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[–]chottohen 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Machine designed Election Results — the question is: by whom?

[–]ActuallyNot 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Not by the Dems. They would have given themselves the house.

Possibly the the GOP, but if they don't take the senate, that would strike them out as the manufacturers. Time will tell I guess.

The reality is that if they don't especially favour either side, it's likely that they're not manufactured.

[–]Alienhunter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't think they are manufactured results in the sense that the votes are fake, I do think we are increasingly reaching a point where data analytics on elections allow both parties to manufacture carefully constructed platforms and campaign advertising to hit their target audiences and further results towards a near 50/50 split.

Each election gives more data and each time it happens they'll learn a bit better how to target voters and last minute results for their side. Elections are essentially becoming a kind of business and I think you'll just see more and more decided by razor thin margins and no clear mandates as the parties adopt whatever positions they think will help grab them the sliver of uncast votes needed in a winner takes all system.

You could say the elections are manufactured because a lot of the discourse isn't really organic. It starts at the grassroots level but it quickly gets sanitized and packaged for partisan consumption once the political machines get to it.

[–]ActuallyNot 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah. Yeah okay.

[–]Feldheld 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Fraud is only one aspect. The other major aspect is the fact that the republican party in large parts poses no real opposition to the great evil of our time. They show now balls and no brains. Wherever they do, like in Florida, theyre overwhelmingly successful. So many GOP candidates are cluless spinless weasels who kowtow before the media because they lack any moral or intellectual skill.

[–]ActuallyNot 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The other major aspect is the fact that the republican party in large parts poses no real opposition to the great evil of our time.

Who's that? Trump?

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

Isn't this forum in particular characterized by a large group of people who refuse to personally and directly acknowledge the legitimacy of the current U.S. government? Isn't that pretty much just a contingency that every single politician should have to meet?

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

To think this just now started....

It's pretty obviously that large urban counties, frequently battle ground states, have been manipulating voting counting for decades. Their rules and procedures are built specifically to enable this.

The reality is that, more so then those well established and nationally coordinated efforts held in the hands of one party for decades, the reset of the election results are a sign of voter sentiment.

Unfortunately, voter sentiment near-fully controlled by corporate media and what sentiments they desire to coordinate together and push, rabidly silencing any alternative with vicious collective attack and censorship using every trick a large cabal of aligned gatekeepers of information and communication has available.

Yet, this midterm election showed that the public, despite having every available source of information and communications controlled and manipulated, where so negatively impacted personally, that a large portion rejected their programming.

This was no normal new administration midterm sentiment flip. This was a huge message by the public, that despite controlling the minds of most voters like puppets and stuffing ballots on the regular, they've still taken a huge beating. Even the sure bets were razor thin wins at best.

After the failure to control the 2016 election, with the help of bad exit polling data, the nation massively rolled out electronic voting and ballot tabulation, entering the era of Diebold-Dominion without reserve.

The corporate media techniques to control the masses massively improved through the large increase in effectiveness of weaponized of messaging with AI, the mega-phone effect of their monopoly of information/communications control's growing output count, and winning the long fought battle streamlining of control over Internet communications and social media through co-opting and embedding in their moderation processes and large campaigns to control ideas of what should be censored, along with convincing that censorship online was no longer a bad thing, but instead required.

Additionally, the corporate media powerhouse had usurped the remaining hold-out media through mergers, lawsuit pressure campaigns, and a gish gallop of criminal accusations, using the help of their ever increasing influences to the legal system as a whole. They have achieving a singular voice like never before. Media fascism controls elections.

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

Obviously didn't pay attention to 2020 shenanigans.