Mike Lindell says "54 countries have now been taken by the machines"

[anon36271483]

Just Wow!
That is some amazing deep research.
You make me feel terribly lazy.
I am actually a bit lazy, but now I feel lazier.
I am sort of thanking you and not thanking you simultaneously.
Consider it a Shrodinger’s kind of Thanks.

[anothernewbbaccount]

Google is our friend - it took less than five mins to find and scan those articles. My interest was genuinely piqued by your comment - it made me wonder how may more than 42 people, 15 sheep, etc. were actually casting votes needing to be checked and counted in such a short time. A couple of searches later…
So thanks are due to you, too. (But don’t open the box to see if the thanks are there - there is always the risk of disappointment)

If this were the US, no doubt the right-wing conspiracy fuckwits would be accusing the Sunderland people of all sorts of shenanigans and would come up with all sorts of daft allegations to ‘prove’ it could not be done so fast so must be rigged.

[anon36271483]

I honestly do get the importance when it comes to the US elections.
After all, where the US leads, the UK tends to follow.

In the UK, I would be called a “carrot-cruncher”, coming from the farming central sector.
We also have the “Monkey-Hangers”, from somewhere southwest (you’d have to google it).

We have a tendency to take the piss out of each other.

(Also, I will not open the box, though I think my thanks will survive most anything).
Cheers.

Or not, you never know!

[anon73430903]

@anothernewbbaccount

If this were the US, no doubt the right-wing conspiracy fuckwits would be accusing the Sunderland people of all sorts of shenanigans and would come up with all sorts of daft allegations to ‘prove’ it could not be done so fast so must be rigged.

In the past even the conspiracy nutcases would have stayed away from this, these are some of the safest Labour seats in the country, but now I could see some Qanon arsehole demanding a recount (or several recounts) to prove the conspiracy.

@anon36271483

In the UK, I would be called a “carrot-cruncher”, coming from the farming central sector.
We also have the “Monkey-Hangers”, from somewhere southwest (you’d have to google it).

I think the best one is West Cumbria, where Jam-Eaters is an incredibly offensive insult (I am 100% serious about this). There is no agreement on whether the original jam-eaters were from Workington or Whitehaven, just that they are from the other town.

[anon36271483]

@anon73430903

where Jam-Eaters is an incredibly offensive insult

I recall it as an insult against Miners.
Thatcher-era or before.
Still shit, whichever way you cut it.

[anothernewbbaccount]

@anon73430903

Jam-Eaters is an incredibly offensive insult

I’d not heard that one.
Makes you wonder how even more offensive “Jammie Dodgers” would be!

[lizard-of-oz]

@anothernewbbaccount

That’s what public sector experts (civil servants) are for - to advise politically elected representatives. Trying to elect experts to relevant positions would, I suspect, be fraught with many, many problems. But, then again, non-experts have a habit of ignoring the experts, too. Being elected is no different.

I was referring to ideas like liquid democracy, where you can delegate your decision making power per issue to different people. Electing experts would not help much, I agree.

@tcg550

Lots of things could happen, we don’t look for those things unless there is evidence that it did happen or even might have happened.

I think that is poor risk management for democratic elections, especially because we already know about security vulnerabilities of voting machines.

Maybe the misunderstanding is that this is about stealing a presidential election, which would require a lot of effort, and still be relatively easy to detect. Maybe this article is more helpful in outlining the various threats:

The Vulnerabilities of Our Voting Machines

[Adrian_Hillier]

We do here in the U.K. as well.
We also unleashed the machines onto an unsuspecting world as well, and there’s even a road going to the place responsible!

It’s about five or six miles away from me…

[anon73430903]

@anon36271483

I recall it as an insult against Miners.

It was an insult against miners by other miners. About the only thing everyone agrees on is that it started when miners from one of the towns had jam sandwiches as part of their lunch. Which town it was, and whether it was a sign they were working class or aspiring middle class, has been lost to history.