Soatok Dreamseeker4d ago

The "2024 election was stolen" conspiracy theories are just a rehash of the "2020 election was stolen" conspiracy theories and this is both sad and frustrating.

People choose to believe these narratives because they validate feelings and beliefs about how unfair the outcome of the election is; because they are profoundly ignorant of how the elections are conducted, secured, and validated; because it's easier than looking at America for what it really is.

If you see these kind of posts and can't help but notice the presentation style has a certain "FOX News" aesthetic, yeah, that's kind of deliberate.

Show threadYza3d ago
@soatok I actually don't know if the 2024 election being stolen is so far-fetched. we already know that trying to rig elections is a longstanding practice in america, from the successful ones like gerrymandering to the unsuccessful january 8th insurrection. we also know that trump and his team have actively tried to rig elections. I find it entirely plausible they managed to cheat some votes somewhere without it being found out
Show threadYza3d ago
@soatok all of this can coexist with the understanding that trump really does embody the us. he's arguably the most wildly successful american politician in decades, despite being terrible at his job. trump's success reveals the corruption and fragility of the american political system (remember all those checks and balances that turned out to amount to little more than wishful thinking?) as well as the american hunger for bigotry and fascism
Show threadYza3d ago
@soatok it also reveals the abject failure of the "reasonable" "moderate" republicans to stand by their alleged principles. it reveals the abject failure of the democrats for allowing this to come about in the first place then failing to shore up the guardrails when they got back in power to prevent a repeat of everything. not to mention their absolute unwillingness to meet the moment and stand for anything other than being the lesser evil
Show threadYza

@soatok we saw how the dems respected the american people so little that they were unwilling to even pretend they'd stop supplying a genocide for the sake of winning power against an open fascist. the dems have laid bare how eagerly they'd follow republicans to the right

all of this to say that america is fundamentally broken. whether or not the election was stolen, the entire system is bent towards violent fascism. all aspects need to be addressed

Apr 5 at 10:56pmWeb