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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • I agree with Ken, but disagree with his reasons (in particular I think hiis first point is wrong) Here’s mine:

    • Doomerism like this is a self fulfilling prophecy, you are giving them permission to do the thing and discouraging the many people fighting to try and make the next election happen properly.
    • Most autocratic nations have elections, they just aren’t fair or free. American elections have never been completely fair, but have also been declining rapidly. The original statement thus promotes a dangerous false dichotomy (“see nothing to worry about, we had an election those gosh darn fear mongers don’t know what they are talking about”)
    • It’s not productive. Your belief that there will be an election in November or in 2028 should not change any of your behavior, it’s simply a demoralizing statement with no call to action, that is the opposite of what american freedom fighters need. Ultimately all it accomplishes is to make a bunch of anti-facists dislike Ken for making anti-facist statements.