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The US just had a pretty good election. Democracy is alive and well.

• krapp 6y ago
  The US should consider itself lucky that its well armed neo-nazi lunatic fringe and the Orange Man were better at racist shitposting than pulling off a coup d'état. "Pretty good" sounds like a B, but I'd give this last election a C- at best.
  • smt88 6y ago
    Stealing two Supreme Court seats and meddling with the census were essentially a coup. GOP will remain the minority that runs the country for the foreseeable future.
    • xienze 6y ago
      “Stealing” two SC seats? Tell me which law was broken. Filling a vacancy in short order is a far cry from what Biden wants to do now, which is add seats to the SC. All this pearl clutching over breaking some supposedly sacred tradition of not filling a SC during some arbitrary number of months before an election and nary a peep about packing the court, how odd.
    • dang 6y ago
      Would you please stop posting political flamewar comments to HN? You did it repeatedly in this thread and it's not what this site is supposed to be for. Others are doing it too, but not counting the account that started it (which we just banned), yours stands out as doing it worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      • smt88 6y ago
        I agree. I flagged the whole thread for that reason. It sucks that reality has become so politicized, but I appreciate your moderation that mostly keeps it off the site.