US friends:

I don't want to hear any of you ever say that African countries have corrupt elections again.

Ever!

You hear me? That's over for y'all now.

And this dude is still the GOP front runner! By a long shot! Like, it's not even close! A lot of y'all are like "This is fine!"

And I don't want to hear "Oh no! We're like a 3rd world country now!" That's that mess I often hear after the US has acted exactly like the US. We're not "like a 3rd world country." We're like ourselves.

@mekkaokereke But we don't have corrupt elections. That's the entire point of the prosecutions of Trump. The election was specifically NOT corrupt.

@slcw

1. What was the Brooks brothers riot? Were all ballots counted? Why not?

2. Has there ever been a national election where it was as easy for Black voters to vote, as it was for white voters? Why not?

3. Is the US somehow unique and exceptional in prosecuting corrupt former leaders? Or is this something that literally every democratic country with rule of law does, yes, even in Africa, but US people don't know this fact and just assume that our country must be better than everyone else?

@mekkaokereke @slcw

For instance, just a few days ago, former Austrian head of government, Sebastian Kurz, was charged with giving false evidence to a comittee of the Austrian parliament.
Kurz was the first Austrian chancellor ever to get ousted by parliament in 2019. Things are unprecedented until there aren't...

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/18/europe/sebastian-kurz-austria-false-evidence-intl/index.html