• Veraxus@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    John Stewart for POTUS.

    I don’t care if he doesn’t want it; that just makes him more suitable.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Sure I’d rather vote for someone with Bernie’s politics but that’s not on the table right now. I’ll happily vote for Biden over literal christo-fascism and the destruction of our democracy any fucking time.

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      7 months ago

      I’d rather vote for someone with Bernie’s politics but that’s not on the table right now

      And America’s oligarchs will ensure that it never will be

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          7 months ago

          When people we won’t vote against literal fascism because the alternative isn’t their ideal candidate then ya. Republicans have no reason to not choose a dictator as their candidate next time when the dictator this time has a legitimate chance of actually winning.

          What needs to happen is for the Republicans to lose so abysmally that they see this shit isn’t going to work and they restructure and kick out the crazies.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    7 months ago

    So there was just a burst of 11 upvotes for this story in 10 minutes, while during the same time period there were 3 downvotes.

    I wonder if the same ratio will continue during the next 10-minute window or going forward; my bet is that the ratio will more or less reverse (or more), with downvotes dominating over time. What would cause an unusual number of people to all upvote this story all at once, right after it was posted?

    Maybe I am wrong. Let’s see.

    Edit: I am wrong, I think. Beyond that fact that this post obviously isn’t being downvoted heavily now that it’s established, I spent a while looking at this question, and I found some things that maybe looked hinky, but nothing outwardly and obviously suspicious. And you can’t really tell anything from the behavior right after a post – it’s all noise. After about 30-60 minutes, enough votes have been accumulated that you can say something about it, but before then, all bets are off.