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Ok, which homegrown militia did not pay the Trump admin enough money?

These numbers in Gaza are always undercounted. It counts direct acts of violence mostly, for people not still buried under rubble, and skips many deaths from lack of medicine, sickness, famine, complications etc.

Estimated deaths was about 200k many months ago, according to studies published in reputable newspapers. I have no clue how high it is now, has to be over 300,000 people at least

It’s still early days, most likely many years later it will be both worse and better than is feared by me

Took them long enough

Only a minority of any genocidal country really want to do it; the problem comes when most sort of go along with

A hundred years ago most food was grown a days walk away from a person. With no Diesel production or distribution, which some flairs knock out, there is no warehouse refrigeration.

Even with reserves, there are spare parts drying up. Trucks, ships and planes need constant work.

Some areas would get by, grains and beans can be moved without all that. Probably a huge percentage would survive. Barely

I think it’s part of the reason; the other part is that the representatives are simply not good people , and a significant portion of the population wants to kill people

Plenty of good journalists have worked there, often with high ideals. But that is not the whole picture. The NYT is soaked with blood and poverty for all the other things it has done. Almost everything we read as bad in history has had its proponents or motivators or mitigators working in the same hallways

The NYT has issues going back 7 generations, it’s not like it started to go downhill recently

I think they do not care and want as much money as possible ; I doubt many of them are capable of strong feelings of any sort

Rubber ducks, unite!

I don't think its a communication problem, I thought that about myself for a few years and finally worked through it. Deaf ears cannot hear. Supporting my contention, is that I have seen people try to improve methods for counting ballots in the USA, and invariably, they give up after shouting to the void after a few years, usually less than five.

Some movements, like getting Virginia to use paper ballots, are rare victories, and are invariably regional in scope.

So, temporarily ignoring who is doing what in cheating, and how prevalent it is, and for how long it has been happening ( I have been against Texas electronic voting enabling cheating for the past generation, and its not hacking, but that is my own starting point into this).

I think anyone who understands the overall issue can agree that the average political participate, or spectator, in the USA, has absolutely no concept of democracy, and is basically an interesting study in psychology. Because, it takes mental gymnastics to overlook exit polls being off, and to just trust whatever process is going on, which they are neither interested in, or curious about. And yet be so hyped up about how many people vote, and for who. Its just a contradiction on so many levels.

For me, its been a singularly frustrating experience. Because I have one foot in the camp of people who do not care, and one foot in the camp of people who do care. I think that is what makes people like me rare.

I feel this is such a complicated issue I do not understand at all. One would think that republicans would take interest in why their candidates loose in the primaries, or the democrats would want to think really hard about the evidence coming from the famous close votes to control the senate or house. But, no.

I came from the computer side of things, with my criticism of voting software. For a long time I tried to talk about software. I figured early on that people were, like you described, just tuning me out. But, after I tried to change tack, and skip any technology or math, there was still no interest.

Over the years I have had many discussions and I concluded this was simply a taboo subject for those who are active in politics. However, those who are cynical, and not participating, readily see the value and truth, but see little value of the knowledge. We have no ready made audience for such discussions.

For a long time I just felt like there was something simply broken in political discussion. There is a wide disconnect between those who participate in American politics and everyone else. Its not math, its not science, its faith. We are challenging the faith of the politically active. What does that make us? Heretics.

We are heretics who speak of things that, if taken seriously, would invalidate the majority of USA elections. The truth would burn the country down. Its remarkable there is such tolerance as seen, and its just people ignoring the few who see the Emperor has no clothes.

And we will be ignored here, there, everywhere, for at least a generation or two, if not longer.

I’ve been trying to raise awareness about exit polls being off for years, as well as many states flunking statistical tests with precincts. All the major news in the USA stopped using exit polls to predict many races.

It’s not rocket science, and the numbers can be run by most people with a high school math level and a small level of programming. The raw data is readily available from both government and organizations.

But, this has no interest for any party activists, across the spectrum. Over a decade of trying did convinced me Americans who were politically active really do not want to know.

deliberate sabotage. People make a lot of money when large institutions fail

There is no way from here in the USA now to Scandinavian balance, using any path of democracy.

The title is click bait but the article is decent

I read some books by Alice Miller that discussed some childhoods of authoritarian rulers and they were all of unloved. They had not one adult stick up for them, be their advocate or helper, during their childhood years.

Many of us as children have been unwanted or unloved by our caregivers. Most of us had at least one adult: an uncle, grandmother, teacher etc, who truly tried to help at least once.

What the monsters in history had in common is an absence of evidence of even that happening for them. And their revenge as adults was terrible.

Cool theory. But should not work if the universe is much larger than what can be seen though? Unless it’s just our visible part of the universe is rotating in a mind boggling large structure? And why not? All matter clumps, and a huge universe should have countless structures that are the size of all we know

I have thoughts this is an excellent sample of those who watch Fox News