It seems like most humans honestly are not that interested at all in things like history, the value of community, involvement with others, social and emotional support, and are generally just selfish living-perpetually-in-the-moment idiots that willfully ignore the implications of anything they do and endlessly play the victim.
It's honestly a drag to realize how many of our species continue to be backwards knuckle dragging slack-jawed yokels who get positively furious when anyone calls them out on how absolutely fucking stupid they are. How dare you call them stupid and hurt their feelings! It's their right to be a an absolute fucking idiot and you're the one out of line for calling attention to it! They couldn't possibly try to not be a mendacious fucking moron! You're the person who is wrong for noticing!
Who'd have guessed that Musk's promise to "maximize free speech" was just a dogwhistle to allow the worst of society to say all the worst things with no pushback.
Oh yeah I guess everyone guessed that. None of these fucks cares about "free speech" they want "free speech without consequences specifically for me, but definitely consequences for the speech of people I don't like."
The most important aspect of this that I think most people are missing is that they are specifically trying to bias the public into thinking he definitely did it. There is no "allegedly" in how they've treated him, they are actually using the positive public sentiment about what he did to continue to build the idea that it was definitely him and we don't need to go to court to prove it. The public loving Mangione and believing he definitely did it is actually in many ways beneficial to their case. It helps solidify the idea in the general public eye that "he did it" before any court case has looked at the facts.
Remember ol' Khrushchev when he was ridin' high with that Sputnik satellite \
He told us yankee boys, he's gunna fill the skies with them shiny new satellites \
He said "Hey Mr. Eisenhower, watcha think of my Sputnik satellite?" \
Well, Ike reeled his head back \
Looked him in the eye, that's a mighty fine satellite.
But I'mma gonna get me one better, just you wait and see \
I'mma gonna get me one better, you can't get the best of me \
I'mma gonna get me one better, the baddest one around \
I'mma gonna get me one better, 'cause' I got the biggest balls in town.
Gaslight Obstruct Project is just too on the nose for Republicans.
Because this isn't just projection of their own violent tendencies it's literally trying to gaslight the public into believing that reality must be different than what they've seen, and they'll use the law to obstruct any investigation into proving that they are gaslighting the public.
Okay, well here are some facts that you can confirm with anyone else who has been involved in election administration that support my point:
I'm quoting OP to make a point here, and that point is they gave you an opportunity to validate the evidence they were presenting and not just take their word for it.
I have never worked in elections but have done enough research on elections to agree with the mod that these are indisputable facts. Elections are run at state and county levels and at each level you literally have security and cybersecurity teams that have to work with each other but were all hired by different groups: State, county, city. Due to this, processes will be different at each level and in each city/county/state. Similarly, each place will be sourcing their hardware from a different vendor, meaning it is highly implausible that somehow they all had the correct Tripp Lite devices in place in all the right districts and that the cybersecurity teams were either all grossly incompetent or somehow in on a grand conspiracy. Hell, I've had a government job for a short time, and even different agencies in the same government will be using different vendors than another agency. There is no overarching "you have to get your equipment from this specific vendor and no one else" more like "you can get your equipment from this large group of vendors who fit the specifications and requirements our city/county/state government has."
These are things you can research and verify. The mod isn't just asking you to their their word on it, they provide evidence and give you the opportunity to go verify that evidence for yourself. To go ask the people who run your local elections and find out. Not just trust the musings of some random asshat on the internet. Also the whole "elections are run at the state level" thing should be pretty common knowledge because that's basic civics.
I just came back to this thread because I wanted to say: thank you for this write up, you got a lot of details I neglected to mention. The most important of which is that elections are run at the state level and every state is going to have their own security and cybersecurity teams, and the assumptions made in this treat it like either every cybersecurity team in every state is grossly incompetent or the cybersecurity teams were somehow "in on it" and kept their mouths shut (not a skill most of the people in Trumps orbit seem to have) or that the Trump admin had been sitting on a massive zero-day exploit to be used at the right moment, through the right channels, with the right pieces of hardware installed in the right spots every place they needed them (once again, these people are not good about keeping quiet about such things). Which, to me, all three are so highly implausible it really makes no sense to make grand conspiracies in your own head about it all.
The Big Beautiful Bill is evidence enough alone of that. An absolutely horrific amount of cuts for programs that help people, ostensibly to "offset" the tax cuts for the rich, but it still balloons the deficit by $3.5 trillion.
There's a reason Trump is trying to pressure the Federal Reserve. The wealthy don't care if the dollar fails or goes into hyperinflation: they own assets which they can trade for currencies other than dollars. If the dollar spirals out of control for everyone else well "whoopsie doodles" they'll say.
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