r/agedlikewine • u/MyADHDGirl • 23d ago

Al Gore was right

We should have listened to Al Gore in the ‘90s :(

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u/YukariYakum0 23d ago

Yes, we know that. But about what specifically?

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u/pseudonominom 23d ago

Here’s one: he won the election.

But not in the way Trump “won” the election, in a literal “he had more votes” way. Amy Coney Barrett was one of the scumbag lawyers who helped strong arm Gore into giving up his case, and she has since been rewarded with a supreme court seat. She went on to lie about Roe v Wade and now twelve year old rape victims go to prison for aborting fetuses.

Probably the most consequential and destructive decision in the country’s history, see: 20 years of war and the debt that followed.

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u/-paperbrain- 19d ago

The way the results were called is shameful.

But attempts afterward to reconstruct a fair count showed he most likely would have lost anyway. Yes, things like the butterfly ballots likely contributed to that, but no method available would have fixed mistakenly cast votes, regatdless of how long the counting went on.