put all of your election posting here so it doesn’t bother anyone else!

from @CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net:

For Agitprop purposes, I’m asking comrades to help aggregate any and all effortpost responses, critiques, or general thoughts that you have seen or written pertaining to yesterday’s U.S. election that you think have standalone value for discussion either online or IRL.

I made a post for that purpose here, and ideally it can be used not only for general discussion, but as a reference for well thought out responses in discussions about the election to save all of us some brainpower.

No shitposts please, as we’d like to highlight some comrades’ actual effort in constructing responses or analysis, but humor is 100% welcome to help make your point!

  • buh [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    38·
    20 days ago

    Trump wins the popular vote but loses the electoral college. This one is cool because the political parties have to flip their programming overnight about the electoral college and we get to see new brainworms develop for how the American democracy was corrupted (how can it be corrupted if it was always an oligarchic dictatorship of capital?).

    I would so badly like to see this. tbh until this election, I didn’t realize how much of a bugbear maintaining the electoral college was for chuds (I knew about Trump losing the popular vote in 2016 but didn’t think republicans thought about it that much) and it was funny seeing people who ostensibly hate “government red tape” suddenly inventing the flimsiest, most tenuous reasons for why we need to keep doing this convoluted bullcrap. “rUsSiA DoEsN’T HaVe aN ElEcToRaL CoLlEgE SyStEm aNd iT’S A DiCtAtOrShIp” yeah I think there’s more to their problems than that lol

    • Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      25·
      20 days ago

      It would be incredibly funny if the right-wing immigration into Texas and Florida shifted the electoral college towards Democrat’s favor.

      Other funny possibilities: Harris wins two turns, Thomas, Alito and Roberts retire or die from the supreme court, and the Democrats secure a durable supermajority on the court. Republicans proceed to have a meltdown about how we need to reform all these shitty, undemocratic systems. Democrats already worship institutions, so it’s easy to imagine Lin Manuel Miranda writing bars about the wisdom of the founding fathers.