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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Oooh… Look at that. Still didn’t meet the bare minimum to discuss further.

    I’m gonna make a prediction, you aren’t going to to go look up the results of the 2016 primary and post them here, on your next post. If you don’t, then it’s a pretty blatant admission that you have no interest in actually discussing efficacy of shifting party position by using the primary process, and instead you’d rather throw out ad-hominem attacks and bitch about the results of a primary that, statistically speaking, you probably didn’t even bother to vote in.






  • The argument before the court was that legally the DNC could select their own candidate, not that it did. So it woudn’t matter if the allegations were true or not.

    The other side argued that since the case went to court, the facts of the case must be “true enough to be heard.” Which is a pretty low standard to clear TBH.

    “Well we argued it in court, so it must be true enough to be heard.” The standard governing the motion to dismiss requires the Court to accept all well-pled allegations as true for purposes of deciding the motion. Thus, the Court recited the allegations of the Complaint that it was required to accept as true, and in so doing, acknowledged that the allegations were well pled.

    Which may technically true, but does not mean that the DNC prevented Bernie from being their candidate.

    Did the DNC select their own candidate? Or did they go with the candidate that their voters selected?

    Because by the numbers, Bernie was short by a few million votes.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

    I’m sure that if he had won the primary, then the DNC would have backed him against the wishes of their establishment supporting members, doubly so in light of recent events regarding the NYC mayoral race.





  • It’s really amazing that out of the many people who want to talk about how Bernie should have won the 2016 primary, none of them are willing to post the results, where he lost by a significant number of votes.

    It’s almost like they think the less popular candidate should have been democratically selected.

    Show me an election where the less popular candidate won, and I’ll agree with you that it’s totally bullshit, and the system was rigged, and needs to be reworked.

    I’m always open to discuss further, but you will need to confirm that you know the results of the 2016 DNC primary.


  • It’s not a double check at the polling station. They simply need to confirm that you showed up and voted today, and have a way to ID you. The actual check, that you are legally allowed to vote, and that you are actually who you say you are, and that you aren’t allowed to vote anywhere else, all happened when you register to vote. That is a long process, and that’s why it is done before you actually need to go vote.

    Every difficulty you build to try to make harder for your enemy voters to cast their vote is a difficulty you set up also for your voters.

    Elections are run by the individual states (unless something egregiously unconstitutional is going on) which allows the governor and even local election officials to make decisions that affect how hard it is to vote almost down to a street level basis. If you don’t want people from blue areas to vote, you just put in fewer polling stations, and make them in less convenient places for areas that skew blue on the map. So adding 30 seconds to the voting time doesn’t really matter for a rural station that might need to service 100 people in a day, but for an inner city location that might need to service 100 people a minute those 30 seconds per person really add up.