No votes for the Republican cunt ahh haa haa

It’s not a big deal really, the entire electoral system timeframe in the US is still based on needing to travel by horse to deliver notifications of counts and things like that. It was never updated for modern technology so there is plenty of time built into the system to count and adjudicate normally.

To be honest it sounds incredibly backward to someone from a country where (in a general election) you vote one day, results announced by the time you wake up the next, and new head of govt in power by 2pm that day 😅

In general, its as if rules and procedures in US are chiseled on a stone tablet and cannot ever be modified or removed.

Better ways to handle it though i.e. send ballots out x weeks beforehand and demand they are returned by polling day.

I’m not a fan of postal ballots tbh and people in places with mandatory voting (e. G. Oz) work just as hard and manage to do their duty.

Am I right in thinking that some results in the US are decided without all (valid) ballots being counted?

Mississipi allows postal votes postmarked up to election day. They then allow 10 days for these to make it through the system and then they count.

Wondered about this. Wild. Sounds like the whole system is fiddled to ensure the republican norm.

In my head there’s a southern belle sitting on a porch fanning herself with her hat, sipping lemonade. “I do declare I just cannot count these ballots in this heat!!”

Wild. Sore losers by the sounds of it.

So, after the votes are counted they may ask a jury to approve it?

Or is it like a fully litigated court case?

Do the right realise that they are on borrowed time and all they’re doing is arming the left?

Wow, merci beaucoups! 😁

What’s the story with Alaska being so late? Similar drama?

You know I’m not a conservative right? This is Lemmy, literally no-one here is.

No one cares about our little internet pretend-debate you’re trying to have.

You literally jumped in after it was finished. If you didn’t care you would’ve scrolled on 😅

Do I?

I’m a Conservative??

Is ‘claims to know something’ literally the only thing you could come up with??

It is, but the issue is the right time to buy hardware was 2 years ago.

It is neither factually wrong, nor does it lack precision.

What about abortion and the one-child policy? What about the system of state ownership of industries and strict control of private enterprise? Or state-imposed pricing of medications? Would you confidently describe those as ‘conservative’ policies?

Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation

What about Winston Churchill, Angela Merkel or Konrad Adenauer?

Conservatives have been working hard for decades to somehow re-define fascism, communism, socialism, marxism, racism and antisemitism as “progressive” ideologies.

Have they really? Donald Trump has been pushing UBI has he…? I didnt know he identified as a ‘racist’?

Communism is neither conservative nor its opposite, progressive

Good, I’m glad we agree on something.

It is possible for conservatives to govern in a communist framework (ex: China, Russia, North Korea).

Umm. If that were the case then you’d think there’d be plenty of examples. Which Chinese or Soviet-era leader would you specifically describe as being ‘conservative’. Not ‘socially conservative’, just ‘conservative’…?

Outside of specific university classes, the most commonly accepted modern western socio-political context of the word “conservative” is congruent with social conservatism.

Is it really. What about the ‘Conservative’ parties of UK, Norway and Denmark that legalised gay marriage?

China is a one-party psuedo-communist state, which is ultra far-left - the polar opposite of political conservatism. Yes, gay marriage is not permitted, but thats due to social conservatism.

You’re correct in saying China is socially conservative, but saying its conservative implies a right-wing political ideology. It lacks nuance and implies something that is factually wrong.

Russia - yes very conservstive. Soviet Union was politically far-left but modern Russia is basically christo-fascist. So its culturally, politically and religiously conservative.

You’re framing it in the American context though. Mixing politics and religion is taboo in most western democracies. And, religious conservatism isn’t the same as political conservatism.

Ireland is a good example - devoutly Catholic but with very liberal politics. Gay marriage has broad support.

UK - pretty much godless and very liberal - but historically politics has been dominated by the Conservative party. Broad support for same-sex marriage, and it was actually brought in by a Conservative government.

China - authoritarian single-party system. Follows Communist ideology with a capitalist bent. Religion - taboo, government controlled, doesn’t feature in politics at all. The important difference is that its culturally very Asian. Even eastern democracies like South Korea and Japan have a tricky relationship with gay rights.

If that were to change you’d imagine CCP would support gay marriage as it poses no threat to ideology or party policies.

Tankies are conservatives

For ‘conservatives’ they do an awful lot of praising China.

I’m convinced they aren’t real and are just weird bots. They are a strange bunch.