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Old 11-11-2020, 06:59 AM #2551
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Why does the US have such difficulty separating socialism from communism? The rest of the western world seems to have managed to do it.
Exactly! People should be afraid of communism, but socialism? Nah mate. If I had to label myself I'd say "old school liberal, but with environmentalism overriding anything when there's conflict" but socialism is better than a lot of the other alternatives out there!

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No surprise there. I have no doubt that both candidates got some fraudulant votes from individuals, like someone voting on behalf of a dead relative or crossing state lines to vote twice etc, but fraud at the level Trump seems to think ...

If there really was that level of "Deep State" meddling going on, it would either be too well hidden for Trump's investigations to uncover, or the Republicans would have been involved so they can get rid of him and remodel their party out of their shadow.

I don't think it's likely at all, but at the same time I wouldn't be surprised either, I have a rather low opinion of most politicians and political systems
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Exactly! People should be afraid of communism, but socialism? Nah mate. If I had to label myself I'd say "old school liberal, but with environmentalism overriding anything when there's conflict" but socialism is better than a lot of the other alternatives out there!


No surprise there. I have no doubt that both candidates got some fraudulant votes from individuals, like someone voting on behalf of a dead relative or crossing state lines to vote twice etc, but fraud at the level Trump seems to think ...

If there really was that level of "Deep State" meddling going on, it would either be too well hidden for Trump's investigations to uncover, or the Republicans would have been involved so they can get rid of him and remodel their party out of their shadow.

I don't think it's likely at all, but at the same time I wouldn't be surprised either, I have a rather low opinion of most politicians and political systems

Exactly, some level of dubious voting is present in every election but it's a non-partisan issues (there will be a few questionable votes for any candidate) so they cancel each other out, and also it's statistically around 0.03% of votes or less so would only make a difference in an EXTREMELY close vote (a margin of a few hundred votes).

Elections can be overturned on recount as we saw with Gore/Bush... but that was because a large state with a lot of electoral votes came down to a razor thin margin. It's just not going to happen when the voting margins are tens of thousands of votes, and they would need to overturn multiple states.
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the GoP are more right wing now than they have ever been, so anything more left wing than Mussolini will be considered communist by them
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the GoP are more right wing now than they have ever been, so anything more left wing than Mussolini will be considered communist by them

Same as here.
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Honestly, anyone who is even entertaining Trump's bull**** is in direct opposition to democracy.
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As nerve wrecking election night was, with all the mail in votes, it’s honestly not going to end up being close in the end. No recounts is changing that. A comprehensive win for Biden and a defeat to Trump’s politics of fear.
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Whether he likes it or not it's all over and he's lost ,so he needs to take the L and accept that Biden beat him fair and square . I'm sick and tired of orange face whining .

Funny thing is even with recounts and other votes coming in ,Biden was way ahead in the numbers .
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Has any state certified their result yet?
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Georgia is having an Official recount.
(ref: Politics Live BBC2HD)

Even if Trump Wins that one
Biden is still the whole of the USA winner.

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Georgia is having an Official recount.
(ref: Politics Live BBC2HD)

Even if Trump Wins that one
Biden is still the whole of the USA winner.
I've not been following, so if there's any reason for a recount, then fair enough. If it stays with Biden, I hope Trump gets the message and concedes.

But if it goes to Trump, it'll energise to him to keep plugging, and this crap will be dragged on for ages...
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I've not been following, so if there's any reason for a recount, then fair enough. If it stays with Biden, I hope Trump gets the message and concedes.

But if it goes to Trump, it'll energise to him to keep plugging, and this crap will be dragged on for ages...


Yes Georgia was close
and the recount is legal.

But it still will not get him the 4million votes
more he would need to win?


279 Biden

217 Trump


[After 47 of 50 states]

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Nov 20th Friday
is the day the recount
should end in Georgia.

CNN HD reports Biden still has a 14,000 lead.
at this time.
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Russian bots are working overtime on facebook, the amount of obvious bait about Biden being shared by people I know is gross. People are so gullible.
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Several networks have now called the outstanding states

Biden flips Arizona and Georgia, Trump holds on in North Carolina. Final tally is 306-232
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Several networks have now called the outstanding states

Biden flips Arizona and Georgia, Trump holds on in North Carolina. Final tally is 306-232
Good one.
That's a convincing win in the end.
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Trump to speak soon. All day he's been tweeting tin foil hat conspiracy theories.
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Russian bots are working overtime on facebook, the amount of obvious bait about Biden being shared by people I know is gross. People are so gullible.
The bot activity on Twitter on election night was utterly BIZARRE. Like the comments didn't even make sense. One that I saw hundreds of involved people from hardcore Trump states claiming that because Trump had lost they were... moving to Canada... .

I think my favourite was the one I saw hundreds of copies of where they were so upset with the "stupid children" for "voting out Trump who was here to save us"... they were going to "move their family to Hawaii where they know how to run a country properly".

I mean ... not only is Hawaii a US state - but it's a US state that has resoundingly voted Democrat . ... for over 50 years. Mind blowing stuff.

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It's staggering he hasn't yet conceded.

World leaders are congratulating Biden.
It's clear Trump nor anyone else has the slightest evidence of any kind of fraud.

The figures just keep moving further away from Trump.

Yet he and the Republican party itself are still withholding being more gracious losers.

Excellent result in this election in my view, even much more so than I was thinking probable.
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It's staggering he hasn't yet conceded.

World leaders are congratulating Biden.
It's clear Trump nor anyone else has the slightest evidence of any kind of fraud.

The figures just keep moving further away from Trump.

Yet he and the Republican party itself are still withholding being more gracious losers.

Excellent result in this election in my view, even much more so than I was thinking probable.
because he still believes it's fraud

wouldn't be surprised if he demands another recount
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