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  • Sure he needs to be taxed into dust. But he doesn’t own the WaPo because it’s making him rich. He runs it because it’s a propaganda machine for him.

    He lost 10% of his subscribers, almost immediately, when he tried to use it that way openly. Which says:

    • it’s now a 10% less effective propaganda machine (and that number will keep growing)
    • it’s possible that it was never effective in the first place

    Given those two propositions, he might just unload it, which would be nice for the rest of us.




  • xantoxis@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    (from the point of the vote counters) They know because there are individualized bar codes on every envelope. They will just count every ballot that arrives intact. If they scan one and it’s from a voter who has already been counted, they’ll have to figure out if that’s voting fraud or a legitimate consequence of an act of arson/other problem–and it’s almost never voting fraud.

    (from the point of view of the voter) assume your ballot was destroyed, get another one, vote again.




  • xantoxis@lemmy.worldto> Greentext@lemmy.mlCommie trek
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    21 days ago

    None of these things are true? OP is a dumbfuck.

    • It’s not communism. There is simply no scarcity, and therefore no need to manage distribution of resources.
    • Federation officers are bound by the dress requirements of the job they freely chose. They are shown, many times, deciding to quit that life and do something else instead, and are usually supported for doing so. (This act is almost always accompanied by an immediate change in the way they dress.) Anyone not working for the Federation is shown wearing whatever tf they want; as are federation officers when they’re off-duty.
    • Food is synthetic but you’re certainly not required to eat it, and characters are shown craving it for how good it is, so it’s CLEARLY not flavorless. Many of voyager’s subplots revolve around having more replicator rations, or getting more.
    • “Free will is forbidden” ok did you just make this up while you were jerking yourself off?
    • “All humans are automatons” this must have been something you shouted as you came