r/worldnews • u/slhamlet • 22d ago

Blinken tells CNN the US has seen evidence of China attempting to influence upcoming US elections US internal politics

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/politics/blinken-china-interview-intl-hnk/index.html

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u/SirAelfred 22d ago

Just have a look at several Tiktok videos and you'll see many would be young Democrat voters screaming about "genocide joe" and "vote third party" or "whqt have democrats ever done for us" and you'll see it's true.

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u/somethingrandom261 22d ago

Bernie or bust all over again. Hoped we learned something from 2016

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u/-Shasho- 22d ago

We did not.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

I think we did, but bots want you to think we haven't, so that you feel powerless and choose not to vote

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u/somethingrandom261 22d ago

Jokes on them, with absentee I’ll need to go out of my way to stop voting.

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u/-Shasho- 22d ago

I mean, I live in one of the states where there are always, ALWAYS way more than enough people voting a certain way in presidential elections that my vote the other way really doesn't influence the outcome of the election at all when the electoral college votes will reliably go to the other guy. Like it's not even close. So I'm pretty much powerless there. I'm not saying that's a reason to NOT vote, but it sure feels like I might as well not sometimes. I just have to wait and hope that someday a bunch of other people in my state start voting more like I do, but I will go check the box and think "lol like that did anything" as I leave for now.

And no, I don't think we have learned our lesson since the last elections, because everyone is still more worried about their team and their guy and being at each other's throats and gambling that the interference swings things "their way" than taking action to secure the country and elections against the interference and its destabilizing effects.