Saddam Hussein never held an election in which he got all of 23,277 ballots cast. Yet here we are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States of America ... and Joe Biden gets 23,277 votes out of 23,277 ballots cast?
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Now, looking at a quick but if the population... there are 1.584 million people in Philly. So if we said there were ~1 million voters, that'd make sense. A smaller chunk of those would be mail in. Philly, like most cities. Would be more Democratic leaning. And Trump railed and railed against covid being a non-issue and mail in ballots being terrible.
Of course mail in ballots are going to be predominantly for Biden. They don't want to go into crowds and don't think voting by mail is a scam
The race is currently very close in Pennsylvania. At the time of typing this response Biden is ahead in counting but only by a fraction of a percentage point, meaning that whoever does win, only got marginally more votes than their rival. In other words, loads and loads of people still voted for Trump.
As someone with autism I find Trump especially sickening when I consider that if I ever acted like him: If I were so childish, disruptive, relentlessly petulant, if I told so many absurd lies, lashed out with no thought to consequence, if I were ever too emotional or anything less than perfectly logical not only would I be punished for being abnormal and not only would I be a widely acceptable target for bullies but my right to autonomy as a human being would be at risk.
We've all seen many times, both in the quotes submitted and for many of us truly brutal personal experience, that those not neurotypical are simply equated with psychopaths or animals incapable of the same capacity for thought as human beings and that this can justify the acts of people like Judith Newman and Whitney Ellenby. We're told we're not "normal" and that we deserve this treatment, for our own good and everyone else's.
But Donald Trump? He is everything that has ever gotten me this treatment, everything I was ever falsely assumed to be as far as morality or empathy could be concerned and far to the contrast of my experience rather than being constantly shamed and diminished this is exactly his appeal to the "normal" people that support him. He doesn't act "normal" like I was expected to. But he's the one that's socially acceptable. His right to self-determination could not be challenged in such a way that mine could. In fact he is considered fit to make those calls for others.
That is deeply, fundamentally wrong in my eyes. And even if he loses this election and is no longer directly situated to pull the entire world down the fact will remain that despite all he had done, all that was called out but never punished, he was still popular enough with what everyone would have characterized as the normal everyday everyman that this was a fight. What the hell is "normal" supposed to be any more especially to the ones who try to justify bullying as a way to enforce it?
@Passerby #63737
I've got a 25-year-old book which I think provides a partial answer. "Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity amd Strangeness." It notes the flowering of eccentricity among 18th- through 20th-century British nobility. The authors ask why aristocrats were indulged, even admired, for behavior that would have gotten common people locked up.
@Lucilius #63741 @Passerby #63737
That reminds me of a rather apt quote from the Simpsons Movie, of all things.
Goon: “I’m afraid you’ve gone mad with power.”
Cargill: “Of course I have! Have you ever tried going mad without power!? It’s boring, no one listens to you.”
@Passerby #63737 @Lucilius #63741
Lucilis got this so unfortunately right. The most important point to these people, and the one you missed (probably because it doesn’t apply to you) is money. Trump is rich, and you are not. Rich people can always be spoiled brats. This even precedes the 18th century, when aristocrats were largely indulged, because they held control of enough military force to also hold control of mines, forests, granaries, and other means of wealth. This, by the way, is why Karl Marx wrote that the workers should seize control of the means of production, because this would make the aristocrats who’d lost all touch with morality, and sometimes reality, powerless to harm anyone anymore. Soldiers don’t do a whole hell of a lot for the people who don’t pay.
@KZadBhat #63765
the aristocrats who’d lost all touch with morality, and sometimes reality Pretty good description of the Trump family.
Well, Donald Fart: you're now devolving into a bizarre combination of Saddam Insane & Comical Ali.
While all those Blue M1 Abrams are approaching in the background, utterly unopposed.
Saddam Hussein never held an election, period. It sounds like someone wants to be a dicktator, also, but I think the American people might have something to say about that.
@Peacemonger373 #63797
A cult 70,000,000 strong with no sense of reality and few compunctions about violence. I'm legitimately surprised that none of them ran into the Philadelphia voting center with a bomb vest shouting "America is Great!" before taking out the remaining ballots and the innocent, terrified staff.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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