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I live here and replied to this post you linked. The TL;DR of the comment there is:
I do feel the lawsuit is valid, but the delays he’s complaining are caused by Republican efforts to make early/mail-in voting harder during COVID when they didn’t want people to easily vote in a hurry. Now that they do, they’re mad they got what they wanted.
It’s just more of them trying to “prove the system doesn’t work,” and the main proof they have is the stuff they themselves broke.
They’re anti-education for a reason…
Yup, same nonsense as when they sabotage the Post Office and talk about how that doesn’t work. The votes against immigration reform and then the yelling about that not working. Won’t cut spending or raise taxes but complain about deficit spending.
They want you to want to throw out our current system so they can replace it. That’s why it’s important to understand the right people to be mad at. If you get mad at anyone other than them themselves, they win.
Rest easy now, friend. The battle is over.
From The Guardian:
The queues for late mail ballots were a result of Pennsylvania not having an early on-site voting system at designated spots, as is the case in some other states. Instead, voters can apply for ballots on demand at election offices before filling them out and submitting them on the spot, a procedure that takes about 10 minutes.
The flood of late applicants overwhelmed electoral workers in Bucks county’s administration building in Doylestown, leading to a long queue, which was cut off at about 2.45pm on Tuesday
I went to drop off my ballot on Saturday and when I got there, not to the main office in Doylestown, but one of the smaller remote offices, and there was a huge line all the way across the front of the building and I was wondering what the heck was going on.
As I was getting to the end of the line, a person came over and asked if I already had my ballot, and when they saw it, they said I could go right in and drop it off. There was only one couple ahead of me there.
I had been wondering what the line was for, and now that makes sense. The Republicans had made the mail in ballot more complicated than necessary during COVID, so now they seem to feel it biting them as their potential supporters have been screwed by it.
“Democrat election officials are seeing our numbers. They’re seeing our turnout. They are seeing us breaking early vote records across Pennsylvania,” he said. “They are terrified. And they want to stop our momentum. We are not going to let them suppress our votes.”
Pennsylvania does not start counting votes before election day. Nobody has any clue as to who is voting for whom.
They’ve broken the system and want to say “look at this broken system, we can’t trust it!” To me that just shows we can’t trust you!
I really hope Pennsylvanians do the right thing. These people need to be stopped.
Well, he is talking about the Alien Enemies Act as an immediate action on taking power. There’s only really one way to round up what he’s saying are millions of people at once, and it’s what the Alien Enemies Act was last used for, setting up concentration camps.
I reeeeeeally try to stay hopeful most of his supporters are ignorant of what they’re going along with, or we are in serious trouble as a nation no matter who wins.
That would be amazing! No need for 2% to be the end goal instead of just a good start. A good government serves all its citizens, not just the ones with big bank accounts.
I know 2% is fairly laughable when we’re talking normal people money, but this is 20 million per 1 billion.
when simply considering the 10 biggest fortunes in France, the tax would bring in no less than €13bn for the state.
A country can do a decent bit of good for people with 13 billion.
I really enjoyed season 2. I was looking forward to the arc that’s the second half since it came out in the manga.
If you like the show in general, you should enjoy the movie just as much.
Watched Spy X Family: Code White the other night, and was very pleasantly surprised. I wasn’t expecting much, and went in mostly blind other than knowing it wasn’t based on manga content.
Animation looked great, and for a plotline that centered around the family going out for dessert, it turned out to be a very compelling story. It fit in perfectly with the regular anime/manga, and you could watch it wherever you’re at in the series without being lost or it feeling out of place. All 3 MCs got a good amount of story time as well, and a lot of side characters had appearances, so it’s not just an Anya story or Loid, etc.
If you haven’t seen it, but enjoy the show, give it a watch. It was a lot of fun!
Agree with you wholeheartedly!
While it wouldn’t have been policy, with the spoils system still remaining, plus what all rich people get away with at any point in history, I feel there still would have been some choice bits taken for the North, but if it was given to all now free Southerners, I would hope civil rights and racial equality would be decades ahead of where we are now.
The only counterpoint is that while Germany was punished pretty hard after 2 wars, they are still more far right than I think many would hope in even less time than we are now from the US Civil War…
Using genealogist-verified historical data and financial data from annual congressional disclosures, we examined members of the 117th Congress, which was in session from January 2021 to January 2023.
Of its 535 members, 100 were descendants of slaveholders, including Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell.
Legislators whose ancestors were large slaveholders – defined in our study as owning 16 or more slaves– have a current median net worth five times larger than their peers whose ancestors were not slaveholders: $5.6 million vs. $1.1 million. These results remained largely the same after accounting for age, race and education.
Wealth, these studies find, often stays within rich families across multiple generations. Mechanisms for holding onto wealth include low estate taxes and access to elite social networks and schools. Easy entry into powerful jobs and political influence also play a part.
But members of Congress do not just inherit wealth and advantages.
They shape the lives of all Americans. They decide how to allocate federal funds, set tax rates and create regulations.
This power is significant. And for those whose families benefited from slavery, it can perpetuate economic policies that maintain wealth inequality.
Beyond inherited wealth, the legacy of slavery endures in policies enacted by those in power – by legislators who may be less likely to prioritize reforms that challenge the status quo.
I’m curious the ratio of those who have had former family members that have been politicians to those that are actually political outsiders. This article points out that the status quo is less of what society as a whole wants, but rather more what a select group of families has felt has worked for them to stay in that upper echelon.
