Dawg, I never called you my comrade. I'd like to think that I have better taste in allies than associating with folks who will literally accuse me of spreading "election lies" when I state the clear and obvious fact that American elections are rigged for rich people. A fact that can in fact be proven, empirically, by a simple google search which will reveal many respected LIBERAL scholars saying the exact same thing I am in more flowery words.

We ain't comrades. Go fuck yourself.

Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

What in the World: A new report finds that an elite few dominate US policy, the human error behind South Korea's ferry tragedy, and Algeria's uneasy status quo election.

BBC News
What billionaires want: the secret influence of America’s 100 richest

A new study reveals how the wealthy engage in ‘stealth politics’: quietly advancing unpopular, inequality-exacerbating, highly conservative policies

The Guardian
The US has a ruling class – and Americans must stand up to it

In the year 2022, three multibillionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of American society – 160 million Americans. This is unsustainable

The Guardian
Republicans are rigging elections to win. They're anti-voter and anti-democracy.

Republicans are suppressing votes and trying to remake the electorate to win in states like Georgia and North Dakota. That's un-American.

USA TODAY

I could OBVIOUSLY keep going, for days if I wanted to.

Google "ALEC" and "The Federalist Society" and "The Clairmont Institute"

I'm just not gonna spend the next fifty days proving to you that water is in fact wet.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Not that I particularly want to make this sound like a conspiracy (it's very clearly true) but it's also worth noting that search engines getting actively worse (say, google) is a strict win for them in this.

If you can't trivially bring up historical cases that show things so incredibly obviously, people might entertain doubts. Does that mean google wanted this? Probably not, but does mean the regulators aren't in a rush to fix that problem, either.

@Oggie Absolutely. The same as the fact that it isn't just convenient that a chunk of Musks money to purchase Twitter came from countries whose leadership suffered as a result of the presence of a worldwide community town square.