"its rigged" is possibly the simplest, most effective election meta we'll see in our lifetime. there will come a day where voting genuinely doesn't change anything because it's literally rigged, but this shit is an incredibly powerful strategy and i have to give some credit. since 2020 this has been the new default explanation for conservative losses during midterm elections, etc. and there's simply no way to argue against it. if enough people report you for cheating in games, sometimes you get penalized automatically based on that instead of whether you were actually cheating or not. a few bots organized on social media platforms could make any typical person question the election by simply seeding some groupthink hivemind operation at the press of a button. the powers that be turn us into picrel and distract us from using basic logic so that we may not prosper.
United States