It's not good, or healthy, or Christmas come early to see a big chunk of Congress decide to participate in the 2021 version of birtherism. But let's not treat a cynical political performance as a bona fide attempt to steal an election. That's offensive to real election stealers!
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You're making the presumption that this isn't giving the militia types who've dreamed of civil war and overturning the rule by hippies and the NWO some real juice to try and push their agenda. When enough of a nation believes something, it changes history.
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I think in that sense it is quite terrible, and the incitement to political violence (whether overt like Trump, or implicit) is real and inexcusable
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That is exactly the point of what's going on: it's playing to the audience to set them up for radicalization. Whether that's electoral, intimidation of Democrats, terrorism, or whatever-the-frick-else, that's what's happening. obvs a true coup wound't happen w/o mil support.
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Anyone who’s seen a fight break out at a bar is familiar with this dynamic: this is the part where the drunk guy keeps escalating until he’s convinced himself that it’s time to throw a punch.
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Except the "drunk guy" controls the presidency, the Senate, SCOTUS is 6-3, majority of just-elected representatives are signing on to "stolen election" and whatever silent dissent there is within GOP is for mind-readers mostly.
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I'll sign on to the coup if they promise to ban people from saying "SCOTUS"
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jonathan Oosting
I'll spell it out if you can tell me how all this is just political theater, just like every other election.https://twitter.com/jonathanoosting/status/1337505338124333057 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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It's performative considering you and I and the Republican politicians and everyone else understands that it is not going to affect Monday's Electoral College vote, or the acceptance of that vote by the new Congress, or the subsequent peaceful transfer of power in January
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So, it’s all performative until the coup is successful.
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s/coup/election/
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Tell what it would take for you to say that the Republicans are really trying to steal the election. You claim that "the Post Office hiding ballots" is a "scary ghost story" when in fact absent a public outcry and a federal judge's orders, that would have changed the outcome.
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