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I've literally never heard of any of these ones and I doubt most of the people who are mad about it have either lmao

I voted for Biden because something needed to be done about Trump, and Biden was just the most immediate option. So, sheer pragmatism. I'm a hard lefty registered as independent and I hate Biden too, just not as much as outright fascism.

Methinks you're going to get a deluge of special reports one way or the other. This is a pretty unprecedented moment of political conflict/upheaval in the US, and I don't think it's going to die down any time soon.

Preposterous. I can think of few precedents more dangerous to set than "a losing President is free to incite sedition against the government in their last two weeks in office without any fear of accountability." It's like if we were all on a bus and the driver was clearly heavily intoxicated...

I mean, there's no shame in admitting you have a stake in a particular result. In this case, I can readily admit that I want the Republicans to sabotage themselves so that they'll lose the runoffs and allow us to have a functioning Senate. I wouldn't want the Democrats to do the same (although...

Sometimes I worry that there hasn't been enough of an effort to turn Trump into a millstone around the neck of the GOP, and that they'll be able to cut him loose and say that he was the problem all along, not the party itself. When in reality, none of the last four years would have happened if...

My post-victory high has already worn off and now I'm just increasingly concerned about the right's push behind the illegitimacy narrative. It doesn't matter how many independent or non-partisan groups affirm the election's integrity, the election being "stolen" is going to become enshrined in...

Well you don't have to worry, since Trump still holds the Presidential Sharpie that can reroute hurricanes. :cool: More seriously, it's like I said - he's going to break as much shit as he can on the way out. (Cursory thought, but, while the GOP's efforts to suppress votes in Florida were...

Because Trump and his bootlickers get off on anything that beats down on and restricts the rights of the minority demographics that they hate. A ban on trans people in the military accomplishes nothing practical or helpful; the sole purpose of the exercise is simply to flaunt the right's...

same energy:

GET FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED TRUMP

Quite true. Just to be clear, I'm not saying I agree with those arguments myself - they're just the ones I usually see, and I want to be cautious in speaking about something I'm not particularly knowledgeable about. That said, I definitely think that at least the last two cases of disparity...

In addition to what Volphied posted, I know there are some modern arguments for retaining it, usually from what I've seen being along the lines that a popular vote-based system might result in populated, urban areas drowning out the concerns of rural areas with fewer people. Similarly, there is...

I (broadly) agree with you here, but I think the electoral college is once again an important factor to note. Where I live, in a red state that enthusiastically went for Trump, my vote for Biden essentially did not matter one bit, except that it added another notch to his popular vote total...

If Biden carries PA, GA, AZ, and NV as is looking likely, he'll win by 306 electoral votes - the same amount that Trump won by in 2016. Since we may not manage to get what we need congressionally from this election, I'll take whatever result is most psychologically taxing to Trump as a...

god the Senate is killing me The NC race is really tight, with Tillis in the lead by about 100,000 votes, at least according to what I'm looking at. I really don't expect AK will suddenly swing blue, but at any rate, their count's going to take a long while. Georgia's going to have to go to a...

CW: Misery, doom and gloom Biden's going to win, I'm pretty sure. But the Senate is slipping through our fingers, so we can say goodbye to any meaningful relief or reform legislation. The Republicans will be able to block it all, and in four years, they will blame Biden and the Democrats for...

I had heard plenty about mirages and am still cautiously confident that Biden will win... ... but without also taking the Senate, which is becoming ever more difficult to pull off, that really doesn’t mean much in terms of being able to actually pass legislation. So yay, 4 more years of fucking...

If he loses, he’ll still have three months to run around and break as much shit as he can with little repercussion. I imagine he might even feel emboldened by the ticking clock. Still better than the alternative, but this is firmly Going To Suck regardless of the outcome. Now it’s just a...

My personal nightmare scenario is that Biden wins, but then catches Covid and dies two months before being sworn in, prompting the Republicans to make up some insane Garland 2.0 bullshit about how the election needs to be rehosted because "the American people voted for Biden, not Kamala," and...