2026-02-05 08:46 UTC
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@bjb@fosstodon.org 2026-02-05 13:34
@ricardoharvin@mstdn.social @dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt An election with only one allowed outcome is not an election. This "election" is performative, to make people think they can still vote so they will accept all these measures. If they get away with it, it will be the last one. This performative election is the last faint chance to object to fascism, that is why they are spending so much - to render any opposition to the current administration ineffective so that resistance will fail.
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@ricardoharvin@mstdn.social 2026-02-05 16:01
@dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt *Ultimately*, they do not care because they mean to render all results moot, truth!
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@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-02-05 17:27
@dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt @ricardoharvin@mstdn.social If they only use one tactic to undermine the whole election, then people can point to it and say "see, if they hadn't done *that* then the election would have gone differently". If they try ten different things, where no individual one on its own is sufficient to change the outcome, but any six would be - then any time discussion focuses on one tactic, they can deflect by saying "oh come now, any effect from that was too small to change the outcome anyway, get over it".