Refusing to concede and trying to overturn the election result isn’t just limited to Donald Trump anymore. This past week makes clear it’s now the playbook for every right-wing politician who loses an election.

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    Voters have shown they don’t punish candidates for election denialism. So there is no political cost to denying elections. The reason that doing that used to be taboo is that candidates thought appearing like a sore loser would turn off voters for future elections.

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      Every country allowed criminals and thieves to create and consolidate their own propaganda machines that have weaponised the media and radicalised their populations for profit.

      A core statistic in Americas downfall was that Fox News was the most popular cable “news” network for the majority of the last 3 decades, and frequently the most widely shared source on social media. We’re talking tens of millions of people — primarily boomers and gen x — indoctrinated with disinformation to the point they develop mental illness and narcissism.

      The mental illness is spreading globally because of the continued consolidation of these propaganda bubbles, with the help of highly individualised targeting made possible by social media and data captured by surveillance capitalism.

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    Elections are becoming a meaningless argument in America

    The right argue about election details and deny losing

    The left argue about the election that no one won

    The people argue about elections they have no power or control over

    The rich watch everyone fight as they take all the money and power

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        The only power people have is through their collective participation in the financial system. If everyone organized and just withheld all or most of their money from the system … then you’d get government to listen.

        But trying to organize a ragtag mass of millions of people that can’t agree on the simplest things is like trying to suck water through a rock.

        One of the best ideas I’ve ever heard is to organize everyone to just boycott one single company … any company … like Best Buy or Target … just one company and everyone participate and just run the company into the ground, everyone just ostracize and completely ignore it until it loses everything … everyone could keep going about their business, except do it anywhere else but that one company … it wouldn’t affect people much because there are plenty of stores out there. Do this for a few months and that one company would completely go under. Once everyone completely destroys one company, then move on to the next and keep hounding companies like this one by one. Do it for grocers, for electronics stores, for phone companies, for internet companies, for department stores, for banks, for gas stations … just keep dropping them one by one. Then you’d get these companies … and by extension the government … to listen to the people.

        No one cares about your voice, your concerns or your beliefs … but they do care about your money and where it goes or where it stays … that’s where your political control lies.

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          That’s it, and that’s not a bad idea by the way to carry it out, because it sidesteps the ‘hardship’ problem.

          It’s one of only two solutions; a shutdown which stops production.

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        The only solution is mass conversion of O2 into O3. O3 is the cure, since it’s premium oxygen, and is perfect for neutralizing all evil.

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        I’ve got three good options for you!

        suck the dick of someone who’s very okay with choking you to death for their own pleasure, until they do and you do and they cum so hard. so hard. that could be pretty hot.

        die a slave, worked to death, your entire life stolen for stupid probably-evil bullshit destroying the only world your children could have had. let them inherit your funkopops and photos of vacations with now-extinct species, if you got to rake those. that feels stable, until its not. you never have to be responsible for anything, just follow orders and be what you’ve always been. nobody could have seen the consequences of your actions that will ultimately kill you coming. nobody’s at fault, really. unless you listen to those anticapitalist criminals.

        some scary risky shit, the risk that you could win, could have to make your own decisions, could have to be genuinely responsible for something that happened, have to grow and change and figure out new ways to be. you may have to forge your own morality, and revise it constantly if you survive. you may live into old age. you may get to meet your grandchildren. they might be jerks. there are a lot of risks with this one. maybe best avoided.