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b_b  ·  1305 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Election That Could Break America

Thanks for the reminder, Steve. I keep reading these articles about Trump refusing to step down even in the face of a dramatic defeat, and it gives me anxiety of a sort I've never felt from electoral politics. I need a reminder that the internet exists as it does solely to increase reader "engagement", and articles such as this are a good way of doing that. My brother spends too much time on Twitter, and he swears he's moving to Japan should Trump be reelected. The internet, present website excluded, has turned into such a horrible place that it causes friends and family to turn on one another (literally, my mom and her brother, who were super close, didn't speak for a year after Trump was elected because of a Facebook fight). Fear mongering == boku bucks on the internet. That's unfortunately a lot easier to see when the other guys are doing it.