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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: What would be more chaos?
Date: 10/30/24 2:17 PM
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So then there will be riots from the right, and they will not agree that things are fair.

So of the list of examples, you think 1 or more is likely?

There are always things that people will claim are "games" being played on ballot count watchers.

I just gave you an example of a game being played. To recap, the local democrat running ballot counting a in Washington state election office had a Republican tossed out of there for not wearing a mask.

This didn't happen during COVID, this happened a couple of days ago. Monday, to be exact.
The local democrat claimed that "50% of his staff got COVID" or something and claimed authority to institute a mask mandate.

Can you not see how bad this looks?

So if you're already prepared to seize on any of that sort of stuff - which happens in every national election and will happen again for certain - as evidence that things aren't fair, you're just saying ahead of time that the right won't believe that the election is fair unless Trump wins.

I don't accept this framing. left wingers riot as a matter of course and despite all the caterwauling about J6 the ratio left wing riots to right wing riots is about 1,000 to 1.

I also note that no one has pushed back on the notion that left wingers riot in any scenario where Trump wins.

Most of those things didn't happen in 2020, but the right claimed the election was unfair - because people claimed they happened, and by the time it got into a court and the parties were forced to admit in court that there wasn't any fraud in the counting, it was too late.

You're doing the conflating thing again. Riots are spontaneous acts; saying "so and so wasn't proven in court" comes after the fact.

left wing "news" media is 100% on board with propagandizing for the democrats. Literally no one trusts what they say, even the people that literally own them.

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