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> they don't matter as much these days True, but you were talking about voting Trump/Harris, which pretty much implies the wide electorate, no matter who the r
by aebtebeten 10mo ago
> they don't matter as much these days
True, but you were talking about voting Trump/Harris, which pretty much implies the wide electorate, no matter who the real selectorate may be.
(speaking of selection, I completely forgot to include the judiciary in previous models. Would the whole Civil Rights thing have even happened if it hadn't been for the Warren Court?)
[Not that Warren was an angel, but despite his bigotry in other ways —or maybe because of it?— he was able to win state office by just winning both party's primaries, which I hadn't even known was a thing]
- gsf_emergency_6 10mo agoIn the old days the J was a force for solidarity? Now SV (purports to fill that role, as a champion of the "technocratic faction")
- aebtebeten 10mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Court#Decisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Court#Decisions There's a wonderful line in one of the Retief stories where The Corps Diplomatique Terrestrien attempts to introduce "one sentient one vote" on some planet out in the galactic boondocks, and the natives instantly grasp its corollary: one less sentient, one less vote... I'd believe the low of SV to be such a force; the high appear to be heading for https://www.angryflower.com/348.html https://www.angryflower.com/348.html , and I've been away for over half a lifetime, so I don't know what the mid may be doing. Blowing in the wind, probably?
- gsf_emergency_6 10mo agohttps://youtu.be/KDQSuXKT8MA https://youtu.be/KDQSuXKT8MA Liu Cixin ref (山杉惠子) was for https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/features/kaleidoscope/feature_liu_gang-02092011103727.html https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/features/kaleidoscope/feature_... https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%A0%B4%E5%A3%81%E4%BA%BA/51811043 https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%A0%B4%E5%A3%81%E4%BA%BA/518...