It's probably time for a new one of these.
NE-2 went to Biden so a tie is unlikely unless he loses NV so stop posting about that.
Other admins, please replace this when there is a result. I'm going to bed.
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And it won't be open again until every single one of your lib VOTES is counted!
The 🇱🇷 2020 🇱🇷 American 🇱🇷 Presidential 🇱🇷 Elections 🇱🇷 are the single most important political event since The Last Fascist was VOTED 🔫 OUT 🔫. We on the admin team see it as our duty to enforce the views of our audience by any parasocial means necessary.
As a nacho-socialist cabal, we see no path to revolution other than by focusing the majority of our leisure time on consuming bougie media. Media that is obsessed with the details of an election we decided our preferences on months ago, if not years ago. Here's the bottom line: Voting makes you a good person and not voting makes you a bad one. Don't believe us? Just ask Lenin:
A democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism, and, therefore, once capital has gained possession of this very best shell (through the Palchinskys, Chernovs, Tseretelis and Co.), it establishes its power so securely, so firmly, that no change of persons, institutions or parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic can shake it.
We must also note that Engels is most explicit in calling universal suffrage as well an instrument of bourgeois rule. Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously taking account of the long experience of German Social-Democracy, is "the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the present-day state."
See? We can't let capital take control of this "very best shell"! Turtles belong to the people! And the way we do that is by voting for posts.
Link to Megathread Part 1 and the rest of ScreamoBMO's incredible manifesto
But remember comrades ABP, always be posting! All power to all the people! :chavez-salute:
Post links to election night feeds you'll be watching so I can feature them.
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National Election Results
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Harris's background in the "criminal justice" system/prison industrial complex almost certainly hurt Biden's chances of winning compared to other options, e.g. Liz Warren. Biden's crime bill might have been memory-holed for the people actually old enough to remember it, but US-Americans saw the aftermath of Harris's disastrous prison labor policy in real time when California was on fire this summer. The Harris pick signaled that the Biden campaign wanted to double down on Biden's Blue Lives Matter/"tough on crime" position in a year that saw the BLM movement explode after almost 4 years of dormancy under Trump; it signaled that the Dems' idea of racial justice begins and ends with the tokenist approach ("putting Black/female faces in high places"), communicating nothing less than absolute contempt for Black working-class people who were already suffering and who were paying close attention during the primaries.