2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
This killed my faith in voting. Voting does not matter.
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That's what they want you to think so they can continue to do heinous shit to enrich their bank accounts and make your life and the lives of the people you love worse so you'll have even less energy to be frustrated enough to act against them.
 
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ZMOT said:
might've actually been smarter to just take the legit loss and try for real in 2024.
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I wouldn't say so. The establishment learned after 2016 how much of a problem the internet and social media is. They've clamped down so hard they censor and link to their own "fact checkers" for The President, the White House Press Secretary, The Trump Campaign.

Any and all reports of Bidens family links to CCP have been memory holed, along with the fraudlent charges brought against the Trump Campaign through the FBI. Multibillion dollar corporations have donated millions to BLM, a group that has it's finances go through ActBlue, and whose leaders have claimed they are "trained Marxists". And this is just in the last 12 months.

You think in 4 years they are just going to sit by, and aren't going to make sure once they have full power again to make sure a Trump NEVER happens again?
 
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Salubrious said:
I think I'm done with Facebook. Even more so.

My feed is almost literally nothing but "Trump is desparate", "Trump knows he lost", "Trump should take his loss like a man", "We've won the war against racism", et cetera.
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"We've won the war against racism"

LOL. The left will NEVER be satisfied -- they'll just keep expanding the definition. Most people don't have genuine hatred for or discriminate against others based on race to begin with.
 
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HumanHive said:
The events of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire are completely inapplicable to American politics.
While there are a few military veterans in congress, even fewer made the rank of general or command a loyal fanbase in the military that would go die for them. This was absolutely key in Roman politics, and utterly absent in the United States because guess what the Founders were explicitly trying to avoid.
Secondly, Rome treated its laws and republican traditions with very literal religious respect, as opposed to the only implied reverence of the Constitution and the Founders here in America. Half of why the transition from Roman Republic to Roman Empire went as smooth as it did - and that is counting the civil wars - is that the general public came to believe that the Gods were using Caesar/Augustus as a way to preserve and oversee the Republic. A "who watches the watchmen" sort of role. In America, there would be no such mandate from heaven and instead any dictator of any ideology would rule purely through fiat and the inability of any coherent resistance, and no other reason.
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It's not wholly inapplicable to American politics and the parts that are doesn't mean we can't learn and see where actions taken lead. How things play out in the USA will obviously not be a repeat but can be similar.
These days, with modern military tactics, you don't need superb military training to lead an army though it would be of benefit to have it. While there aren't many in Congress with the experience, that doesn't mean those that are within the Pentagon cannot align with whomever they choose in the event of chaos. I said this earlier but it would be a populous militant leader versus the Congress if federal civil war broke out; at least as how I see it playing out. In a case like this, veterans in Congress doesn't really matter, it would be more a split between those loyal to the populist to those loyal to Congress.

That said, the parts applicable have much to do with the late Republic era. Rampant corruption, a reformer and conservative faction, vote fraud, illegal use of powers, plots and conspiracies; we're seeing the similar here but the roles are reversed as the "reformer" faction does what it can to silence/eliminate the "conservative" faction.
 
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I believe this qualifies as "we have reached banana republic status."
 
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Pointless Pedant said:
Why were you on Facebook anyway?
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Most of my friends and family use it as a sole means of communication.
UselessIdiot said:
"We've won the war against racism"

LOL. The left will NEVER be satisfied -- they'll just keep expanding the definition. Most people don't have genuine hatred for or discriminate against others based on race to begin with.
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It's hilarious when white people call me a white supremacist and when I point out the irony of that, they post pictures of Samuel L Jackson in Django Unchained, basically calling me a House Nigger.
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
You will never win the war against racism, it's too valuable a renewable resource for you to let go of. If racism could make electricity, we'd have no global warming.
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They'll conveniently ignore, and rationalize, the racism that originates from minorities and immigrants. They already do that, but it will be worse now.
 
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Pointless Pedant said:
Why were you on Facebook anyway?
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Maybe he's not a person. Maybe he's a bot sent here by Zuckerberg, rather like SkyNet used Terminators to hunt down the last burrows of humans.

Salubrious said:
It's hilarious when white people call me a white supremacist and when I point out the irony of that, they post pictures of Samuel L Jackson in Django Unchained, basically calling me a House Nigger.
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Actually, this post means he just passed my Turing Test.
 
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Aaa0aaa0 said:
I'm going to vote until I can't vote no more. If they're cheating, it means they fear the people's vote and don't respect us, and I live to spite people like that.

Edit: they'll still know my real opinion, and I hope it fucking burns them.
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Have fun watching your vote being burned.
 
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GuntPunt said:
What do you mean fraud in Milwalkee? Its only at 200% turnout!
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Those two 200+% wards both went for Trump last time. Full results by ward here.

2016 Results
Ward 273
84.23% Turnout
691 registered voters
582 ballots cast
277 Trump 47.8%
265 Clinton 45.7%

Ward 274
83.28% Turnout
670 registered voters
558 ballots cast
275 Trump 49.2%
255 Clinton 45.7%
 
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Alright, so I'm laying off the blackpills to make my autistic prediction for the future of America, both the blackpill and the whitepill.

The blackpill is that the GOP are losers. Flat out. Losers, all of them, and they have been since the Bush Sr. years. Maybe they were losers even before that only Reagan gave them a boost. If they not only think that they can play fair with the Dems and will eventually have their chance at power if they only end up running asshats like McCain and Romney, then they deserve all the losses that are coming to them. The reason why Trump won, imo, is that he not only presented a weaksauce alternative to progressivism, but actual pushback. If come up in 2024 with another Rubio, then count me out, no matter how terrible a Harris presidency is. I'm not going to get enthusastic for candidates that want to conserve nothing and at best offer to maintain the fuckery as it is.

The whitepill is that Trump, despite being compared to every figure in the history books from Ceasar to Hitler to Mussolini, the best comparison imo for someone like him is the Gracchi brothers. In Rome, they were the original populists that managed to get push back against the ruling class. Populist comes from populares, the movement that the Gracchi brothers started and would later be continued by other figures in the late Roman Republic. So the rainbow whitepill is that if history repeats itself, Trump won't be the last one, and somebody more cunning and more ruthless will come after him. The Gracchis were murdered, which in modern terms, is pretty much what happened to Trump. Hopefully, this election leaves a deep resentment in people in time for that successor to come.
 
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