2026-02-05 17:27 UTC
@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".
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@dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt 2026-02-05 18:10
@ricardoharvin@mstdn.social @dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org We had exactly this discourse after 2016. https://circle.lt/post/20200403-money-for-people-with-minds-that-hate/ "Clinton received 3 million more votes than Trump, and lost the electoral college 0.23% in Michigan, 0.77% in Wisconsin, and 0.72% in Pennsylvania. Jill Stein pulled away more votes than that in each of these three states. The Comey letter has cost Clinton around 1% in the polls … voter suppression and the Russian troll farms … Take any one of these four factors away and Clinton likely would have won."