• PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    2 months ago

    I wouldn’t say giving Harris a 50.4 percent chance of winning is predicting her to win. That’s effectively a coin toss.

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      2 months ago

      yeah, I really hate seeing these types of articles during elections. some will skim past it and go “well, its cool. I don’t need to vote, she got it” and that kind of lazyness is how elections are lost.

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        2 months ago

        That’s the whole point. America’s plutocracy — who own most of the media — want a fascist dictatorship. They’ve been financing and amplifying Trump the entire time.

        What more could a capitalist want than no competition, low/zero taxes, and not having to worry about the risk that democracy represents to their wealth and power…