#Election Interference

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You can be absolutely positive that Elon Musk, Donald Trump and other rightwing billionaires and authoritarian countries are employing these bot armies right now.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

The main thing I have taken away from the Trump era is the unprecedented media bias of the mainstream press. Before he was elected, I had never seen it so nakedly displayed before, and it made it impossible for me to take seriously any of their "reporting" on other matters.

At least for me, it was the death knell of corporate media. Now I see them as simply propaganda, which they may well have always been all along, but after the Trump presidency there could never be any doubt.

[reasonandempathy]

Tucker Carlson out at Fox News

Final show is tonight, April 21st, 2023.

I'll accept not having him testify if it means he's out from cable news. Still a good thing.

[ireton]

Canadian House of Commons - Kyle Seeback - Liberal government of Canada holds no one responsible for foreign interference.

Political Theatre / Drama.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Scott Scheffer

At a June 16 news conference after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden was asked about the phony accusations of Russian interference in U.S. elections. Incredibly, he responded by saying: “How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries, and everybody knew it?”

The fact is that hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been victims of violence, been imprisoned and/or lost family members because of U.S. interventions in their elections.

The United States is the most prodigious rigger of elections in the world by far. Most often, the “victors” in the rigged elections were dictatorial right-wing figures that used bloody repression to help keep massive profits flowing into the vaults of U.S. banks and corporations.

[porterdavis]

Paging Robert Mueller...

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[circleandsquarecomic]

Circle is a Student of History

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

Most of us already knew this but now it's out there for real

We need to defund and disband the FBI

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Fair?

Justice does not seem to be swift, let’s see if it is fair and impartial.

More Mo & Mo comics at disentangledweb.com

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Well, we’ll, well…not shy about it at all, is he..?

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Lucy Pagoada-Quesada

Twelve years have passed since the fateful 2009 coup in Honduras by the oligarchy, private companies and the leaders of the Catholic and evangelical churches. We cannot and should never forget that the coup was supported by the U.S. government, at that time headed by Democratic President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

This crime against humanity is responsible for the deepening of the crisis and social, economic, and political chaos in which Honduras has found itself ever since.

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I am fairly certain that the local election volunteers tried to supress my vote. There were 20 machines in the room, only 2 were in use, and the woman still took me over to a machine in the corner and said "this one has been acting up today."

Like... there are 17 other available machines. Why would you bring me to one you already know is not working well? For what purpose would you even risk a vote not being counted, especially if it wasn't busy???

When I cast my first vote for congressional rep, for the democratic candidate, the entire screen locked up and I couldn't select anything or progress or anything of the sort. I called someone over and two women came over. They looked at my vote and said "Is that your vote?" When I said yes, they pressed on the screen a bunch of times. They kept trying to select Republican candidates, and when the screen was finally responsive again, the selections on the first page were for all the Republican candidates, including Greg Abbott, and the screen moved to page 2.

They said it was fixed now and that they'd retire the machine when I was done. I said I was uncomfortable using the machine and wanted a new one, but they refused saying this one was fine. If it's fine, why are you retiring it after me?

I went and fixed the first page votes back to Beto O'Rourke and the other Dem candidates and in the end, it said my vote was submitted, but I have no way of knowing if that's true.

I'm not a person who tries to make myself a victim but I live in deep red south texas and I have blue/pink/purple hair and tattoos. If someone wanted to guess my voting patterns, I think they'd assume Democrat. Which is why it feels really off to me that the election volunteer took one look at me and assigned me to a broken machine when so many others were available.

I don't know. I'm not sure what to do, but I feel really uncomfortable about the accuracy of election results in Texas now. I know Greg Abbott is scared because of how much money he's pouring into political ads (I work in TV, so I see how many ads are being bought). But I would........ really hate to think that they were fixing the election by profiling people and sending them to machines that don't work.