If the South has been forced to give everything up after the war, I don’t know if it would have been any better as far as if rich Northerners actually would have just bled off the best spoils of war and still left the South impoverished, but leaving the aristocracy get away with playing things like it never happened does not seem to have been the best choice either.
It would be interesting to see where things would be if all that wealth and land was divided up between all southerners of all races evenly, and those who lead the Confederacy had been punished. I feel many of today’s problems stem from the North turning the other cheek to the defeated South.
I liked them playing a bit with the animation styles in some of the reaction shots. The show feels old and new at the same time, which I’m enjoying.
The animation seemed somewhat improved from last week. I still feel this should have gotten 2 or 3 more episodes, as none of the tension has much time to build before we see the climatic moments.
I’ve been reading Ito’s other works, and I feel a lot is predictable in many of the tales, not necessarily that you always know what’s going to happen and certainly not what it will look like, but more a 1) meet nice character(s), 2) meet the obvious creeper, 3) nice characters discuss the creeper and say nah, they can’t be as creepy as they seem, 4) your anxiety rises as you wait for the reveal, 5) Lovecraftian horror is revealed, 6) the end.
Step 4 is the one that sucks you in, even if it’s formulaic. It gets you invested in what’s going to happen. Without that time for the creepiness to bloom, it just feels like you’re working through the checklist.
I feel there’s some old comment about the CSI type shows where it’s always suspect number 3. You get introduced to some possible people, but if they always went to the first guy and they’re all oh yeah, this is the killer, the end, what’s the point? That’s what this adaptation has felt like to me.
I love a lot of Ito’s ideas, and the art style is great for his stories, but I feel most of the narrative is just there to string the creepy drawings together. I’m cool with that. But with the anime, you’re just on to the next scene before you get time to get creeped by what you just saw.
It is a fishnet pattern keffiyeh (Palestinian headdress), as she seems to be wearing it around a lot to appear as the most pro-Palestinian candidate.
From NPR
Some say patterns on the keffiyeh symbolize different aspects of Palestinian life: the bold black stripes on the edges symbolize the historical trade routes that used to go through Palestine; the fishnet-like design represents the Palestinians’ ties to the Mediterranean Sea; and the curvy lines resemble olive trees, a major point of pride for Palestinians.
Though none of these claims can be backed up by historical evidence, over the past 10 years they’ve become embraced by Palestinians in the diaspora to be the meaning behind their keffiyeh’s patterns.
The full report lists suggested practices to mitigate the damage we do, from more ecologically minded agricultural practices and shifts in our diet to accelerating development and funding of renewable energy and delivering it to the third world, as they are many times left with only the worst fuels to use for everything.
It’s all things that require large amounts of money with great long term but no short term benefits for those with money, a slight bit of personal inconvenience as we as societies learn more planet healthy habits, and a small amount of compassion for those less well off than us, most likely due to a lack of compassion in the past.
I will not be holding my breath…
The full report is worth a glance, as it’s divided into sections where it looks at individual continents and discusses some of their unique problems. I mainly stuck to reading the proposed solutions sections, as I have reached my limit on dealing with all the different impending dooms going on recently. Even the countries that are doing some good changes are still not fully committing to it, even as they see positive results. We’re past the point of being able to wade into this stuff. But with worldwide societies trending towards more selfish and nationalist tendencies, I feel things will continue to worsen for the remaining half of my life.
I try not to be a downer about it, but it’s hard when I see and read about it every day.
Gang members “came in shooting and breaking into the houses to steal and burn. I just had time to grab my children and run in the dark,” said 60-year-old Sonise Mirano on Sunday, who was camping with hundreds of people in a park in the nearby coastal city of Saint-Marc.
Similar ones [gang attacks] have taken place in the capital of Port-au-Prince, 80% of which is controlled by gangs, and they typically are linked to turf wars, with gang members targeting civilians in areas controlled by rivals. Many neighborhoods are not safe, and people affected by the violence have not been able to return home, even if their houses have not been destroyed.
More than 700,000 people — more than half of whom are children — are now internally displaced across Haiti, according to the International Organization for Migration in an Oct. 2 statement. That was an increase of 22% since June.
Port-au-Prince hosts a quarter of the country’s displaced, often residing in overcrowded sites, with little to no access to basic services, the agency said.
This is a key difference that certain parties leave out when discussing “illegal immigration.” These people aren’t coming here to take your country or your job or whatever you imagine the case to be. They are asylum seekers, not just from Haiti, but anywhere that this type of situation is daily life. They don’t want to come to America, they want their own homes to be safe, but they are not, nor will they be in the foreseeable future.
If anyone in America, England, Germany, Greece, etc was in the same situation, they would be doing the same, because no one would want to live in that or to put their families through this. But all those that want to close off the borders to these people are swatting away those hands reaching out for help. All these major countries did things to help create the situations these people are trying to escape from, but they refuse to own up to it. We did these people dirty and then we ignore them as they die for it.
It’s just so frustrating to see, and to not see any country showing us a good example of humanity or compassion.
This was pretty rough. I was already iffy on the first episode, and this episode felt even more rushed and disjointed. It jumps around so much I feel there’s no building that sense of dread.
Wow, this guy’s voting record and the bill’s he’s sponsored read exactly how you’d imagine too.
He was in the Air Force 30 years, was a commercial pilot, and a cop, and none of those jobs ever seemed to manage to teach him to manage the mildest level of stress, judging by his past news stories. What a delicate individual.
Oh totally, it’s like, we got your actual vote right here!