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PeacefulProtester 7 points ago +7 / -0

So it's seditious, traitorous and an attempt at disenfranchisement to be concerned that two states (which even if they were both rejected wouldn't have been enough to give Trump a second term) didn't follow their own electoral laws like they're supposed to? I'm going to guess that wasn't the case back in 2005 when then-California Senator Barbara Boxer and then-Ohio Representative Stephanie Tubbs formally objected to Ohio's electors voting to re-elect George W. Bush on the grounds of voter irregularities.

I have no love for Bush, but don't be a dishonest partisan hack by pretending that objections to electors aren't a lawful part of the process.

Ultimately, no one's going to change their mind either way. Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Dick Durbin who are bitching now had no problem with their team's objection back in 2005. Republicans are more mixed though in that most who bitched back then are also still bitching now because they're losers stuck to principles and institutions fighting an enemy that doesn't care about principles or institutions, only power. The sooner more Republicans figure that out, or the sooner the old guard like McConnell and Romney are ousted, the better.

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PeacefulProtester 8 points ago +8 / -0

So if Biden or Harris get to replace Thomas and/or Alito, they'll be packing the court unless they appoint a conservative. For some reason I suspect the language will have evolved again by then to magically make that not court packing.

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PeacefulProtester 40 points ago +40 / -0

All Americans should want an investigation. Biden voters would welcome an investigation if they thought they had nothing to fear. It would be an opportunity to dunk on Trump voters and show absence of fraud. The fact that they are vehemently against an investigation shows they themselves know they cheated.

This is the key bit. If Biden's supporters and his media apparatchiks are so sure that he won the election, why wouldn't they want an audit and recount?

It wasn't that long ago that the media was cheerleading the whole "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" defense of the NSA's mass spying and data collection. I guess that's old hat now and doesn't apply to allegations of election fraud when your guy claims to have won.

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PeacefulProtester 7 points ago +7 / -0

I guess McDonald's didn't grovel hard enough about BLM and being a progressive burger company.

But I'd be willing to ban McDonald's jerk chicken sandwiches on condition that everyone who complained about it gets deported to Jamaica and everyone who has lineage from Jamaica go home with no possibility of return for either group. Deal?

No one's going to take that deal though because cultural appropriation and real jerk chicken isn't worth anything compared to the comforts and privileges that the west affords to everyone, including people that would burn it to the ground.

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PeacefulProtester 17 points ago +17 / -0

Anything that requires high intelligence is going to be almost entirely male at the upper echelons because the intelligence curve for males is flatter than the one for females. It's not all benefits for men though, because while most of the geniuses are men, most of the retards at the bottom are also men; women cluster around the average.

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PeacefulProtester 4 points ago +5 / -1

Gematsu is fairly no-nonsense gaming news with a focus on Japanese games (but it also covers western games too). It doesn't do reviews or opinion pieces or anything like that, just straight news.

Closest it gets to being regressive is some comments (though I've seen pushback on them too) and I think its owner, Sal, made some BLM post on Twitter or something. It didn't infect the sites news articles though - even the one reporting that Sony postponed its PS5 reveal because of BLM didn't take a side and just reported the reason Sony gave - like it has on all the major outlets.

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PeacefulProtester 3 points ago +3 / -0

Boris should've only been seen as a way to deliver Brexit, because there was no possibility of Farage becoming PM and none of the other Tories capable of delivering Brexit were also capable of being elected party leader (Rees-Mogg, Raab, Patel, etc.).

Everything else about Boris is very much hit and miss.

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PeacefulProtester 1 point ago +1 / -0

It wasn't my math that was wrong, but I did miss Nebraska's 2nd district. I had all of Nebraska counted for Trump along with Maine's 2nd district, but it looks like Biden won Nebraska's 2nd district to put them at 270-268 if none of PA, NC, GA, WI, MI, AZ or NV change from where they're at right now.

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PeacefulProtester 8 points ago +8 / -0

Could end up being 269-269 if Trump keeps PA, NC and GA and Biden gets WI, MI, AZ and NV. Because both camps would love more of a shitshow.