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  • I genuinely don’t know how we got into a discussion about gerrymandering from the original topic.

    If you don't know, it's because you don't WANT to know. You're full of DON'T LEAVE!!! but have zero, absolutely nothing, nada, zilch to offer by way of suggesting productive solutions for anyone who stays.

    That's how we got into gerrymandering: me taking it from your theory to my present-day reality by way of response, and you insisting that "Gerrymandering can be overcome with higher voter turnout" to a person whose vote ALREADY DOESN'T COUNT.

    What the fuck does that accomplish at all. Seriously. What does telling me "people should vote more" to a person whose vote, and whose neighbors votes, ALREADY DON'T COUNT. What good do you think you're accomplishing by addressing me as though I live in the democracy you think I should be in, and not the actual reality I DO live in, right now?

    That is seriously the most bloviated, pompous, solipsistic, self-righteous, unnecessary, useless, loser waste of letters strung together than most people can accomplish in a month. Congratulations!

    I don’t really care

    NOW you don't, but you surely do when you're bolding your useless words and accusing others of not reading them.

    You're arguing in bad faith. I don't have anymore time for you.

  • I've already read far too much of what you wrote. Let me bold MY point for you:

    America -- all of it -- CAN be [Nazi Germany or whatever fascist hellhole you want to use as an example] with NOBODY MOVING ANYWHERE AT ALL . . . and that is exactly the direction we are going in right now.

    As of two years ago, my vote does not matter because the Rs decided that the R that won my district by a slender margin (BECAUSE we Ds were out voting) did not win by a wide enough margin, so they shifted the purple parts of that congressional district to a solidly D district two years ago.

    I can vote D all day long, and it will never change that now R-forever city.

    It's ALREADY done in my district. I ALREADY do not have representation. It DOES NOT MATTER IF I MOVE.

    You're all butthurt because you think you've been the target of comment "gotcha" but I can assure you it's nothing like the "gotcha" I got two years ago from my red state representatives who want my vote with all the passion they want a case of crotch rot.

    The only question left here, then, is whether YOU can read what I wrote. I genuinely don't think so.

  • Fighting fascism is not going to be easy, convenient, safe, or anything like that, but it’s still worth it.

    Then the fascists should start fighting it, no? Why are you not pointing your multiple comments at them?

    Why is it up to the rest of us to clean up their messes when they can so easily just stay in place, destroy everything they don't like, and create the POC-free, LGBTQIA-free, non-Christian-free, democracy-free "Gilead" utopia they long for?

    We already have historical evidence to tell us exactly how this is going to end. I don't want to be there when it does -- and it inevitably will. Badly.

  • Florida is not Nazi Germany.

    No, it's Weimar Germany, when the course of that trajectory was still building but the opportunities for changing course were narrowing rapidly despite many peoples' best efforts. And in Florida, as they already have a fascist state government, it very soon won't even be Weimar Germany anymore. It WILL be "Nazi Germany."

    You thought by sating "Nazi Germany" you were picking a laughably ridiculous extreme, without having any idea that everyone else is way ahead of you and "Nazi" is no longer extreme, it's looming reality. Get your history straight, and do better at picking metaphors that don't make other peoples' points for them.

  • So you were talking about your one time ORDER pad. Got it. Best get back to work, kid.

  • stenography (hiding meaning in something else)

    Steganography? I'm assuming your autocorrect took over here: the manual form of steganography is exactly what I am talking about. Though come to think of it, I don't know anyone who still uses, or can even read, the various forms of shorthand (stenography) that used to be so common; it could work as a hidden language these days. I bet some of the older ladies among us who were secretaries in the 50s and 60s could, though. When I was young I saw a book about learning it; it's actually pretty brilliant and an elegant use of sound notation.

    You nailed it with the lead pipe analogy, though, IMO. Truer words were never spoken. If the people watching never find you to be of any importance, if you are dismissed as too stupid or too sorry to deserve further attention, if you are seen as a waste of resources, you've conquered all the tech and cryptography and AI/ML and pattern analysis and digital surveillance an entire government can throw at you before they've even had a chance to start.

  • Lol, no. But okay. You may want to check out another post I wrote above. It's not about making your code uncrackable, it's about taking your coded material out of the digital sphere altogether, making cops toss your home for it instead of sitting on their donut-eating coffee slurping asses while they comfortably browse your online life, and understanding that thugs tossing houses are almost invariably non-intellectual brutes who would far rather laugh at a guy whose sole complaint about life is not getting laid instead of closely examining pages and pages of sloppy, self-pitying, handwritten whines for slight inconsistencies that hide the real truth.

    He said that this was all for his own reference and not anyone else's, and here you are talking about a one time pad, lol. Not only does he not need this for communication, if they find a one-time pad he's just signed up for some torture. Old school book code is best: you're out of the digital sphere, everyone has books, if they even suspect book code they're going to have expend all the manhours and effort and budget to compare all your books with everyone else's books, plus you don't have to ALL learn fucking Navajo or Tolkien's Elven script in your little cell of revolutionary homies, lol.

  • None of that matters when you keep your secrets on paper, in plain but befuddled language, and disguise them as trash.