Post B3APehpRcphrPsy8yu by eriner@noauthority.social
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(DIR) Post #B39vxksTW5jZkXYOjw by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-02-09T22:50:42.391372Z
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ICE, Ukraine, Epstein... All bread and circuses. The only political issue that matters is securing elections.Without that, the public vote is compromised, and cannot be trusted on any issue. Both parties will continue to do whatever the people in power want: Filter tax money through massive fraud machines; Pass draconian laws that infringe rights and further tyranny. They will claim that they have a mandate to do so because without trustworthy elections, nobody will be able to prove otherwise.And the public vote that should be distrusted most of all is when they argue that the public doesn't want secure elections.
(DIR) Post #B39w9DGSJcmmyWEZgu by apropos
2026-02-09T22:53:18.798438Z
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@ryan the population hasn't been secured, so securing elections really doesn't matter anymore either.itsover.jpg
(DIR) Post #B39wSmkWbia8X2dDSy by cbrooklyn112@mk.spook.social
2026-02-09T22:53:48.704Z
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@ryan@bemrose.social Revolution is the only way. Voting been rigged for decades
(DIR) Post #B39wSo5TdIw4gJRSlM by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-02-09T22:56:48.466708Z
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@cbrooklyn112 I am insufficiently blackpilled to believe that is the only option we have remaining. Though I'm getting closer.
(DIR) Post #B39zAGR4JJ0exjOIng by pernia@cum.salon
2026-02-09T23:27:04.867894Z
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@apropos @ryan it really doesn't matter when most brown and asian people socialize as white anyway. "white genocide" comes more from a cultural decline than a demographic one.Niggas that say that "Epstein is a distraction", while the files have exposed so many conspiracies psyops, and modus operandi of the elites, are genuinely assets.
(DIR) Post #B3AEQEyH1ONGMlzyDY by eriner@noauthority.social
2026-02-10T02:18:03Z
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@ryan Do you support nationalizing elections?
(DIR) Post #B3AEnu06dmVQHH8eFE by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-02-10T02:22:20.461617Z
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@eriner The devil, as always, is in the details, and your two-word hypothetical proposal is woefully short on those. What are you getting at here?
(DIR) Post #B3AF6C5I92SNZkHnlY by eriner@noauthority.social
2026-02-10T02:25:39Z
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@ryan > woefully shortFunny, because that's your problem: "The only political issue that matters is securing elections".What does that even mean?And how are you going to do that if elections aren't nationalized?
(DIR) Post #B3AGfbRlwHhuKGFWjI by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-02-10T02:43:15.054834Z
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@eriner I was prioritizing a problem without offering any particular plan to fix it. I didn't provide details, because I wasn't proposing a solution. You may fairly criticize me for that, but not for failing to give details of something I didn't suggest.Of course you assumed a solution, then you asked if I "support" your given solution. I'm unable to answer that without either more detail, or some kind of extrasensory mind-reading ability.
(DIR) Post #B3AGsEOewzSibLob5M by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-02-10T02:45:31.880830Z
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@eriner As to the actual question of how to secure elections, the answer is complicated and nuanced, and I don't have all of the answers.As a rule, I don't tend to favor "nationalization" of anything, which is why I would want to review the details before pledging "support" of such a thing. In general, I think local control - as local as possible right down to the individual where feasible - produces the best outcome.But there are other solutions that haven't been tried at a national level, such as decertification of elections that aren't secure, or stripping representation from jurisdictions with incompatible laws.
(DIR) Post #B3AHJ42XZ4UMIcGQd6 by eriner@noauthority.social
2026-02-10T02:50:22Z
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@ryan > I was prioritizing a problem without offering any particular plan to fix itThat was my point.You're making vague complaints about "the only political issue that matters" without even defining the terms of your complaint.You still haven't answered THE question, what does "securing elections" mean?My point about nationalized elections was merely to preempt "We just need to change X" because whatever you may say, (counties in) California don't care.
