tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24802548923821685252024-03-04T22:01:13.842-08:00Digital Culture and Political PornographyThese are the most exciting, dangerous, complex, strange times in history. This blog is my attempt to navigate through it.DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.comBlogger375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-82140109622678235192023-12-08T01:08:00.003-08:002023-12-08T01:08:15.414-08:00George Santos: Made in America<p> In 48 hours, George Santos lined up more than his annual Congressional salary ($174K) by joining Cameo. (<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/george-santos-made-more-2-days-cameo-than-congress-salary-2023-12" target="_blank"><b>source</b></a>)</p><p>America is a failure.</p><p>Think of all the lessons you were taught growing up about the "American Dream" and what it took to achieve it: honesty, perseverance, hard work, playing by the rules, being your best self, treating others the way you want to be treated. Virtually none of this turned out to be true.</p><p>Observe how some of the most honest, hardest working people are almost always broke... while top-to-bottom, total frauds like Santos and Trump lead lavish lives and fall back upon an endless supply of golden parachutes - furnished by a society obsessed with celebrity and transfixed by performative, outrageous behavior as the modus operandi.</p><p>People might be tempted to invoke retributive metaphysics like "karma" or "Judgement Day," but it's fairly obvious that these are just moral fantasies fed to the public to mollify their discontent and make them feel better about how often vice and avarice pay, while modesty and virtue yield only squalor, sweat, and hardship.</p>DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-90389102517376842572023-07-03T19:30:00.003-07:002023-07-03T19:30:59.269-07:00My Website Proposal for 303 CreativeAfter one of the most egregious <b><a href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-gay-rights-website-designer-aa529361bc939c837ec2ece216b296d5" target="_blank">Supreme Court rulings</a></b> in the history of public accommodations, it was <a href="https://303creative.com/contact/" target="_blank"><b>worth a try</b></a>.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5WeBcAMVWOiSlFV6rqYqINqp_tNKGaHvS6WKJ1N1AuhPvv7ly5gEz14JHrghz3axExjKBuhWgQY1P4Jx1bFEgtNoyP8wW8letQL8AVbJEIL7ygNyqYqpe66XvIKsS8BIxn87ZTudp7jKH428a268OQXCo4gBw3Kuzr2oJcywMq15Q0RpmSwAgKBwqIRnF/s1656/303.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1656" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5WeBcAMVWOiSlFV6rqYqINqp_tNKGaHvS6WKJ1N1AuhPvv7ly5gEz14JHrghz3axExjKBuhWgQY1P4Jx1bFEgtNoyP8wW8letQL8AVbJEIL7ygNyqYqpe66XvIKsS8BIxn87ZTudp7jKH428a268OQXCo4gBw3Kuzr2oJcywMq15Q0RpmSwAgKBwqIRnF/w640-h368/303.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-80067766796087466782022-12-17T17:19:00.003-08:002022-12-17T17:20:07.545-08:00The Best Grift, Believe Me<p>Isn't it obvious by now that:</p><p>Trump's entire effort to run for president (which he never intended to or planned on winning), serving as president (as the host of a taxpayer-funded reality TV show where outrage was the Gross Domestic Product), and now selling $100 NFTs (of himself Photoshopped as a superhero) to the people who have been complaining about gas prices and inflation the loudest</p><p>...is just to monetize anger from the most insecure, gullible, xenophobic, and/or ideologically desperate people?</p><p>Because I think it's obvious.