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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 11:02:51 JST Paul Cantrell

   • Matt Blaze

   The thing that frustrates me about @mattblaze having to say this (again!) is that our elections were in fact hacked, and in plain sight: by obscenely large political spending by billionaires, rampant disinformation, voter demotivation, voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, the electoral college, racism, transphobia, and xenophobia baked deep into our culture…and the list goes on.

   That’s not speculation. It’s facts. It’s in broad daylight. And all of it is hacking.

   We invent technological hacking when the social hacking is staring us right in the face. https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114311024655971781

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 11:15:12 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Charles Gaba

     @charlesgaba

     Indeed. But to my mind, both are hacking, in that they are a structured effort to change the outcome of an election by means other than changing the minds of voters.

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     Charles Gaba (charlesgaba@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 11:15:13 JST Charles Gaba

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     • Matt Blaze

     @inthehands @mattblaze I've had to explain to people countless times that there's a huge difference between voter SUPPRESSION (limiting polling places, hours, purging registration lists, making it difficult to register, draconian photo ID requirements, bomb threats at polling places, etc) and CHANGING the results of the ballots which ARE cast.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 12:04:40 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jackie 🍉 :gay_communism: :trantifa:

     @burnoutqueen

     By “hacked,” I mean that the outcome of the election does not reflect the preferences of the voters. And yes, you have correctly identified the ones doing the hacking.

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     Jackie 🍉 :gay_communism: :trantifa: (burnoutqueen@todon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 12:04:42 JST Jackie 🍉 :gay_communism: :trantifa:

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     • Matt Blaze

     @inthehands @mattblaze

     We weren't hacked. the system is working as designed: the ruling class calls the shots, and our capitalist-owned political landscape keeps us bound to them in perpetuity.

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     -rb (dashrb@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 10:29:13 JST -rb

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     • wonofone 🍉
     • Jackie 🍉 :gay_communism: :trantifa:

     @wonofone @inthehands @burnoutqueen Kevin mitnick, potentially the greatest hacker of all time, freely admitted that most of his successful “hacking” was merely social engineering.

     Humans are so gullible. 🤦♂️

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     wonofone 🍉 (wonofone@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 10:29:14 JST wonofone 🍉

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     • Jackie 🍉 :gay_communism: :trantifa:

     @inthehands @burnoutqueen "social engineering"

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.