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Originally Posted by FlyWf
The voter fraud thing isn't about the nuts and bolts of how it'd work, it's just a tribal signifier that any victory by a candidate who doesn't win the white male propertied class is by definition invalid.
Yep. Here for free is my top secret method of decoding deplorable-speak:
Figure out what the justifiable conclusion would be if what the deplorable is saying were true. The deplorable is simply communicating that he thinks that should happen. He's distrustful of the whole concept of "facts" and just invents his own whenever he needs any. The point of argument to him is as a flimsy justification for what he wants to happen.
So in this instance, saying there was voter fraud is just saying that it would be awesome if the election were declared invalid. There's nothing more to it than that.
Edit: I realized that's not really it. What I mean is, they're saying "My emotional state right now is that this election was unfair and should be invalid. Therefore, something happened to make me feel this way. Voter fraud!". In other words, to these people, reality is whatever feels true, to them personally.