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@PapaPole
Between historical data of how demographics in your district voted and various data collected from your online activity, it's not that hard to make a good educated guess.

And that's not even taking into consideration how easily it would be to spy on you if you vote in person, or to tamper with your correspondence if you vote by mail.

And yes, there's gonna be A LOT of the lowest level of spineless cowards.

@Flatulenator
Yeah... the reason the things that happen in USA terrify me, is because eventually EVERYTHING (especially the bad things) trickle down throughout all of Europe.

@thor
If it's competing with your previous screen, over the same amount of attention real estate, and directing some of that attention towards reading something useful, or at least not toxic, I'd take that as a win.

@alyx @alyx Give a politician in parliament bird flu. We will then unfortunately have to put them all down.

@Jens_Rasmussen
Yup. But I'm using this as a bit of an allegory. I hope to make people understand that sometimes you can't fix a broken system, and you need to start from scratch.

@LukeAlmighty
We call those viruses. Not all RNA strands are viruses, of course.

Let's say you have a farm, and you raise some chickens.

You discover that one of the chickens is infected to the core with a disease. A theoretically curable disease if caught early. But this particular chicken is in late stage of the disease.

Do you still try to cure it, even though keeping it around poses a risk to you and the other chickens; or do you count your losses, kill it and burn the corpse?

@jeff
I saw the signs. Their speeches, their reluctance of allowing vote auditing... I've seen that too many times in my country already. I know it, I recognize it. All the double speak, all the lies... Before the Twitter files came, I had already warned that USA is at risk of losing it's democracy. To me, these revelations proved that I was too late in my warnings.

Remember when Trump won in 2016, even though every god damned poll said he wouldn't?

Remember the conclusion that came out on why every poll got it wrong? People figured it was because many people were simply too scared to answer honestly that they would vote Trump.

A simple anonymous poll, conducted by complete strangers with no inherent power (political or otherwise) and people were too scared to answer honestly.

How long before people will be too scared to vote honestly? Remember, unlike a polling company, the ones counting your vote do have political power. And the "shadow government" has proven that it is not afraid to wield that power to suit their preferences.

There's a saying here: he who today steals an egg, tomorrow steals an ox.

Today the FBI censored people and information critical to at least 1 election.

What will they steal tomorrow?

America has had problems with their elections for some time.

An informed vote is critical for a democracy, and for much too long a lot of people have voted out of complete and utter ignorance.

At least you can argue that this political ignorance is not just an issue for USA, it exists to some proportion everywhere.

But what the FBI and the news media has done these years, is the straw that broke the camel's back. It's no longer an issue of an ignorant vote, it's an issue of a blatantly and purposefully misinformed vote, orchestrated by people who would directly politically profit from the outcome of this directed vote.

You can't ignore this. You can't call the voting process intact and trustworthy after these revelations. What USA has experienced is exactly what was being done all the time in the soviet block. It's what even Putin did with his opponents. Block, censor, arrest those who talk against you, and use the propaganda machine to praise your leadership, even when you drive the country straight into disrepair. That's how you act as an authoritarian.

That's how you destroy democracy.

@lottev
To be honest, I don't know and I don't care much about people's sex stuff.

@dave
Votes no longer hold any value when you are no longer informed.

When you vote, you consent to who you want to rule over you. If you're denied critical information about one candidate, and you're given blatant false information about that other candidate, you can no longer talk about informed consent.

It's a sham vote. It's fake. Your democracy is no more legitimate than North Korea's. Your entire populace has been subjected to the very same propaganda and misinformation of every other soviet state.

Stop living in denial. Accept this fact, so that you can actually fight against it.

@dave
Nope. Not when you have the FBI playing political favorites and directing social media to censor stuff. That's not a democracy anymore. Learn from ex-communist soviet countries. We used to have "elections" during Ceaușescu's days. Nobody in their right mind would have said we were a democracy, or would have thought they could vote against Ceaușescu without the secret services coming after them.

@dave
I'm more concerned over the fact that America is no longer a democratic republic.

@Shadowbroker2135 @grey
No. There is evidence that Shoe0nhead had the Boxxy look before Boxxy became a meme.

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