• fidodo@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Man, what I would do to have an unabashed giant nerd for president. I forget what people’s issue with Gore even was.

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      10 months ago

      Al Gore won the popular vote, but there was some sketchiness down in Florida. During a recount, Roger Stone rallied the troops (Brooks Brothers riot) which caused the counting to be stopped, due to threats of violence. Setting up the supreme Court to decide Bush won Florida.

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        10 months ago

        During a recount, Roger Stone rallied the troops (Brooks Brothers riot) which caused the counting to be stopped, due to threats of violence.

        In other words, the 2000 coup succeeded.

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          It’s why they project so hard about Democrats cheating elections.

          The Republicans have been for decades. And can’t stand sometimes enough people show up that they still lose.

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          LOL yep. Constantly the conservatives manage to take their own manufactured outrage turn it into violence and then turn out the results they want.

          Apparently burning down the Reichstag still works if you have the power to seize the moment.

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      10 months ago

      I, personally sat out that election because I didn’t like Al’s wife, Tipper Gore. She led the charge in a bunch of manufactured outrage about obscenity in music. I was also a jaded, cynical gen-xer who’d been hearing the importance of voting as long as I could remember, but every election was just choosing between a douchbag and a turd sandwich.

      Looking back on everything that happened after that election, it’s insane to imagine how different things would be now if Gore had been in office instead of the criminal enterprise that we ended up with.

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      10 months ago

      Gore was the watershed moment of the white left deciding no progress is allowed to happen unless it’s by their hands and they get all the credit.

      Nader fired up his campaign in swing states as an act of retaliation against Gore posing himself as the climate candidate.

      That’s it.

      The Greens had a meltdown that the thing that usually happens to third parties in this country, that is having their platforms become the mainstream if they make enough noise, was happening to them, and they decided we’re not allowed to make any progress on climate unless we do it through them so fuck Gore and fuck anyone who’d dare support that disgusting “mOdErAtE!”