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Tag: politics
Modi influence in the UK
it seems the balance of power is reversing, 68 years after independence.
Mr Cameron has plenty to gain as well. At the general election in May, for the first time the Tories polled 1m votes from among ethnic minorities, the overwhelming majority of whom were Asians. Among Hindus and Sikhs, the Tories even outpolled Labour. Putting in a Wembley appearance alongside the popular Mr Modi probably won’t do the prime minister’s own political ratings any harm either.
India constitution
slow growth and many of India’s other problems can be traced back to its extractive constitution, which was largely inherited from the British
Hitler drug use
Stauffenberg’s assassination attempt in 1944 wounded Hitler more deeply than he let on, and he needed his dealer-doctor more than ever. He implored Dr. Morell for Eukodal. By winter of that year, Hitler had “long known no more sober days,” Ohler writes. Worse, “Morell’s supplies were dwindling,” and on April 17, 1945, a frenzied Hitler threatened to shoot Dr. Morell. The doctor fled, but was caught by the Americans and intensively interrogated. He died in Munich 2 years later, a victim of mental illness.
for more on political leaders on drugs, see JFK
Transit strike upside
of the regular commuters affected by the strike, either because certain stations were closed or because travel times were considerably different, ~5% decided to stick with their new route once the strike was over.
McAfee runs for president
Can this election season get any more entertaining?
McAfee has received 1000s of emails from people encouraging him to run. But just hours before the FEC filing went up, he was “still in a quandary about whether to run myself or find someone else for my party.”
2015-09-23: Sorry for the “business” “insider” link but this is kinda intriguing. His platform: Switch the us to metric, abolish TSA, abolish border controls:
We’re in a cyber war and we’re losing. The Chinese are invading and we don’t even see it. We are in a world that depends upon a science that demands metrics and we have 5280 feet in a length. And we have 212 degrees as the boiling point of water. What madness!
Debate BLR
this has all the substantial points covered.
Barefoot Secession
Upstate Secessionists Demand Freedom From City They Mooch Off Of. this is a great idea. NYC would do much better, as well as singapore per capita if managed properly.
On Sunday, a few 100 people rallied in Bainbridge, New York, a village of 3300 between Binghamton and Oneonta, to promote the idea of upstate secession. The protest was organized by a group called the Divide New York Caucus, which wants to sever the state above Rockland and Westchester counties. Because actually seceding would require state legislative and congressional approval, man-with-a-dream John Bergener Jr. proposes divvying the state into 2 autonomous regions through a voter referendum, calling the new one New Amsterdam, and leaving a figurehead legislature in place at the state level. The pie-in-the-sky scheme is no mere intellectual exercise, its architect insists.
1B Americans
Interesting speculation:
an open-borders America of a billion people would, in substance, be as different a polity from the polity that the United States of America is today, as the Roman Empire of the 2nd century AD was from the Roman Republic of the 3rd century BC
2020-02-22: It’s disappointing that open borders are outside the Overton window: Restrictions on immigration are the equivalent of leaving “trillion-dollar bills on the sidewalk.”
Trolling confederates
It turns out that people on Confederate Facebook are not very good at the internet. Our friend Lowen dialed Chris to investigate. He claimed to be a guy named Roger who’d heard Chris was a Northerner who’d joined the group to troll. Understandably, Chris was upset about this, and claimed to have never left the state of Texas. “Roger” told Chris he’d heard that he had the state flag of “Maine or New York” on his truck, that he worked at Dunkin’ Donuts, and that he’d voted for Obama “both times from a polling station in Brooklyn, New York.” Chris was very upset that people were spreading these vicious rumors about him, and told “Roger” that his “friends in high places” would slap the trolls with prison time for their actions.
Once I was in charge of the group I decided to take it in a new direction. The Confederate flag, I felt, had become a toxic brand. And all this South-rising-again business was a sure loser with swing voters. A top-down rebranding was in order. After rigorous focus-group testing, I decided to align the group with LGBT rights, Michelle Obama, Judaism, miscegenation, and the victorious Juche ideology. And that is how “confederate pride, heritage not hate” became “LGBT Southerners for Michelle Obama and Judaism.”
trolling for a good cause, the best kind of trolling.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 