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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Damn that sounds really really familiar. Almost like it happened just a couple years ago.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Though the Bush presidency lead to Cheney's wife taking up that mantle anyways.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You think you might be projecting just a little bit of internalized anger there?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

He hates anyone to his left. And only his left.