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[ILisBest]

No surprise

 

[ILisBest]

 

[ILisBest]

 

[ILisBest]

 

[rillaman]

Stories like this have no impact on progressives. Men like Enes Kanter are the real problem.

 

[stoneaxe27]

No surprise

Only fools believe O'Keefe. He is a convicted fraudster. Even his pimp undercover film was staged.

 

[stoneaxe27]

That is an outrage! Who was the U.S. President in 2018?

 

[dtrain79]

Do you think that's actually why Bolsonaro is in jail? (He attempted something of a coup after losing to Lula, who in bemusing fashion had been imprisoned by Bolsonaro.)

How are you folks such suckers that you think the far right wing Twitter takes on USAid and South American elections are accurate? You are citing a story below the USAid spending in Brazil went up in 2019 when Bolsonaro was in power. Who was the President from 2019-early 2021?

The truth is, South America has moved right because the left is generally not very good at solving problems, and so voters down there are probably not impressed by it. The issue is that the populist right hasn't been very good at solving problems either (with some exceptions, as populist right wing parties tend to be better on some matters ala crime). Of course, some of the South American right wing governments aren't populists (Milei in Argentina is basically a libertarian nationalist, Chile has mostly been governed by a pretty reasonable right wing, and so on). That said, USAid or no USAid, the right-leaning governments will have to govern effectively to stay in power, so at some point the South American left will have a resurgence that has nothing to do with USAid.

I wish the best for our South American neighbors. I suspect their right wing governments will be better than the left wing ones, but that ultimately the death of USAid won't save them if the public finds their own governance lacking.

 

[dtrain79]

My problem when discussing election fraud and voter suppression (one an obsession of the right and the other the left) isn't that they've never happened but in the grand scheme, they are almost irrelevant. Yeah, I suspect that, out of 165M or so votes in 2024, we had a few thousand votes cast that shouldn't have been. And that wasn't enough to matter in a single state. The same goes for voter suppression, there are handfuls of voters here and there who run into some obstacle that causes them to miss an election/not vote/whatever. But it's very limited.

The system is generally well run and fair. There are lots of fraud checks because we largely require a separate voter registration (there are state exceptions to this, a few allow "day of" registration). I do think universal voter ID is a positive because it would reduce the limited chance of fraud even further, and increase confidence in the system. But it wouldn't change much at all in terms of the actual vote totals, which reflect the popular will in that election.

 

[Uncoach]

Yes. The “establishment” bootlickers complain about MAGA while the sellouts they love helped create the problems the US has with massive fraud, illegal immigration and giving the commies in the US a giant foothold. A great example is 43, who essentially said we needed to fight the war over there so it doesn’t come to the US, yet they brought in a bunch of Afghani’s and other ME “asylum seekers” to the US who have never been interested in becoming part of the American dream. Bush is a loser as are his fellow establishment mouth breathers. We’ve held our noses voting for these cons for decades. They can return the favor. What they are actually doing is trying to undermine the Republican vote just so they can say “See? We told you so about MAGA!” Total losers.

 

[dtrain79]

Yes. The “establishment” bootlickers complain about MAGA while the sellouts they love helped create the problems the US has with massive fraud, illegal immigration and giving the commies in the US a giant foothold. A great example is 43, who essentially said we needed to fight the war over there so it doesn’t come to the US, yet they brought in a bunch of Afghani’s and other ME “asylum seekers” to the US who have never been interested in becoming part of the American dream. Bush is a loser as are his fellow establishment mouth breathers. We’ve held our noses voting for these cons for decades. They can return the favor. What they are actually doing is trying to undermine the Republican vote just so they can say “See? We told you so about MAGA!” Total losers.

I'd never, ever, under any circumstances take instructions from the kind of political leaders you want to govern the country, and the number of people thinking like me is growing rapidly. The "Communists" you are now complaining about never existed when the "establishment" (which hasn't been the establishment for a decade plus now) was running the show, because their oxygen can only be given by the fringe right wing dominating the GOP (because the "Communists" would always lose to normal Republicans).

People like yourself need to feel the pain of your own awful decisions politically. It's coming. And it's not going to stop until reason prevails on the right. We'll see when that happens.

You are getting exactly what you deserve.