mmirate

mmirate t1_ivwv5gh wrote

No, because you don't. Fascism is government supremacy and direction of the nominally-privately-owned means of production. Energizing the populace via hatred of an ethnic minority was Hitler's unique twist on it - contrast Mussolini and Franco.

China is practically fascist today, and has been transitioning in that direction ever since Mao's democidal failures taught them the same lesson that Hitler learned by reading the news from Lenin's Russia - communism is mortally inefficient because it centralizes not just the big goals like a dictator wants to, but also all of the tiny little decisions that are easily made on-the-ground in a decentralized capitalistic manner. The United States, meanwhile, has been fascist ever since the New Deal - we became the monster we sought to destroy.

As for more recent history ... ever since the end of the Occupy movement, the biggest and most-governmentally-controlled corporations, i.e. the fascist machine, have pushed the message of woke-ism, and that is the very same message Antifa shouted as they looted minority-owned small businesses back in 2020.

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mmirate t1_iujj2o5 wrote

Q1 is just removing all references in those two sections about a county office that has had all of its duties legislatively removed to other places, so that the office may be dissolved. It looks confusing because the ballot doesn't include the removed parts in stricken-through type.

Whatever happens as a result of Q2 passing, has to be approved by 60% of the voters at the next statewide ballot.

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mmirate t1_iuinmoc wrote

Q1 is just removing all references in those two sections about a county office that has had all of its duties legislatively removed to other places, so that the office may be dissolved. It looks confusing because the ballot doesn't include the removed parts in stricken-through type.

Whatever happens as a result of Q2 passing, has to be approved by 60% of the voters at the next statewide ballot.

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mmirate t1_itss2qr wrote

When you vote, you are exercising ultimate political authority, even if only a tiny fraction of it and even if limited by who is on the ballot (officials) and who isn't ("civil servants", gee thanks, Pendleton Act). With that authority, like all authority, comes the responsibility to use it wisely. Authority and responsibility are converses of one another, and are as inextricable as the positive and negative potentials in an electrical circuit. As dangerous as it is to wield authority without being responsible for the consequences of the orders you give, in equal measure it is absurd to be held responsible for something over which you have no authority to control.

When you slough off the responsibility to use authority wisely ("what if voters are mislead?"), whomever that responsibility defaults-to, takes authority over you ("because the voters could be mislead, we shouldn't let the vote happen!").

When you think about how dumb voters can be, you have a choice how to react. Maybe we should separate into smaller polities so that whoever is dumb will vote dumb things for themselves without affecting the not-so-dumb polity. Maybe we should have been more careful about only letting people vote if they actually have a stake in the system - after all, voting was not a right explicitly granted to anyone in particular, let alone "every citizen", until the 17th Amendment. Or maybe we should just let ourselves be ruled by whomever can best control the popular epistemology in their favor, and hope that their interests are aligned with ours - what could possibly go wrong?

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mmirate t1_itacfes wrote

If you have the mental capacity of a 5-year-old, then why do you think you have the responsibility required to exercise the political authority inherent in voting?

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mmirate t1_it5xfl7 wrote

California has shown us quite well that allowing only a very crippled white market, such that white-market goods are likely to be even more expensive than current black-market prices, is a perfect recipe to fail to eliminate the black market, its many ills and the many ills of any police efforts to stop the black market despite the 4th Amendment.

The state-run liquor stores are theoretically a horrible practice and we should cut all of the state spending that necessitates them, but practically they operate well enough that even our neighbors flock to them.

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mmirate t1_isp4tps wrote

The problem with a primary election in the first place is that it is entirely a matter of picking which candidate you think can motivate more of your base to go to the polls to vote for them, meaning it is literally a contest of who can build the biggest bandwagon, and there is no better way to measure that than to let the candidates all attempt to build bandwagons.

Approval voting would solve the problem; and it would also threaten the party duopoly, so it will never be allowed to happen on any nontrivial scale even though it is trivial to implement.

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mmirate t1_irwj5rs wrote

Credible sources said you couldn't get covid at all, let alone pass it on, if you got the vaccine. Credible sources said that Hunter Biden's laptop was inauthentic. Credible sources said the vaccine was "safe" which I took to mean that the risks of myocarditis, miscarriages, and other life-threatening side-effects were less than the conveyed reduction in risk of life-threatening effects from covid. Credible sources said that covid positively had to have been of natural origin and that any sort of "lab leak" was beyond the pale of possibility. Credible sources said that there would not be any inflation as a result of Trump's idiotic March-2020 moneyprinting. Credible sources said that lockdowns would be ended in two weeks and that more hospital capacity would be built up during that time. Credible sources said that there were WMDs in Iraq. Credible sources said that Spain sank the U.S.S. Maine.

They lie on a regular basis because it's their job. Occasionally the truth emerges some months or years later.

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mmirate t1_irszn7i wrote

You. You didn't post it until after I said "[citation needed]". Prior to me making that comment, your post contained only the text, no URL nor any other way of testing the null hypothesis that you wrote the text and put the candidate's name on it. (As is, for reasons explained by the person to whom you replied, we still fail to reject the null hypothesis that the unquoted words you wrote, fail to accurately summarize the meaning of what the candidate said.)

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