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What’s wrong with it?

American movies have a strong flavor of fascism, and related, and it’s not new

Clinton killed more in Iraq with deliberate destruction of water treatment plants, sanctions and attacks on energy grids.

Yes, it has been the plan, was the plan. Paper ballots have been gone already for decades for most states.

Most Americans never noticed a democracy slip away from them. They participated in a voting ritual, yes, but left the ballot counting to their enemies and totally trusted them

So, I’m just sort of typing without thinking about it much. But Trump will never step down, it’s an impossible demand, but it’s incendiary enough for orange face to not ignore it. This remains in the press cycle because it’s personal to him, there will be constant agitation by police and agencies against the protesters who just stay or regroup.

Assuming the original protesters stay the course, this will attract more and more participants because Trump himself, and the gop, will keep it in the news.

This is a positive growth cycle; eventually the demand will be the entire White House vacate when there enough protestors, and it’s now a revolution, peaceful it may be

5,000 (+- some) dedicated people who communicated well with each other and others. Who were willing to just stay in the streets until the government changed. The only one demand given: the president had to step down.

I’ve seen revolutions start with less, but America is large.

it’s marked with deep, wide incisions, and they contain traces of red pigment. The boomerang was clearly made to be used, but it wasn’t purely utilitarian; someone wanted this thing to look cool while it was whizzing through the air.

I’m in Texas, and lived next door to a young couple where the woman had a non viable fetus grow inside her for many months until she had a scheduled c-section near term.

They had a medical team of several doctors monitoring her, and because these complications could kill the mom suddenly, they were ready to go to the hospital 24/7 for months.

No domestic abuse that I know of, but it ruined their relationship and they still have not spoken to each other after the divorce.

Demand ballot counting like most the other democracies in the world have now.

It’s really foolish to think oneself a democracy but depend on vote counts that are not recounted or verified by humans , but left to a handful of private companies. Even if your state has ok counting, you still dependent on other states that don’t, to decide the federal government .

Americans have faith in a system they refuse to think much about, and would not understand if they did, because it’s hidden behind trade secrets. They naively assume such things are monitored by ethical experts, when no such checks exist.

Private companies determine your primaries and government, and they are not double checked. Most states flunk standard tests for ballot stuffing. And the exit polls are off by so much that the mainstream press stopped using them recently.

It’s just a weird complex system that is supported by faith

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The USA has some very old fashioned ways of documenting native born citizens. There are probably dozens of different ways the paper trail is made, each depending on generations of tradition in the local areas.

This would be easy to disrupt that should a more centralized system come in and local laws invalidated; laws that have never faced challenges because who would, until now?

So, it may never happen that citizenship is yanked away like that. But it’s not that secure either. We are probably at least a few years away. A few more layers of laws need to be trampled and trashed

I’m not sure of what I’m talking about exactly, but I vaguely suspect that integrating with the fediverse will make some of their less ethical practices at tumbler too transparent and obvious.

But that is one part hunch and one part cynical belief, I don’t know of the details

The Democratic Party has a lot of garbage, and has certainly stopped a lot of reform, while portraying themselves as the only party for reasonable people. They have managed to tap the energies of good people who think this is the only path they can take to help.

They have spent over a century squashing small political parties who could be a threat later. In later years they have been so successful at this that any opposition at all is viewed as almost treasonous.

But the worst thing they have done is not the above, or OP article. Their worst sin is helping to move the country away from paper ballots counted in front of human witnesses. And while there are some states that have good participation from mail in ballots, which is good. And a precious few who do ballots properly. The Democratic Party, as a whole, is utterly silent on the majority of states. Including states where they are the minority party.

They could not do this without the willful ignorance, despondency, intransigence and pig headedness of the majority of Americans.

I think these few generations of American voters will not be looked at kindly in the histories; it will be seen as totally weird by future historians.