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Comment by alasdair_ | Hacker News Reader

Is there ANY credible evidence of fraud, anywhere? Or are people protesting solely because they trust Trump?

Conspiracy theory extremism slowly turning into domestic terrorism. It's not a matter of what is real or what isn't. It's a matter of bullying the rest of the population to accept their beliefs as the truth.

https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/infrastructure-s...

Without hyperbole, this is textbook fascism.

"Orange man bad" has not aged well. This has to be one of not many times in politics where someone has been worse than even his own opponents could dream.

History will not look kindly on people who turned a blind eye.

Well, a number of Trump's opponents did think we'd be living in a fascist dictatorship inside of a year after he was elected. That didn't happen. This is very, very bad, worse than I expected, but plenty of people on Twitter expected the imminent end of the United States as a free society.

Not for lack of trying.

I don't deny that. He has been a terrible president, one of the worst we've seen and certainly the worst on domestic policy in my lifetime. His ambitions -- addled and confused though they are -- reflect the worst impulses of this country.

Fascist Trump can't even get anyone from attacking him publicly whatsoever. You really like to use that word, but are clueless and careless.

no, there is no credible evidence of fraud, this is a fascist brown shirt style coup

Saying there was absolutely zero fraud in this election is inaccurate, but saying the election was "stolen" is inaccurate as well. Every election has irregularities - most of it is people making honest mistakes on forms. As is typical, it is fairly minor in this election as well. Big picture - there are problems with electronic voting that have been researched into by many academics. I believe we must insist that the source code to all voting systems to be made public.

Every election has fraud, and this one was no different. It's just a matter of the scale of fraud. From all evidence thus-far, this election is not all that different than past elections when it comes to voter fraud. There was more chance for fraud (due to more mail-in voting), but no one has been able to prove it was large enough to impact any election result.

So yes, Trump has been riling up his base with words of stolen election, which has led to this moment.

The fraud was the black voter suppression.

The only serious problems we can see from the 2020 election, aside from the normal voter suppression that has long been common in many states, was the deliberate hobbling of the USPS by a Trump appointee and donor that results in an untold number of ballots not being counted that would have been counted had the USPS been operating at it's normal efficiency.

Appeal to authority, what higher authority than the POTUS? For weeks people have been telling Trump and his enablers they were playing with fire. Well..

There is very suspect video evidence of hidden away votes being snuck in once the room was cleared and those votes pushed Biden on top after Trump was winning. There is also iffy statistical data on the numbers of votes.

Have there been any Benford’s Law studies? Post them!

https://hereistheevidence.com/ presents some evidences, up to reader to decide if credible/substantial or not

Do we know who runs that site? It could be accidental but it looks like a very low information way to barrage one's opponents and avoid specific criticism

Have you found anything credible? All I can find with random clicks are lots of very long youtube videos that don't ever seem to get to the point and links to voting laws in particular states without any context.

It gives the impression of there being plenty of evidence, but non of the items I looked at actually upheld what they claim.

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