Gotta know who to blame
Gotta know who to blame
As I recently said to a friend: "I fucking hate being right."
And he said "I fucking hate you being right."
(he was never in disagreement, he just still had a sliver of hope)
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"Things have been just fine for me so far, so they will continue to be for everyone!"
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If you want to see an apocalyptic political satire black comedy film that explores this concept, watch Don't Look Up (2021).
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The final lesson of the movie is important.
The sociopaths ending the world will never be satisfied, and they'll win because good people have too many rules and too much good faith. It isn't the failure of decent people, hug your loved ones, be happy and content as the sociopath capitalists can't be.
The greed class will end the world for our species, but unless you let them turn yourself into them trying to beat them at their own monstrous propaganda game, and you can't beat them as they revel in lies and cruelty like decent people can't, they can't force you to be as empty, hateful, and insecure inside as they have to be to need so much affirmation and power(capital).
They have no friends, they have no loved ones, they have no trust, only associates and threats and assets and "big moves." They see their own children as investments in legacy that they cast aside when they fail to become hateful, greedy, ambitious little clones of themselves.
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I remember when that blew up during the pandemic, and everyone was thinking it was about COVID. In reality, it had started production way before the pandemic was on most peoples’ radars, and was intended to be about climate change. But the partisan reactions to both so closely mirrored each other, that it was easy to mistake.
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I’ve been against electronic voting in the USA for years. Many states, especially the so called battleground states, rely on these for the most of the results.
People like me, who say paper ballots only please, have been ignored by the very people who are upset by outcomes calculated by procedures they cannot possibly explain ( it’s secret). Who will, until their dying day, swear they have faith in the integrity of these system because their cousin’s friend’s uncle knows somebody who works in sales who says it’s ok.
It really does not have to be that way. It’s a uniquely American trait, I think.
For many here, they can find comfort with each other.
For me, the initial disaster has not stopped, it started over a generation ago, and continues in its original form and fashion. And will be ignored by most reading this.
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I’ve been against electronic voting in the USA for years. Many states, especially the so called battleground states, rely on these for the most of the results.
Direct Recording Electronic voting machines are less common now, and DRE machines without voter verifiable paper receipts are even less common. Here is a state by state list. Louisiana is the only state with statewide DRE without paper verification. The other states that permit precincts to use DRE without paper are Mississippi, New Jersey, Oklahoma (only for those in need of assistive technology), Tennessee, and Texas. So that's one state that uses totally electronic voting statewide, 5 states that permit it in some instances, and 44 (plus DC) that prohibit electronic voting without a paper trail. And none of the states with DRE and no paper trail are swing states (although many have swing districts).
I think it was a bigger problem before, but is getting phased out.
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It’s more hidden but more of a problem now, actually.
But it’s such a complicated multi faceted issue with things that vary state by state it’s hard to do coverage without literally writing pages and pages. And very few people know all the stuff going on.
I will list some of my issues being generic as possible: (edited formatting below)
- it’s possible to write voting systems which allow one or two people who run the company to skew the results without the rest of the company having a clue. ( this I know by my 40 years of writing software)
- election voting systems are very complex and can be messed with at over a dozen (literally) different ways, other than #1
- the code and systems are normally trade secrets
- the admins are unknown, who has admin keys is a private list. The security here is unknown
- many states have exit polls done afterwards which are significantly different from the results
- many states flunk or withhold data for basic tests for ballot stuffing
- many places give printouts and receipts but no recounts use these, if recounts done at all
- the general rule of thumb is if it’s too complex to understand how the voting works then it’s not fair voting
- any electronic voting requires faith and trust to use. This is not how democracy works
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I've been feeling like Cassandra for years now
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Glorious.
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No pity
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The one on the left is The Democrat loyalist when you tell them they ran a bad campaign (they lost).
The one on the right is a Progressive.
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Whatever you need to tell yourself to keep your conscience at bay.
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We saw this comment coming too
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Bad campaign or not, everyone is in the same shit boat because some people chose this election to refuse to pinch their nose and vote for the Democrats.
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In many ways Dems were as bad as Trump this election. If they weren't so greedy in their push rightward, they could've kept up the lesser evil schtick for at least a couple more elections.
Unfortunately they decided to run a campaign further to the right than bush jr, exposing their whole ass in the process.
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Could just as easily say the one pointing out the past is a progressive and the one complaining about not being told is the kind of terminally online purist who insisted that Trump "wouldn't be that bad" because "both sides are the same"
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If only there were a more striking example, such as global warming or trump not being good for working class people....
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