Re: We’re in the '20ies
The TimeGhost History channel has two good series about the interwar years; one focussing more on what happened in politics, economics and technology and one (Zeitgeist) looking at popular culture, art and so on.
There’s some really good stuff in there. A lot of what happened then is still influencing what happens right now.
Playlist (58 episodes):
Playlist (26 episodes):
On Friday afternoon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit handed down a shock decisiondeclaring that states may not count ballots that are mailed by Election Day but received shortly thereafter. By its own terms, the ruling applies only to Mississippi, throwing the legality of its voting procedures into question just 11 days before the election. Nationwide, however, 18 states and Washington D.C. accept late-arriving ballots; the 5th Circuit’s reasoning would render all these laws illegitimate and void, nullifying hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of ballots. The court’s obvious goal, aside from destabilizing a close election, is to tee up a Supreme Court decision that could wipe out all these laws in one fell swoop.
“Elon Musk Is Now
X’s Biggest Promoter
of Anti-Immigrant
Conspiracies
The billionaire owner is spreading debunked theories of undocumented voters swaying the US”
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-musk-x-election-influence-immigration/#:~:text=Elon%20Musk%20Is,swaying%20the%20US
A week before the election is over, let’s change the rules. Especially with DeJoy still running the USPS and quite deliberately fucking with delivery schedules. They really are pulling out all the crooked stops to make this election a fucking disaster! And Trump’s Trio at USSC is chomping at the bit to end voting anyway. And this is without even considering the apparently real proposal to award NC electors to Trump without a vote at all. Holy shit, i hope survive this! Get out and vote, in person if possible. At this point, i would urge in person only! But VOTE, AND VOTE BLUE!
There’s one thing that can fix this quickly.
IRS announces a rule change that taxes have to arrive by the 14th, not mailed by the 14th.
MAGA to the core.
This is probably the most important swing county in Pennsylvania.
Pressure on power is a necessary ingredient to successful democracy.
Yeah, because it’s not like fraud is illegal or anything.
I’m getting strong 6th Doctor vibes here…
Don Jr. called me.
He wants me to vote early because it’s convenient, secure, and it’s making the democrats demoralized.
That’s their motivation, demoralize people.
A couple hours later Debbie Stabenow called me, not once did she say anything bad about the republicans, she just told me about Kamala.
Such different approaches by each side.
And Dachau was the first “legal”, official, planned concentration camp under the central SS administration for camps. Basically the prototype for every camp after that.
Before that, there were the “early camps”. Some 40 extrajudicial sites of detention (“protective custody”), usually improvised by the local SA from as early as 3 March 1933 - 31 days after Hitler became chancellor, 3 days after the Reichstag fire.
The early camps were either disbanded or integrated into the centralised system; the power struggle between the SA and the SS is also at play here.
The votes are only beginning to be counted, but it is already clear that the Liberal Democratic Party (which is none of those things) will lose its majority in the Japanese Diet. It’s not yet clear if they will be able to hold on to the PM with their coalition partner, Komeito (which is literally the political wing of the Soka Gakkai Sect), but no other single party is likely to come close to a straight-up majority, so there are some interesting days to come.
