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A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.

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[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago

It seems to me that they have a deep misunderstanding of history, and that this door swings both ways, and they're pushing it hard the other way, and it's gonna swing back just as hard, or harder.

And maybe that's what they want, maybe they want some kind of revolution or some collapse of society, but if that's not what they want, then what are they doing?

I get that generally the regime isn't that bright, but why are conservatives of power and intelligence not pushing back? This seems rather predictable.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 87 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'd love for conservatives to be made to answer this question: if their ideas are so popular, so mainstream, and so many Americans hold these "common sense" positions (conservatives and their Murc's Law Media simps looooove to claim that most people identify as conservative, etc.), why do they have to lie, cheat and steal to maintain power at every fucking turn?

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

They don't actually care if they are popular, they just want power. Watch Mussolini: Son of the Century to see how they actually think.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s why they are calling it voter fraud. In their eyes anybody can just steal a ballot out of somebody’s mailbox and fill it out and send it in. And nobody would know. So because it’s possible, it means the democrats are doing it and that’s the only reason they win.

Keep in mind that even though Trump won in 2016 he said there was voter fraud that made it so he didn’t win the popular vote. They have been setting up this narrative for years if not decades.

Of course the republicans in power know exactly what they’re doing and why.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They don't believe it though. Only the particularly dumb sheep believe the democrats are cheating.

The ones making these arguments, their politicians, pr people, power brokers, business dickheads, they ALL know it's a lie and betrayal of the republic, not that ignorance is an excuse for a grown learned person betray America.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There’s a lot of dumb sheep though. A LOT. Living in the south I meet tons of people that will casually throw out “voter fraud” and “illegals voting” all the time. They know it happens. And whether it’s a significant amount or not, it needs to be stopped. And democrats are throwing interference cause it benefits them.

This is the argument. They don’t think it would change the results. Meanwhile, the politicians that are lying about voter fraud know that legitimate voters would be disenfranchised and that would change the results.

I’m not saying we should forgive them for being idiots. Just good to know who we’re fighting against.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, these are the ones that I want cornered and made to answer. The dumbasses that believe Faux is a real news channel are mostly too stupid to know better. I'm talking about the thought leaders.

[–] brookenium@feddit.online 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They genuinely believe they're identifying and defeating a mass fraud conspiracy. Fox News and worse have done a phenomenal job of building echo chambers that convince them the libs are a bunch of cheating charlatans and that's the only reason they have the popular vote.

Their worldview is completely wrapped around this and so anything to the contrary is ignored as evidence of the conspiracy.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

every accusation is an admission of guilt. its a rule at this point. if theyre claiming someone else is doing something you can go ahead and assume theyre doing it themselves.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There’s no gotcha moment for people that ignore reality.

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As a matter of fact having something upset their world view is catastrophic to their entire psyche, so they completely ignore reality, most especially when it stares them in the face. It's cult behavior through and through.

They're like the flat Earthers that actually try experiments that end up proving themselves wrong, yet they continue denying it afterwards

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They genuinely believe that “the other side” is doing it too, so if they don’t do it then they will lose and they will have failed the “majority”.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

This is exactly it. Everyone else is doing it so I might as well get mine. They can't imagine that someone would not take advantage when given the chance.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Answer; “It’s part of the game everyone is playing.”

[–] the_q@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our government will continue to do whatever it wants until the people act. Violence or stopping the flow of money, those are our only options and both require sacrifice that I fear most people aren't ready to for.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Too many people still feel they have too much to lose.

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is such a profound breach of civil liberties, I sure hope there's enough of the government left to stop this.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's on us.

Start asking local officials to arrange for volunteer ballot delivery and print-at-home

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about sending it in? I think online voting would be a better solution

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

Basically all the crazy computer security problems start affecting ballots. You really don't want to do this if it can possibly be avoided. Particularly not in the US where you don't have any kind of universal way to identify people online in any kind of reliable way.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Member when they were all “We’re breaking the sorting machines. Whoops! *crash*”

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fortunately they can't touch my vote by online.

[–] bunnybunny@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah nothing ever goes wrong online!

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good