“In a dire Trumpian future, you’re almost certainly not going to have an end to elections. They still have elections in Hungary, Turkey, even Russia. What you’d have is stuff like this, states acting as what amounts to an active belligerent in the political process by mobilizing state power.”
“It’s already happening in Florida.”
#fascism #media #Election2024 #trump #desantis
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Voting Wars Open a New Front: Which Mail Ballots Should Count? nytimes.com/2024/10/08/us/elec…
JD Vance Owns Company That Sells American Real Estate to Foreign Investors?
The Ohio senator's venture capital fund invested in the app AcreTrader.
Isn't this election interference? and illegal? Elon Musk is paying for votes.
How does this man have government contracts?
And silent from the DNC and Democrats.
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I do think some of the authors on #IndieWebSocial should look at setting up author tags now that this server is upgraded to 4.3.
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Is Starmer worse than Truss?
#uk #poll #digitspolls #politics #uk2024
(poll started just for fun, on 2024-10-09, which, btw, nearly twice as long since labour "won" in the general election on 4th July, than Liz Truss's 50 days.)
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heh, seeing this again, after that fastest ever growing popular poll... to hold another general election, in desperation to be rid of him.
... his father was a tool maker.
The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump
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Am I living in a movie???
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The ex-major recalled: “For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery.
“This is what they exploited"
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Interesting project presented at LIVE 2024 which uses SCI and rewrite-clj as part of the libraries
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And I have long thought that one of the most amusing aspects of Convoy is that it is responsible for Mannheim Steamroller.
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