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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't see a problem with it, it's just for show at that point. Nobody should ever be shaking the hand of a GQP member. This is not a sporting contest, stop dividing everything into winners and losers. This is your government that you have now lost for the next four years and very likely, long after, along with all the other governments it will affect internationally.

What's astounding to me is that people think they will still have a democracy for subsequent elections. It was that bad, this was the time to act, and all that was actually manifested was resentment. It's not even just on the GQP side, people have been praising how Biden has been making this and that harder to change on day 1 - what does it matter when they will be deciding how many days they have from now on?

The people that shouldn't have fought did under frivolous claims and the people who should have fought had snow ball fights. I get that international bad actors wanted to fuel infighting and would have jumped at the chance of something they could have claimed "b-b-but they did it too!", but did they ever consider what the alternative they are now going to have to live through is?

I really hope I'm proven wrong, but I have almost zero faith left.