(DIR) Post #B3AInjN4YpUV7x3Rjs by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-02-10T03:07:07.757504Z
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While it's true I'm on Pleroma, which affords more than 500 characters, it still doesn't provide enough to make every post a scientifically rigorous treatise, nor did I realize that I was expected to do so. The parts of the fedi that I federate with sport a higher-than-twitter average IQ, but I don't think even they demand that from every opening post.If you want to engage and don't think I've provided enough information, feel free to ask for clarification before whipping out the gotchas and accusations. If I want to be accused of bad faith in every reply, I'll follow Maggos again.For all you know, my proposed solution might have been "We need to jettison California and have a stronger country without them".(Actually, that's unlikely. I prefer not to invoke the name of the Statist God "We", as it too often leads to solutions with high popular appeal and almost no chance of working)
(DIR) Post #B3AJKbNDJiY1sYnKu8 by eriner@noauthority.social
2026-02-10T03:13:04Z
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@ryan > If you want to engage and don't think I've provided enough information, feel free to ask for clarification Is that not what you interpret this thread to be?> before whipping out the gotchas and accusationsIt wasn't a gotcha; I thought you had already thought the issue through and I was attempting to cut to the chase.I haven't accused you of anything except not answering the question, which you still haven't done.Nothing of what I've said is disparaging or in bad faith.
(DIR) Post #B3AK4cjAcAJVOq0eiu by ned@noauthority.social
2026-02-10T03:21:23Z
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@ryan>vote harder!I appreciate your naivety. It's adorable.
(DIR) Post #B3AKZr6rBzb8yvyuQa by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-02-10T03:27:01.888762Z
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@eriner > I thought you had already thought the issue throughI have not. At least not so far as a solution. I'm uncomfortable with the "we have to shoot our way out of this" solution, but that continues to be the only one that I see which doesn't involve the expansion of federal power - a solution I like even less, because of its limitless capacity for unintended side effects. The only other option I see at this point is a national divorce, or otherwise an end to the American experiment, which I also don't like.Like I said, it's a fair criticism that I came without a solution. I guess I came in hoping someone might propose something I hadn't seen. Barring that, you may simply accuse me of trying to "raise awareness".My original post came in response to seeing yet another thread about the political theater of the moment, and my thinking was merely that the specifics of what the government is doing with its illegitimate power is far less important than trying to address the fact that the power is illegitimate.
(DIR) Post #B3AM7cZVqlBJh437r6 by eriner@noauthority.social
2026-02-10T03:44:20Z
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@ryan > I came in hoping someone might propose something I hadn't seenHa, that's precisely why I replied to the post; I wanted that from YOU.With the core complaint (elections are not "secure" therefore they lack legitimacy) being vague, it's impossible to provide a solution.But as you noted, even if the problem was defined, the point I raised earlier (the inability to implement mitigations without simultaneously centralizing power) makes the issue intractable if not impossible to solve.
(DIR) Post #B3AMPHtvRT8inT1OCG by eriner@noauthority.social
2026-02-10T03:47:32Z
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@ryan long-winded way of saying "sorry pal, you're not voting your way out of this"
(DIR) Post #B3AMRhuTiEi22cQwsq by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-02-10T03:47:58.405255Z
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@eriner Not in a state with all-mail-in ballots I'm not.
(DIR) Post #B3AN8jguxv8o1Abn9s by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-02-10T03:55:44.810748Z
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@eriner The last option - and the one which seems at the moment most palatable to me is "kick the can down the road".It's not a solution per se, but I figure I've got maybe 25 more years left in this world. If the inevitable societal collapse can just wait until 2050, then it all becomes someone else's problem. Selfish, sure, but it's an effective cop-out.
(DIR) Post #B3AO8fh1vktLZWC6SW by eriner@noauthority.social
2026-02-10T04:06:56Z
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@ryan Direct representation was a mistake. Allowing women to vote was a mistake. Allowing negros to vote was a mistake. Allowing non-landowners to vote was a mistake. Allowing Jews to import infinity brownoids (to juice census numbers) for an increase in proportional representation was a mistake.Reversing ALL of these things is THE solution.However NONE of that can be accomplished through the existing parasitized system.
