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I had a discussion with some friends about how impressive it is that Putin can do so many outrageous things and the world doesn’t stop him. Clear election fraud, assassinating foreigners, invading Crimea, etc. there are very few other countries that get free passes like Putin does.
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I mean it's possible that it could have happened, but I feel like if you're going to make claims like this, there's a pretty high threshold of evidence required.
That's kind of the point, though. There's approximately as much evidence for Russian election fraud as there was for the 2020 US election: that is to say, some numerical anomalies, and poll workers acting strangely, with a few unlikely coincidences, but nothing that reaches the bar of hard evidence. But the same people dismissing these claims in the US last year on the basis of "no evidence" are screaming positive af…
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He says 'they're throwing all the republican challengers out of this room' and a woman replies 'no they're not'. The man in the video isn't demanding anything like what the tweet describes. I have to think you're engaging in this in bad faith because you're using misleading tweets to guide the discussion.
I see what you mean. I misheard the beginning of the man's statement and understood that he was making the demand. I'm not sure why you'd assume bad faith, I just linked another video which was posted in the replies of the previous one.
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I mean it's possible that it could have happened, but I feel like if you're going to make claims like this, there's a pretty high threshold of evidence required.
That's kind of the point, though. There's approximately as much evidence for Russian election fraud as there was for the 2020 US election: that is to say, some numerical anomalies, and poll workers acting strangely, with a few unlikely coincidences, but nothing that reaches the bar of hard evidence. But the same people dismissing these claims in the US last year on the basis of "no evidence" are screaming positive af…
From the high score but low placement on the HN page, I’m guessing this is being heavily flagged.
This is also always interesting to see with submissions that are critical of CCP/PRC :) Though it's probably more obvious where the flags are coming from in those cases.
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Ya I just got home from voting and saw this. clicked it thinking it was Canadian. I wasn't joking, just trying to be informative. Then again seeing how heavily im downvoted. Guess I touched on a rough subject.
I think the US elections have left a pretty serious sore spot that's going to be a long time in healing. I suspect your comment was being read as sarcastically implying that the same thing was happening in Canada as well. Especially since (and correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't really kept up on Canadian politics) I've gotten the impression that the USA drama has crept north, or at least Canada is going through a som…
Liberals picked up 46.7% of the seats in parliament off 32.2% of the vote. Highly over represented.
Conservatives marginally won another election but won't form the government. They got 35% of the seats from 34% of the vote.
NDP got 7% of the seats off 17.7% of the vote. Highly under represented.
PPC got 0% of the seats off 6% of the vote. Highly under represented. Roughly a million Canadians are not represented in government.
Greens got 0.5% of the seats off 2.3% of the vote. Though their leader/campaign was poor.
There are some serious discrepancies in these numbers.
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That's kind of the point, though. There's approximately as much evidence for Russian election fraud as there was for the 2020 US election: that is to say, some numerical anomalies, and poll workers acting strangely, with a few unlikely coincidences, but nothing that reaches the bar of hard evidence. But the same people dismissing these claims in the US last year on the basis of "no evidence" are screaming positive af…
I didn’t see any credible videos of ballot boxes actually being stuffed in the 2020 US election.
This could be the last time we see these funny videos. In this elections they “defeated” all opposition candidates with electronic ballot. Before electronic ballot results, even with all election fraud you see on camera, 90% of opposition candidates were winning in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. Electronic ballot results were delayed by a few hours and when they released it turned out that opposition lost everywhere. T…