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[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you an absolute moron?

I'll bet $1 million that you voted for Hillary in the primary then gaslighted all of the Bernie supporters that were absolutely outraged after the convention.

β€œWe could have voluntarily decided that, β€˜Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.’”

  • Bruce Spiva, lawyer for the DNC
[–] gowan@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Considering your claim has already bern disproven mathematically I don't think you should be sitting in judgement of anyone's intelligence.

Spiva's comment is referencing the fact that traditionally the party did choose the candidate. This was the case until the 1950-60s depending on the party. There's no law requiring an open primary and parties can do as they wish. If you had any understanding of US political history this wouldn't have been a surprising quote but here you are.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

Mathematically? 🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣

How does math come into play when the party tallying the votes is literally allowed to cheat?
Al Franken disobeyed the will of his constituents as a superdelegate and voted against them. I could go on and on all day about my lived experience in 2016 and people EXACTLY like you, gaslighting me, telling me that my lived experience was false and I somehow misremembered it.

I am not even going to waste any further time on you, shitlib.