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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by archagon on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:42PM (#29555489)
As far as I’m concerned, “attempted coup” is a burned bridge that will never be rebuilt. I’m not a member of the Democratic party, but there is nothing the Republican party can do to make me ever vote for them in the future. I hope that the party withers and dies, and that any remaining sensible people go and form a new party.

Some offenses are simply unforgivable.

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by totony on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:55PM (#29562262)
I think "attempted coup" definition has already been discussed hell and back. It's a very disingenuous description of what happened. Also, it is very disingenuous to blacklist one of your only two parties because of what a (small) subset of their voters did.

N.B.: Not american

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by DarylZero on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:05AM (#29566908)
Trump tried to overturn the election result for _months_. It wasn't just one day and it certainly wasn't just "voters."

Even the people in the GOP who refused to back his coup attempt did not sever ties with Trump.

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by totony on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:25PM (#29571824)
Overthrowing a vote which was manipulated is not a coup. What Trump did is he challenged the rightfulness of the vote for months in court. That's a far cry from what you're describing.

Now, you may disagree (as the courts) that it was manipulated. Being wrong does not make what he did a coup.

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by archagon on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:31PM (#29573781)
https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1468989737490911232

If this doesn't look like some uncontrovertibly fascist shit to you, then we live in entirely different realities.

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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by totony on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @09:32PM (#29574151)
If you were president, and suspected vote manipulation/foreign influence on voting, what would you do?
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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by DarylZero on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:09AM (#29590153)
It's a classic modern coup, to tell lies about the election and discard it.
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Re:Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes by edmcnulty101 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:03PM (#29557708)
People aren't saying it was republicans. People are saying it was Trump and his people. The normal republicans weren't involved.
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