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Old 11-07-2024, 04:49 AM   #710 (permalink)
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Pretty quiet around the old homestead.
That was the most surprising thing to me. Hopefully indicative of a period of civility and goodwill towards others.

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"That's a good movie but it' not a great movie...

As a wise oracle once said "The future proves the past".
I loosely hold both frames as probable in my head; that DJT did not lose 2020 by commonly understood infractions of the legal framework (but acknowledging the 50+ so-called intelligence agents' fraudulent declaration of even more Russian disinformation about the laptop, and many other abuses of authority), and that he believed he had won legitimately.

I stayed up all night and observed what to any rational person appeared to be fraud occur. One political color would gain 20k votes to not even a single other vote for the opposition, at 3am (a very suspicious time), and that happened in many states. The explanation for why that played out has been explained to my satisfaction, though I'm willing to be wrong about it. It's about equal to my questioning of why building 7 collapsed, but I accept the given explanations for now.

Politics is necessarily dirty and appeals to the motivations of depraved individuals by nature, which is why I normally steer clear of it. Those thinking their will should be imposed upon others while gaining fame and fortune is a misalignment of motivations. That said, I did expect the popular to reflect the electoral college this time around (and said as much in a PM), and I wish to hear the explanations from those espousing "pure democracy" as morally justified or necessarily delivering better outcomes now.

My biggest complaint about the Founding Fathers at the moment is how their framework allowed the most removed and least connected unit of government to extract by far the most taxes and become the most important organizational unit to individuals and communities. The fact that we care more about who some dude in the District of Columbia is instead of who is mayor is shameful. Invest locally, because that's where investment is most impactful. The Founders did a heck of a job though for their time and risked it all. My complaint is that our system squabbles about how to allocate dysfunction instead of maximizing potential.

I'll propose my wildest and least thought through idea here; that federal taxation should not exceed state and local taxation. We should care more for who is mayor than who some dude in DC is. Defund the executive branch (and associated 3-letter bureaucracies)
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