Progressive Politics

4150 readers

730 users here now

Welcome to Progressive Politics! A place for news updates and political discussion from a left perspective. Conservatives and centrists are welcome just try and keep it civil :)

(Sidebar still a work in progress post recommendations if you have them such as reading lists)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world

352

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk (newrepublic.com)

submitted 1 day ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

66 comments fedilink hide all child comments

If Donald Trump’s administration really wants to find evidence of foreign interference in Georgia’s elections, then they need look no further than the president’s old friend Elon Musk and his shady super PAC.

Members of the Georgia State Elections Board voted Wednesday to issue a formal letter of reprimand to Musk’s America PAC over the billionaire technocrat’s illegal scheme to get Trump elected. Georgia, a key battleground state in 2024, was the target of aggressive campaigning by Trump’s team.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Glad to see this doesn't get downvoted to oblivion on Lemmy at least. On Mastodon I have encountered quite some hostility on anything that could be seen as "blueanon".

Took some time for the topic to federate, there were 10s of thousands of ppl on the subreddit about this immediately after election day having a look on the numbers. But cool that it did.

I think the sub was "somethingiswrong2024" or so, if it still exists, haven't been on reddit lately.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

it was questioned heavily after the election, but reddit drowned out with trump gaffes in order to hide the truth.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

So, it's complicated. Trump and co absolutely would cheat, but there's no proof that they cheated in that exact election. However, Russia/Iran/China (but primarily Russia) has also been stoking division in the US for decades, very successfully in 2016 and 2020, as they worked with Trump/Bannon/Manafort to stoke the whole election denial thing. In 2024, this is also their MO to stoke election denial but in Democrats this time. So there are definitely outside influences to push this narrative.

A ton of those posts in "somethingiswrong2024" are so fishy and unhinged. I'm still sane, so it's weird to see so many crazies just blatantly call everything fake.

Having said ALL that, who knows what the actual truth is. All I ask is to understand that there are nefarious domestic (Bannon, Thiel, etc.) and foreign (Russia/Iran/China) forces to sow further division, and to use an ounce of critical thinking before going crazy and sharing unfounded information.

[–] thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh yeah, a lot of pure nonsense in there as well, gotta filter out the relevant bits.

And I do realise it's pretty hard to say especially from outside the USA whatever was going on as I don't ultimately know my way around the election system. So my point is basically that I wouldn't be too surprised if it turned out to be shady. Europe has now had its first cold shower moments with Trump II so what I hope is people stop parroting stuff like "It's a developed country, of course their elections are free&fair".