Yeah, we’re coming into a pretty horrible timeline. I’d have preferred the one where the Brooks Brothers Riot failed. But that ship has long sailed.

This timeline is going to be an authoritarian nightmare with random high points where some rich asshole is murked by an Adjustor copycat.

Part of the problem is that you literally cannot build up a third party under First Past the Post voting.

The thing is, the current most popular alternative voting system, RCV is just as bad for third parties.

RCV was first invented in the 1780s by the Marquis de Condorcet, under the name Instant Runoff. He wrote about it, mostly to highlight it’s problems.

Like the fact that under IRV the majority preferred candidate can easily lose the election.

And that’s the tip of the iceberg when it comes to flaws in IRV.

Thankfully it’s been over 200 years since then, and better voting systems have been designed.

STAR is as close to the magical best system designed to date.

If we had STAR for all elections, plus voting day as a national holiday, we’d be in a vastly better place.

The thing is, Left vs Right is already a measure of authoritarian vs Democratic.

The original use of the terms comes from the French Revolution. There was a vote on if the King should have an absolute veto over laws passed by the assembly. Those who said no sat to the left of the Speakers podium. Those who said yes sat on the right.

The reason why left and right were applied to economic policy was because Marx described Communism as a form of extreme Democracy. Whereas Capitalism concentrates power into the hands of a select few.

It’s still a measure of where the power rests. In the hands of the people or the hands of the state/leader.

You can break it down to dozens of categories, but it’s all authoritarian vs Democratic in the end.

As a note, Lenin style single party “communism” is about as far from Marx’s ideal as you can get.

Dictators and Kings are all the enemies of the people.

Ah yes, the Noem Chomsky. Famously when he was defending Pol Pot’s regime.

It has, the copycats are coming.

It won’t be exactly targeted, but more rich assholes will be murked.

Ah, Cato the Elder. He had a good cheesecake recipe, but was otherwise a complete jackass.

A lot of people in this sub just need a radicalization event.

Luigi was radicalized by pain.

No, but it’s the same sort of pattern that you see in mass shooters.

Disaffected young men. Educated, but with minimal meaningful job prospects. Little to no family, or no close ties.

The sort of young man who wouldn’t mind dying, or killing, for a cause, even if that cause is just gaining people’s attention.

In the US, those sorts of young men do all sorts of things, many live productive lives. But almost every single mass shooter is one of those young men. Luigi is one of those young men, That’s why the comparison is apt.

He just decided to kill a rich asshole instead of a bunch of randos. All because his particular radicalization was via pain instead of the usual right wing internet shitholes.

People who know this shit have been through Mangione’s social media feeds.

https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione

The guy likely did it. The guy’s social media history puts him right in that “potential mass shooter” territory, but one more radicalized by pain rather than the right-wing shitholes of the internet.

But the part no one’s talking about yet are the copycats to come. Because this guy got attention for it. Accolades even. That’s part of what mass shooters want. Attention. Accolades are a wet dream for them.

At least this will be better than when they were murdering children for the shock value.

So yeah, I think “Rich asshole murdered” will become more common. If only the richest asshole in whatever Podunk little town the mass shooter was from.

And yet, I can’t say that it will be a completely bad thing. If the mass shootings must happen, (and America apparently says they must) then I’d rather it be a rich asshole who bites it than a classroom full of grade schoolers.

As if Trump will share the forced labor.

No, this is an end run around the 14th and 13th amendments.

He’s going to round up the brown people and reinstall slavery.

Asian? It depends on skin color and bank balance.

Arabic… Isn’t on the chart.

It mattered in several states. Missouri added a right to abortion to the state constitution. Even as the people voted for the assholes behind the ban in the first place.

Vaporization would certainly slow the material. It’s transitioning kinetic energy into thermal.

Also, the vaporized iron would disperse outward rather than stay coherent.

The simple truth is, the entire case against Hunter Biden was politically motivated from the start.

He paid the back taxes and the gun charges are normally laughed out of court.

This was always a Republican prosecutor wanting to make a name for themselves, and with Trump taking power, well, we all know how vindictive Trump is.

I don’t expect this pardon to matter much, Trump and the Republicans don’t care about law or tradition or reality. They care about power, and are less than 2 months away from it.

Yeah. No one cares if you’re rambling in a comment. Just be interesting enough that someone can pause their doom scrolling to read it.

I personally have about 5 subjects where I can chime in with fun (to me) little facts.

Or essays on the subject…

I’m not sure where they got those numbers.

All nuclear waste produced to date isn’t 500-1500 cubic meters.

As to storage. Just bury it again. We dug it up, we can bury it. There are a few places that are currently doing just that.

Or, here a wild idea. Just burn the waste. It’s something like 90% unburned fuel, just reprocess it and burn it.

He’s tried tariffs before, and had the entire Republican party tell him how shit an idea they are.

But he might not believe them. He is pretty stupid and stubborn.

But I’m thinking he wants to crash the economy to buy everything at pennies on the dollar.

He understands just fine. He wants to replace the taxes that he doesn’t pay with tariffs. A tax on poor people.

The tariffs will also crash the economy, letting Trump and Musk buy up large parts of the country for pennies on the dollar.

I’ve seen some of the same estimates. I settled on 2K because that’s what is estimated to have survived the To a supervolcano. Or rather the non-African population that survived.

Homosapiens in Africa actually did quite well comparatively.

It’s quite a bit less functional. There have been dozens of high profile outages and service interruptions.