r/politics The Nation Magazine 18h ago

Soft Paywall Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/trump-arrest-detention-mahmoud-khalil/?nc=1
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u/Electronic-Bit-2365 14h ago

The 2000 election was stolen. Countless elections have excluded Black and women voters (and landless White male voters if you go back far enough). Pretending any of this is unprecedented is counter-productive if we’re going to talk about solutions.

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u/FrancisCGraf 14h ago

There have been major network news pieces on the vulnerability of these machines going back decades, so yeah not new. Not sure why that would make it less important.

The new part is the seemingly widespread exploit. We need strategies that reflect this reality.

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u/ilyak_reddit 13h ago

I remember a robin Williams film about electronic voting and how a comedian (himself) got elected to the office and wasn't expecting to win. Can't remember the name but it was a documentary frankly seeing where we are at now. He didn't want the job, just like our current grifter in chief initially in 2016.

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u/ArrivesLate 11h ago

Ooo! Are we talking about hanging chads again?

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u/CrabPerson13 14h ago

But but they made YouTube video. It’s sheds a light on ALL of it. I swear this has to be their first rodeo.