I get it, 50% residents of one of the most influential countries on earth will be very upset, with a lot of geopolitic consequences.

But for some, we cant change the outcome in anyway, I hate the way content even on the Fediverse becomes. Yes its important but man. I was all into 2016 elections but it doesnt really change anything anyway. Americans go vote and all, though.

I just wanna talk about kernels and factorio, man

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Really hope nobody wins.

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nobody ever does, we just lose less.

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Sad

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¯\_(ツ)_

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It drives me mad how the UK media obsesses over US Presidential elections because they’re still pretending the “special relationship” exists, yet they pay hardly any attention to European elections that actually have more impact on the UK.

They’ll literally cut away from UK news to bring a campaign speech from Trump or Harris. Why? We don’t get a vote in it, so we don’t need to hear it.

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We gotta pretend we give a shit about your crowns and all that, so I don’t want to hear it.

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Lol no you don’t

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Well, talking about the EU might remind the rubes how shit things have gone since Brexit, so of course they don’t want to bring that one up.

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It’s only fair, the US does the same shit with UK royalty.

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Haha i quit reddit not because of the api change and the stupid blackout/protest. But to get away from the propaganda.

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Small reddit pages are the best, but yeah front page reddit seems like a lot of political/corporate content

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It costs me nothing to scroll past. Let everyone think it makes a difference, in a few months, we’ll settle back into our comfortable dystopia and we’ll go back to arguing over other stuff.

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One more day. Just one more day. Election day is tomorrow, and by the early hours of the morning after, it’ll all be over.

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No it won’t. The bullshit will continue with all the election denialism, the rhetoric and violence. Not to mention an the Republican state governors that will fuck shit up.

It ain’t over.

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That bullshit will continue, but the obsession of the upcoming election will die down. For those of us who are interested in politics, it will remain an active time; for the majority of people, and thus the constant, annoying buzz of election articles on here, it’ll be over.

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i dunno… one thing about trump: he’s basically guaranteed ratings for the media–ALL of it. and he’s pretty much a bottomless supply of absolutely apeshit bonkers headlines which will probably only increase regardless of the outcome of tomorrow

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This is unfortuantely going to be dragged out for weeks while counts are finalized and certain candidates start claiming victory fraudulently. Just like the last election 🙄

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Do you know when the first reliable results will come in?

I bet it will be quite late over here in the EU though 😔

Edit: thank you both, guess I’ll see the results in the morning :-) or if I go pee in the middle of the night 😋

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Depends on how close it is. 2020 was a bit chaotic on account of COVID; 2012 and 2016 were both decisively called before 5 AM EST.

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The first polls on the East Coast close at 2000, which will be 0100 Wednesday morning in the UK, 0200 CET.

It will take a while to count up all the votes, though, particularly in states where they don’t start counting the mail-in vote until the election closes. I bet when you wake up on Wednesday we still won’t really know.

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Well, they’ll know how a lot of places will go, but this one will be probably close enough that I doubt that we’ll be able to make a solid call on the election as a whole very early.

And always possible that there could be a Florida “hanging chads”-style challenge and effort to trigger recounts in any place that winds up extremely close in results, so that might extend it.

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We won’t know the winner til Thurs eve or Friday. My money is on Friday.

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