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Family doc, Twitter refugee, son of refugee.
#COVIDisAIRBORNE
FP, thinks like a scientist.
Science is an unforgiving mistress
We're in Germany 1933
Mors Omnibus Tyrannis
The outrage is to distract us from Muskrats looting the US Treasury
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By a draft dodger's <s>Executive Order</s>
Royal Decree!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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They took his walker away! WTF?
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Detention wo process is Tyranny.
Fascism came to America wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...
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3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
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Felon's Executive Order:
VA can refuse vets based on politics, condition, or married status!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Right- only 5 Dems.
Still, that makes 60 ways to rank yr first 3, making it hard to tally results by hand.
And still leaves it subject to the problem that having a low ranked candidate drop out can change the outcome.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%2...
"While the impossibility theorem shows all ranked voting rules must have spoilers, the frequency of spoilers differs dramatically by rule. Plurality-rule methods like choose-one and ranked-choice (instant-runoff) voting are highly sensitive to spoilers"
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Every RANKED voting method fails one or another desirable criteria =Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.
EG, eliminating a low ranked candidate can change the winner.
To avoid this, use Approval voting.
www.investopedia.com/terms/a/arro...
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That does mean exposing INDIVIDUAL BALLOTS- with 10 candidates the number of possible choices is
11 factorial= 39,916,800
And 990 ways to rank 3 candidates.
W Approval voting, you just total the number of votes for each candidate (vote for all you APPROVE of) and most votes wins.
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“We choose the sexual predator with strong political connections”
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Sure, why not, when did "serious objections [about] ethics and conduct" ever lead to bad governance. smdh.
Administrative and consensus procedures can correct for inexperience & policy diffs, but as we learn more every day, our systems are just not set up to stop a brazenly corrupt liar.
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition, right?
Hard to believe that arrests of elected representatives and judges, coupled with troops in LA, combined with rhetoric about “liberating” California (etc) hasn’t shocked them in to recognizing an authoritarian coup.
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Clyburn made a deal to anoint the "Senator from MasterCard"
to squash Bernie Sanders.
Biden did good stuff in office, but didn't want to rock the boat.
It's killing ppl wo college, but Harris said,
"Everything is fine, no changes needed."
One reason she lost.
tinyurl.com/NYT2020DeathsOfDespair
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Donors make policy, and manipulate identity politics to get their way. Growing influence since ~1972, w Powell Memo.
In 2020, Clyburn anointed "The Senator from MasterCard"
and squashed the guy who was saying "Tax the Rich!!".
www.bbc.com/news/blogs-e...
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Did you plagiarize the WSJ? 🤨 🙄
It's like don't call a duck a duck just cuz it waddles, has feathers & is quacking.
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"Why attacks on Democrats are not terrorism"
-- by the NY Times editorial board
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What a sentence.
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Senator Mike Lee sent out a twitter post mocking the assassination of a Democratic lawmaker. Governor Tim Walz said that MAGA republicans are weird.
Why both parties have a civility problem.
by Lisa Lerer
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President Zelensky, Don't say the Americans, say the trump administration. Most Americans want you to beat the hell out of Putins' regime .
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No, the ORANGE FASCIST asked you not to strike his buddy Putin's energy infra.
The AMERICAN PEOPLE are with you.
Burn Russia to the ground.