The 2000 election in a nutshell

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• theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean Gore did win.

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• arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  well, the people did vote for the Democratic successor. and then the Republican-controlled Supreme Court butted in and said “actually you’re not allowed to check the results of how the people voted, we declare our guy won”

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  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    While the 2000 election was undeniably stolen, it’s kinda hard to argue the people voted for Gore. The reason the Supreme Court was able to declare Bush the winner was because the election was close enough to be decided by a single state. Gore only ended up receiving like 50k votes total more than Bush. The meme is still accurate and Americans are still generally idiots.

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    • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, by your very own definition, people DID vote for Gore. It wouldn’t have been an overwhelming victory by any means, but they did indeed vote for him

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But Gore was boring! And Dubya was entertaining!

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  • Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “I could see myself having a beer with this guy!”

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why settle for a campfire, when you could have a wildfire?

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We never would’ve gotten the shoe “terrorist” with Gore

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• JamieDub86@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How many countries could or does this apply to?

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  • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How many countries have a Republican party?

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    • JamieDub86@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have no idea.

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    • MohamedMoney@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Many

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m guessing a high percentage.

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  500,000 more people voted for Al Gore.

  It didn’t matter because of maybe 500 people in Florida.

  “Maybe,” because a recount was physically interrupted by ratfucking bastards. Then that delay was used for by judicial Calvinball to cancel the recount entirely.

  And then they did it again in 2016.

  And then they nearly did it again in 2020.

  And then they there was a failed coup d’etat in early 2021.

  The Republican party is a criminal organization and must be dismantled.

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    later research on the 2000 election and on those ballots specifically, suggest that gore would have won had the recount not been stopped by scRotus.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I barely have it in me to care, when one thousand times more people voted for him and did not count.

      The electoral college should have ended with slavery.

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