I don’t doubt that. But my comment was Intended to be more general.
This is really just amazing. What a way to make a statement.
Aria DiMezzo, who refers to herself as a “She-Male” and whose campaign motto was “F*** the Police,” ran as a Republican in the primary.
More than 4,000 people went into the voting booth on September 8 this week, and they all filled in the circle by my name despite knowing absolutely nothing about the person they were nominating to the most powerful law enforcement position in the county. That’s a level of recklessness of which any decent human being should be ashamed."
I’m running for sheriff because I oppose that very system, and the sheriff has the most hands-on ability in Cheshire County to oppose that system. The system that let you down by allowing me–the freaking transsexual Satanist anarchist–be your sheriff candidate is the same system I’m attacking. I’m sorry, and I know it hurts to hear, but that system is a lie. The entire thing is a lie. It’s broken from beginning to end, and my existence as your sheriff candidate is merely how this reality was thrown into your face.
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Reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson and his run to be Sheriff around Aspen.
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This is exactly what I needed this morning.
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I posted this at the other place and thought it should be shared here:
Maciej Cegłowski has written about effective political giving, i.e. how to maximize the political bang for whatever you can or want to donate. He gives several pieces of advice, but the one I found most eye-opening was on the importance of giving to downballot races.
This is why I’m an advocate of indirect giving. If you want to support Biden or the Senate campaigns, find underfunded Congressional, state and local candidates running in districts those big campaigns need to win. Downballot candidates target groups of voters that may be invisible to the bigger campaigns, but whose vote will help them in November.
Consider that in a state house campaign, where the voter universe may be a few thousand people, it’s not unheard of for the candidate to have met every voter individually.
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When it comes to state races, Republicans still run circles around us. In Florida, state house races have struggled with a 5:1 fundraising disparity even as Federal races are roughly at parity. Republicans often have the support of local businesses and chambers of commerce, and run wealthy candidates who have a large fundraising network.
https://idlewords.com/2020/09/effective_political_giving.htm
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This is a big part of why the US is in the position it is. Dems tended to ignore downballot races. Republicans did not. And in the US system who writes the rules? The states. Who tends to fill state gov positions? People with previous experience or connections – aka lobbyists or people with city/municipal experience. Oh, what, those are mostly Republican? How did that happen?
Some on the left have worked this out (note that says left, not Dems), but they have decades of catch-up to play in a system that is deliberately stacked against them. A system designed by a demographic that tends to attract a lot of lawyers, who aren’t afraid to exploit every loophole they can to consolidate their power.
This is not to say other countries are safe. Every system has its pressure points and levers. This just happens to be a failure of the US system that really can be laid at the feet of those who don’t understand how “bottom-up” a lot of the system really is.
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It’s killing me that there’s a mob of fools that want to re-elect an impeached POTUS. IMPEACHED.
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Ok. This is shades of Wild Wild Country but this is an epic burn
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For what it’s worth:
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Very little. And I thought she already had at the convention.
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yeah, but her name is huge within (and outside) the party. for those that didn’t pay attention to the dem convention, it could have impact.
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I’m just in full eyerolling mode right now. Fuck this shit.
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I returned my spouse to the voter registration rolls of his state, after a conversation with his father (“Everyone who can should vote,” and who am I to deny my sweet father-in-law?). My son and husband are voting in different counties, but whatever.
My son is also registered to vote in the October 24 provincial election. What a pity he can’t vote on behalf of most of the 46% of US electorate who figured they’d be fine with this current state of affairs, and losing liberal SCOTUS appointments.
But I got an American registered, and he’ll vote the most conscientious, considerate, sane option.
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Did Biden think of this, or did someone else? Either way, it’s brilliant.
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Looking for something non-taxing to watch on Netflix last night, thanks to a headache, and ended up somehow on \thesocialdilemma.
The revelations are nothing new to us here, or any BB regular or Doctorow fan. It’s aimed at the mainstream audience who doesn’t have a clue. The “narrative” parts are afterschool special level of hokey, but one concept stood out. Their proxy for political extremism? ExtremeCenter.
Sounds like your incredibly ridiculous, deliberately non-offensive afterschool special strawman, right? And it was probably meant like that, to avoid alienating right or left. Both-sidesism.
And it is, and yet…
If you look around at what people are saying in this election, if you really think about it, it’s true. The center isn’t just bland, wishy-washy folks who can’t commit. Many, maybe even most, are heavily committed to maintaining status quo. They are not regressive like the right. They don’t want to dismantle Roe v. Wade or Casey, they don’t want to outlaw gay marriage again. But they are not progressive, either. They refuse to even consider defunding the police, eliminating laws around mass incarceration except in the most unprogressive ways (“Let’s just put them all on GPS monitoring! That they need to pay for!”), rewriting laws that continue to allow for discrimination, especially not if it means something ends up in their backyard.
And they are aggressive. Look what happens if you confess to anything less than total enthusiasm for a Biden presidency. They swarm, they attack, they condemn. They use the same rhetoric as people who have proven dangerous. The same “with us or against us” mentality.
Center is not a reasonable compromise between two extremes. They are their own extreme, committed to moving neither backwards, nor forwards. Some even very, very committed to it. Dismiss them at your own risk.
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MLK was right that the people who think they are doing good and do nothing are the problem. There is the side of righteousness and the side of bigotry. There is no middle.
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