Are you fucking kidding me‽

The Mellon fortune again? After Cordelia Scaife May used it to help establish our racist immigration system?

https://web.archive.org/web/20190815020220/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/anti-immigration-cordelia-scaife-may.html

Glory to Arstotzka, I guess.

Coverage of “The Principality of Sealand” and the popularity of Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon probably contributed to the enthusiasm, as well as to the creation of Bitcoin.

Who can really follow the man in the wide castle?

Nancy was effectively president for Reagan’s second term. People were mad about Biden, but they also hid how far gone Reagan was. FDR, too.

Cute.

I don’t think that degree of optimism is justified.

My notes on this are a little old, but:

No VRA protections, voter purges/caging (Crosscheck), targeted disenfranchisement & gerrymandering, insecure/unauditable voting machines, undermined census, and gaming the electoral college, all impact the fairness of our elections, on top of the naive first-past-the-post implementation.

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/20/this-anti-voter-fraud-program-gets-it-wrong-over-99-of-the-time-the-gop-wants-to-take-it-nationwide/
• https://capitolfax.com/2017/10/13/dem-house-members-want-state-to-withdraw-from-flawed-national-voter-registration-crosscheck-system/
• https://capitolfax.com/2017/10/19/accidental-and-apparently-harmless-password-leak-could-prompt-move-away-from-crosscheck-program/
• http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article184229328.html
• https://www.thenation.com/article/house-republicans-just-voted-to-eliminate-the-only-federal-agency-that-makes-sure-voting-machines-cant-be-hacked/
• https://apnews.com/af2f0ede054d8baebbe1bb6ca47b4895
• https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/01/09/rnc-ballot-security-consent-decree-328995

Thanks for digging into that!

Do you have any references for this? I only ask because “cities are dangerous shitholes” has been a talking point of reactionaries for a long time.

A lot of hate for this, but it’s true.

Incumbents aren’t to blame for voters picking the familiar, that’s a symptom of another problem.

We’re seeing what an inexperienced government looks like now. They don’t know the limitations they’re supposed to have, and they don’t care.