Putin says past U.S. elections were rigged

https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-says-past-us-elections-were-rigged-2024-01-16/

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18 Comments

Omgarm@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I mean, he's the expert on it.

r00ty@kbin.life · 6 pts · 2y

What I came here to say!

davel@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
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ApexHunter@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 2y

....by him?

cedarmesa@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y
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intelshill@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Half of the US also believes this. The other half doesn't.

grue@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

The leaders of the half that believes it know it's true because they did the rigging.

The leaders of the half that doesn't believe it also know it's true, but don't want to admit it because the first half's preemptive DARVO-ing has poisoned the rhetorical well against them. Also, admitting it would just weaken the public's faith in the validity of elections even further, playing into the other side's hands.

BorgDrone@lemmy.one · 11 pts · 2y (2 replies)

They don’t need to be rigged when there are only 2 options that are almost the same.

explodicle@local106.com · 10 pts · 2y

Acknowledging the way they actually rig elections would motivate liberals to vote further left.

doom_and_gloom@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
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runiq@feddit.de · 9 pts · 2y

pot, kettle, black, etc, etc

ODuffer@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

At least Clinton wasn't pushed out of a window

PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · -17 pts · 2y

It would be an improvement.

doom_and_gloom@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
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mlg@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Of course he'd know, he's the expert in rigging elections

danielf@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y

What, by him?

unreachable@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

DogPeePoo@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Putin has brain cancer.

kurcatovium@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Don't you need to have brain in the first place to get brain cancer?

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Not necessarily - Kissinger died of heart failure.

kurcatovium@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

Fair enough.

rustyfish@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y

Aha…