Every election cycle there’s a virus to fear. Swine flu, bird flu, Zika, covid19 etc. They only show police brutality on the news during election years to scare blacks and Hispanics into voting democrat. But this year they went overboard. This began the backlash.

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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's not that they went overboard. They wanted to keep people in their homes to increase postal voting. The tactics changed this year because they wanted to do some South American style vote dumps in the night.

[–]TheLord 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I looked it up and this is objectively false.

First something like "this" (referring to Covid) hasn't happened in like 100 years in the US. Second "this" was preventable if the government you think "this" would be working against had taken some kind of action, so it is self inflicted. Last, it's not even true. 2019 when "this" started was not election year. For the sake of argument we'll count it anyway. Zika was 2016, but did not have any kind of major affect on the US and was irrelevant to their elections. The last major outbreak of swine flu happened in 2009, the year after an election year, an off year even for down-ballot elections. Bird flu outbreak was in 2005. Again, not only not an election year, but the year after a major election, and an off year even for non-major elections. The very first detection of bird flu in humans occurred in 1997, AGAIN the year after a major election and an off year even for smaller elections. Other years there have been outbreaks of bird or swine flu: 2003, 2014. Viruses you didn't mention, SARS, early 2003, not an election year. Ebola 2014, no major elections in any of those years. You are just wrong.