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sophrosyne42yesterday at 1:28 PM9 repliesview on HN

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GPersonyesterday at 2:09 PM

“Sounds great, except it ignores the fact that capital interests have controlled the levers of our faux democracies for decades, with no end in sight.”

This is not election denialism. This is almost just a fact except they also subjectively declare that we have a faux democracy (which also seems accurate to me).

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swed420yesterday at 1:30 PM

> Election denialism is unbecoming of anyone with a brain

Convincing argument you have there, but the choices we're provided between shit sandwich A and shit sandwich B are the problem, not which one wins.

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octopocyesterday at 1:44 PM

Political campaigns spend enormous amounts of money on ads to influence public opinion. That makes politicians beholden to their donors. Which subverts democracy from "the will of the people" to "the will of the wealthy". All of these are uncontroversial facts and fit the narrative GP is saying.

RunSetyesterday at 2:56 PM

"What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_ph...

tejohnsoyesterday at 1:59 PM

Election denialism is about rejecting official election results.

But anyway, on the subject of the usefulness of your vote, Trump was elected on an America first platform, touting ending foreign wars and avoiding new ones.

If you elected him and his party based on that I think you're going to be pretty disappointed with the effectiveness of your vote in its ability to bring about actual outcomes that you want.

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buellerbuelleryesterday at 1:49 PM

The post you are responding to is not election denialism.

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shhhutttupyesterday at 1:51 PM

Lol if voting changed anything they'd make it illegal.

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salemhyesterday at 1:44 PM

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slopinthebagyesterday at 1:48 PM

Being an apologist for the state and our current system is unbecoming of anybody with a brain

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