Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"

On 5/01/2025 6:36 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 11:30:07 -0500, bitrex wrote:
 

On 1/4/2025 11:09 AM, john larkin wrote:
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Fox News et al. generates a whole variety of fatuous nonsense and they
see what gets clicks and eyeballs and what doesn't, throw shit at the
wall and see what sticks.
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Then they feed the most highly-rated nonsense to Trump/Musk/Vance et
al who bring it up in their next speech or X post and the hoi polloi
are like "Wow, they know what's on our minds. they really understand
us!"

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You sneer at the people who keep you alive. Maybe they shouldn't
bother.

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PS: I can do my own tech support, plumbing, and car repair, and the
overwhelming majority of Americans aren't farmers. And robots and
migrant labor don't vote.

 "Migrant labor" certainly had the chance as there was nothing to stop them
or anyone else, especially in places like California where - AIUI - it's
illegal to ask for voter ID. So come one, come all: legals, illegals,
those who want to vote more than once and even dead people! No one turned
away. You can't get any more inclusive than that. :-)

Except that there's absolutely no evidence that this actually happens.
Whatever schemes the American electoral system has for identifying voters do seem to work. "Vote early and often" was a Tamany Hall jibe, but since then they do seem to have worked out how to stop people voting repeatedly.
The Republicans cheat by making it difficult to for legitimate voters to voting even once in areas of the electorate that don't normally have a big Republican turn-out. Jeb Bush won Florida for his brother by purging the electoral rolls in Democrat-leaning districts of anybody who even had the same surname as somebody with a felony conviction.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney