Yeah, I’d start with the original for sure. Stand Alone Complex is a good series…
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/snort
The optics around that are hilarious
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Is this from a novel? if so, which one?
Is this from a novel?
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It’s from S.M. Stirling’s Emberverse series of books. The first one is Dies the Fire and is pretty narrowly focused on what happens during an apocalyptic change in physics (all high energy-density physics is essentially slowed or shut down - no more gunpowder, no more electronics, no more internal combustion or steam engines) in a smallish geographic region (Oregon). As the series progresses, it eventually covers the worldwide impact and changes to the survivors.
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Specifically, somewhere between this one:
And this one:
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[Traditional autocrats] do not disturb the habitual rhythms of work and leisure, habitual places of residence, habitual patterns of family and personal relations. Because the miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to ordinary people who, growing up in the society, learn to cope. […] [Revolutionary Communist regimes] claim jurisdiction over the whole life of the society and make demands for change that so violate internalized values and habits that inhabitants flee by the tens of thousands.
some nameless conservative “thinker”
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He can announce they are cancelled, and maybe Red states won’t hold them, and his loyalists won’t go out and vote, but Biden will get the electoral college votes he needs, for sure. In fact, that may be the easiest path to the presidency.
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https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_composition_of_state_legislatures
Consider, for instance, the state of Wisconsin. Ten electoral votes that went for Trump in the last election.
But, the present governor (Tony Evers) is a democrat. In the Senate, WI is represented by Ron Johnson ® and Tammy Baldwin (D). In 2012, Wisconsin opted for Barack Obama. Purplish, with a good chance of going for Biden.
But both the Senate and Assembly are Republicans. Part of that is due to gerrymandering,
Wisconsin is not alone. Gerrymandering allows the party in power to maintain power in any election short of an absolute rout.
Biden can win this election, but not if the ballot is decided by entrenched elites.
Part of Biden’s campaign will be to run against the horrible malignant record of Donald Trump. In the event that elections are canceled, the legislators casting their votes are the very people who would surely be tossed out on their rears!
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But the elections can’t legally be cancelled, and a blue state governor won’t stand for cancelling them. Trump voters won’t vote so that they can declare the election invalid, but everyone else will. So, Biden gets the electoral college votes!
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The constitution doesn’t require a popular vote for the presidency. The red state legislatures will simply appoint the electors. (Florida’s legislature nearly did so in 2000.)
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An old post that is relevant again:
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This.
Original first explains a lot of background, Stand Alone Complex fleshes a lot more in, and its excellent in its own right. Especially the soundtrack.
Been watching anime for almost my entire life, before it was mainstream in US or even common- from the days of fansubbed tapes. Ghost In The Shell is classic stuff.
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