• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    500,000 more people voted for Al Gore.

    It didn’t matter because of maybe 500 people in Florida.

    “Maybe,” because a recount was physically interrupted by ratfucking bastards. Then that delay was used for by judicial Calvinball to cancel the recount entirely.

    And then they did it again in 2016.

    And then they nearly did it again in 2020.

    And then they there was a failed coup d’etat in early 2021.

    The Republican party is a criminal organization and must be dismantled.

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      13 days ago

      later research on the 2000 election and on those ballots specifically, suggest that gore would have won had the recount not been stopped by scRotus.

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        I barely have it in me to care, when one thousand times more people voted for him and did not count.

        The electoral college should have ended with slavery.

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    well, the people did vote for the Democratic successor. and then the Republican-controlled Supreme Court butted in and said “actually you’re not allowed to check the results of how the people voted, we declare our guy won”

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      While the 2000 election was undeniably stolen, it’s kinda hard to argue the people voted for Gore. The reason the Supreme Court was able to declare Bush the winner was because the election was close enough to be decided by a single state. Gore only ended up receiving like 50k votes total more than Bush. The meme is still accurate and Americans are still generally idiots.

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        I mean, by your very own definition, people DID vote for Gore. It wouldn’t have been an overwhelming victory by any means, but they did indeed vote for him

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          ig but the meme is about Americans voting against their best interests, and the point is that a majority of them did in enough of the country such that the election came down to a single state.

          It’s just wild to see people always putting 100% of the blame on the SC and not realizing Americans are also just really incredibly awful at selecting their leaders. In a sane and just world, the 2000 election would not have even been close.