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The “wining” team, this time, didn’t really win, now did they? They lost by 3 million votes. Without going into what Russia did to tip this elections, which wer
by onyva 8y ago
The “wining” team, this time, didn’t really win, now did they? They lost by 3 million votes. Without going into what Russia did to tip this elections, which were won by mere 70,000 votes in the 3 key states.
This is for sure not your usual right vs left style of governing. It’s the right not accepting that they’ve lost. It’s the self righteousness of people who think they have the right to govern, no matter what.
- mikeash 8y agoThey won according to the rules of the game. Normal politics might say that they ought to govern from the middle given how narrowly they won. But with a team mentality, that makes no sense. It’s like saying the Super Bowl winners should share the trophy because they only won by one point and the other team ran the ball more yards. Does not compute.
- maxxxxx 8y agoVery true. The only thing that bugged me was that Trump can not even win with grace. He won but had to claim additionally without any proof that he would have won even more if not millions of illegal voters would have voted. Pretty sad.
- onyva 8y agoRules of the game, really? You mean colluding with a foreign government against your own people is playing by th “rules of the game”? Isn’t it exactly the oppsite? Whichever is the case with this narrow “win” they for sure did not get manadate to foundentally change the USA. And this is without getting into trump’s a non existing ideology of plan for governing. It’s not a government. A government does not work against the interests of its people.
- mikeash 8y agoYou were talking about losing the popular vote and explicitly disclaimed the rest, and I was following along.
- onyva 8y agoYet down voting me not making you sound very confident in your arguments.
- mikeash 8y agoI’m not downvoting you. HN doesn’t allow you to downvote replies to your own comments.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI'm downvoting you. (Others are also.) If you want to know why, I'll explain. You made a bad initial argument, which seemed to be motivated by having a political axe to grind. Since then, your replies have looked like someone who just wants to argue, but isn't actually listening to what they're replying to. That's a "dialog" that isn't going to contribute anything useful. All it adds is noise. We try to avoid that kind of thing on HN. Hence the downvotes.