wish you guys weren't a worldwide superpower otherwise I could just ignore your government nonsense and go on with my life

bruh i wish we weren't either

ok I glanced at the american election on google and immediately got nervous

I don't know much about your country but I imagine california will come in swinging at the last moment like always?

the "red mirage" and subsequent "blue wave" are common

conservative voters are more likely to vote in-person, and those votes get counted first

so everything will look red for a while

ooooh I see

once the west coast polls close, it'll even out

those polls are open for 3 hours longer than east coast polls, generally

because of time zoens

zones*

thanks for the explanation, I was vibrating slightly thinking that maybe it's not a sure thing after all

based on closing polls from most news sites, it still isn't! but it will be close and we probably won't know for a few days

and there is a 100% chance that by the end of the night, trump will claim victory regardless

so it just has to be expected

man that sucks

yeah

he's convinced his base that the only way he loses is if there's some massive fraud

so he's already laid the groundwork to claim victory regardless if every state is reporting

hm, not looking good

I wasn't super interested in this at the start of the day bc I thought it was going to be a clear and obvious winner

shows how much I know about anything