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naraburns  nihil supernum  6mo ago (text post)   28020 thread views

U.S. Election (Day?) 2024 Megathread

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Might be interesting to see how Democrats square the circle of "Trump is a fascist who will end American democracy if elected, but we are going to concede peacefully to him now".

I assume it's going to be by the standard method of just ignoring it and pretending there is no contradiction.

Biden congratulated Trump and invited him to the White House:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-congratulates-trump-phone-call-invites-meeting-white-house/story?id=115560662

This happened hours before Kamala Harris concession speech. Which is starting right now in this second:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0ASIeYMfh14

Boy would I love to see some accountability from the people who insisted there was no way Trump would be allowed to win the election.

I think that would make for a good top-level post in the main thread. All this definitely may be a good reason for some people to, as the rationalists like to say, update their priors. On a more subtle level, the Trump presidency is going to be an interesting test for Curtis Yarvin's idea that even if a right-winger gets elected, he will not be able to significantly change things. But one thing is for sure, Trump did just win. He did not die at the last minute to a mysterious accident, and apparently there were no container trucks full of Harris votes showing up at the last minute to give Harris the election.

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