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Okay fine, but that is a different argument.

This obsession with the phrase “widespread systemic” is a distraction that prevents people from actually talking to one another.



I submit that a still bigger problem preventing people from actually talking to one another about this is the lack of evidence of an actual stolen election.



And of course I got trolled into engaging. But fine:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/here-is-the-evidence/ https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/B... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/technology/a-website-fund... https://www.hoover.org/research/no-evidence-voter-fraud-guid...

All that stuff is just junk, you realize. And you can tell because none of it makes sense! It's got a bunch of numbers and a long list of links to click on that makes you feel like there must be evience (which is the whole point), but when you actually drill down... there's nothing there. It's all argumentation of the form "Why would X be true if we know Y?", leading you to suspect that the "real" reason must be "Z" without saying it. That's not argument, it's a gish gallop. And it's fooled you.

I mean, just to make a point using the same logic[1]: if elections were this easy to cheat, then why aren't the cheaters winning all the time? Why do both sides share power at all? How does it not devolve into a single party illuminati running everything? I submit that it doesn't because elections aren't being stolen.

[1] But in favor of bland conservatism about "stuff works normally" and not a particular criminal conspiracy.


Surely you can see the humor in linking to the nytimes here, given the topic of this thread.




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