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  • All the racist stuff and culture war BS is a distraction.

    It is absolutely not. One of the ways Germany was able to fund itself during WW2 was by displacing and murdering “undesirables,” then stealing their property. Eliminate people who don’t fit your view of “good citizen” because of their ethnicity and redistribute their wealth to those who remain.

    I just figured out why it’s called National Socialism.






  • RCV would be great, most definitely. However:

    “But the defect that prevents independent presidential candidates West and De la Cruz from appearing on Georgia’s ballot does not pertain to the number of signatures acquired; it is that West’s electors and De la Cruz’s electors filed no nomination petitions at all,” Justice Sarah Warren wrote.

    There’s a process for ballot access, which includes the candidate’s electors filing paperwork. They didn’t. Counting votes for these two candidates’ would be allowing ballot access to a candidate who didn’t meet the prerequisites. This court ruling appears appropriate, based on information I have at hand.



  • I would think there would need to be some kind of trigger for when retail prices for classes of products “necessary for survival” - think food, clothing, shelter, energy kind of things - increases faster than inflation by some threshold over some period of time. Tripping that flag would result in some kind of more detailed human investigation, because maybe there are extenuating circumstances that would reasonably justify a price increase of that kind. There could also be percentage limits to price increases in certain situations. Different from fixed price controls, which are definitely a bad idea (see: The French Revolution), rather a kind of mandated slowing down of such increases to allow the economy a chance to adjust without having inflation go crazy.

    To be clear, I have only just poured this all out of my own head. None of it comes from political or economic sources, and my ideas could very well have unintended consequences, because I am neither a politician nor an economist.