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  • Sure he needs to be taxed into dust. But he doesn’t own the WaPo because it’s making him rich. He runs it because it’s a propaganda machine for him.

    He lost 10% of his subscribers, almost immediately, when he tried to use it that way openly. Which says:

    • it’s now a 10% less effective propaganda machine (and that number will keep growing)
    • it’s possible that it was never effective in the first place

    Given those two propositions, he might just unload it, which would be nice for the rest of us.




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    19 days ago

    (from the point of the vote counters) They know because there are individualized bar codes on every envelope. They will just count every ballot that arrives intact. If they scan one and it’s from a voter who has already been counted, they’ll have to figure out if that’s voting fraud or a legitimate consequence of an act of arson/other problem–and it’s almost never voting fraud.

    (from the point of view of the voter) assume your ballot was destroyed, get another one, vote again.






  • I have a very cynical reason. If you look at what most religions say about it (against), you have to wonder why they all agree on it and it seems to me that if you off yourself, you’re not supporting the team. When there weren’t many humans, you really needed a bunch of team players on your religion making more babies, and the dead ones can’t carry out your crusades.

    Now we put capital above religion, but it’s the same thing: we need workers for our factories. We need babies to become workers for our factories. Dead people can’t make cars or babies.