(DIR) Post #B3APDFkHviHcV1SzeC by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2026-02-10T04:18:54.700793Z
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So in your opinion, reversing all those things will make the ballot useful and not the slaves suggestion box? I dunno. If you read The Dictator's Handbook (2011 Mesquita, Smith), they argue reducing the selectorate is never beneficial; that systems become more autocratic the more you limit the franchise. Even in Heinlein's Starship Troopers, the franchise is limited to those who serve in the military, but the overarching system is autocratic. But it also shows fascism is a perfect valid system if you enemy are literally bugs.
(DIR) Post #B3APFPRSqkqX9RgquW by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-02-10T04:19:21.775017Z
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@eriner While I don't agree with all of those individual points, I do agree with the seeming impossibility of reversing them.At the very least, it would require a widespread shift in attitudes among people who've been public-school trained from a young age to believe that every one of those things you seek to eliminate is sacred and must not be questioned. How to do that without engaging in the same kind of centralized indoctrination that got us here?
(DIR) Post #B3APehpRcphrPsy8yu by eriner@noauthority.social
2026-02-10T04:23:56Z
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@djsumdog @ryan > So in your opinion, reversing all those things will make the ballot useful and not the slaves suggestion box?What was unclear?> systems become more autocratic the more you limit the franchiseGot it, everyone in the world can now vote in American elections for every county, state, and federal elections; let us expand the franchise worldwide.> Starship TroopersNever seen it.
(DIR) Post #B3AS4KhkQGmT8TiUSG by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2026-02-10T04:50:54.366575Z
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meh. I think Heinlein is overrated. The book was boring as fuck. The movie honestly does a much better job at even the political points than that terrible book. _Strange in a Strange Land_ is equally terrible, and shows Heinlein was probably a sexpest like the current Hollywood elites. > Got it, everyone in the world can now vote in American elections for every county, state, and federal elections; let us expand the franchise worldwide.Well the book doesn't make that ridiculous argument. The selectorate has to be for that particular government and their well defined region of influence. I personally don't think the vote is very effective to begin with, but I do think the book makes a good point about those affected by a leader should participate in selecting said leader and more participants tends to prevent more autocratic leadership (although not always).You mentioned the female vote. What's interesting is it originally just gave a family two votes. In a way it lent more strength to the family .. and if a family was divided, the vote of that family would just cancel itself out. It's a different situation where that vote is more individual now.
(DIR) Post #B3ATirU44M3OKvCpCS by eriner@noauthority.social
2026-02-10T05:09:30Z
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@ryan how do we reach deez keeedz?
(DIR) Post #B3AULKeq3AnTozabc8 by eriner@noauthority.social
2026-02-10T05:16:27Z
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@djsumdog @ryan @Killer_Mule In addition to correcting the mistakes I described, retards should not be allowed to vote.I don't care about the specifics, call it half, three quarters, two thirds of the normal distribution I don't care, but all representative government even in its purest non-corrupt theoretical form is retarded because of... retards.
(DIR) Post #B3AswJQ60rMjb4rNpI by nerthos@shitposter.world
2026-02-10T09:52:03.835979Z
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@djsumdog @ryan @eriner A system being autocratic is not that much of a problem if you're the autocracy, it's only a problem if the autocracy serves the interest of someone other than the core population.What he suggests forces the autocracy and the core population to be the same group, unless the population is massively retarded.
(DIR) Post #B3AzC82OhOWkebhTfc by meowski@fluf.club
2026-02-10T11:02:07.406362Z
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@ryan it's entirely possible to make a digital voting blockchain that is publicly auditable, private, cryptogrtaphically secure and open source. getting the government to implement that is another story so until this exists, i lean more toward paper ballots, hand counted, with observers and zero electronic machines at all, with photo ID required.