't

even have to be hitler

just really shitty people

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inquiry

Enjoy the kraut?

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