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeagNWlh7nHCel2T2GtyNTyxOseRlqoLpEdaTuZIxFYTG2QA6NzxNR-AgNE0h5q2Y9kV2oIXnG-9PPW1UExTNuKdeTc_9F3QPgDdksOdo8BxQ8OURBYMPzwG59oqFiNeEUCmw-3lnAsdHzjlQBnYSUS6CmaxN0B3PW4Z-iBkd4nhGSsFFA8y8raeQgvA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="926" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeagNWlh7nHCel2T2GtyNTyxOseRlqoLpEdaTuZIxFYTG2QA6NzxNR-AgNE0h5q2Y9kV2oIXnG-9PPW1UExTNuKdeTc_9F3QPgDdksOdo8BxQ8OURBYMPzwG59oqFiNeEUCmw-3lnAsdHzjlQBnYSUS6CmaxN0B3PW4Z-iBkd4nhGSsFFA8y8raeQgvA=w640-h310" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-53410084944970366232022-09-02T16:11:00.005-07:002022-09-02T16:11:48.644-07:00Dark Brandon Rises<p>MAGA told Sleepy Joe, "let's go, Brandon!" Then he evolved into Dark Brandon and racked up political wins all summer. Now MAGA is crying about nationwide losses at the ballot and being called "semi-fascist" by Dark Brandon. It's sure looking like a "Remember, Remember, the 8th of Roe-vember" election this fall.</p><p>If the Republican Party wasn't actively working to dismantle democracy, this would almost be entertaining.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbCoz4hyNZIM5Bgl0dW9GX73I5y9R8F0Ec44DkQLrDMq5qE0xyHfYNfYovmUhra-7JjU1Ex0IFMPem7DI0p0rtePWsGGBpel8ikTt6KaWiETTw1U8Y4J1Kz8l0bGAmx9q8nJYQXAYLSaK5AyrLWKaKEMu-PEbqfy0IRkJ8Kyv3_BoDC97hDk2QnSBXDg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbCoz4hyNZIM5Bgl0dW9GX73I5y9R8F0Ec44DkQLrDMq5qE0xyHfYNfYovmUhra-7JjU1Ex0IFMPem7DI0p0rtePWsGGBpel8ikTt6KaWiETTw1U8Y4J1Kz8l0bGAmx9q8nJYQXAYLSaK5AyrLWKaKEMu-PEbqfy0IRkJ8Kyv3_BoDC97hDk2QnSBXDg=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-18974310095689538032022-06-27T15:47:00.007-07:002022-06-27T15:47:41.495-07:00Federalism Failures<p>It's amazing to me that conservatives so often fail to see medical privacy as a fundamental right which one has regardless of which state they happen to live in at the time. Why should the people of Missouri, Connecticut, or anywhere else get to vote on whether a person can choose the reproductive healthcare that they determine with their doctor is best for them?</p><p>This "leave it up to the states" mantra is a failed federalism which leaves fundamental issues of bodily autonomy and individual liberty up to the whims of highly gerrymandered state legislatures. It didn't work for interracial marriage, it didn't work for segregated schools, it didn't work for sexual privacy, it didn't work for same sex marriage, and it won't work for medical privacy.</p>DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-60146423191534404722021-11-13T21:00:00.006-08:002021-11-14T14:50:45.339-08:00Have You been to Facebook Jail for Justice?<p>I saw someone making bigoted and homophobic remarks about the first openly-gay U.S. governor, Jared Polis, on (of all things) a Facebook thread about Britney Spears finally getting her conservatorship ended. After reading her hateful message to Gov. Polis about being married to another man, I told the person I wondered exactly how ugly of a human being she is and flagged her post for hateful speech. Facebook updated me by confirming her comment was hateful speech and removed it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGlxyNJgtflOV8elc4RPG_hMPS7xdbXvoJI1s24t4po5iN5xFSNREexfzVE3FwSUVxvI3sIj7Di02yXMEvoEy9nmrKt59kBsMNK_JowmxHX4fssl5Sfo7vJxDyPjs5XgF_c06LPMcpVNk/s986/1+FB+community+standards.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="986" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGlxyNJgtflOV8elc4RPG_hMPS7xdbXvoJI1s24t4po5iN5xFSNREexfzVE3FwSUVxvI3sIj7Di02yXMEvoEy9nmrKt59kBsMNK_JowmxHX4fssl5Sfo7vJxDyPjs5XgF_c06LPMcpVNk/w400-h285/1+FB+community+standards.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>But Facebook also said I was harassing and bullying her by asking her this question and put me in Facebook Jail for 24 hours.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdZFBgOASQh35FmCrXh5sYsScjK97Fkd4Oao5ONq5dHoZdn1VSxyrNC53VWnxyN1AIJqVoXFH6eUBVlEkU-pci6dBrzTB2gs0tp7sdrDc72ED_-M8h2NUlMiiUuzpUVVAIjCoGjUC4uGHB/s960/3+FB+bullying.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdZFBgOASQh35FmCrXh5sYsScjK97Fkd4Oao5ONq5dHoZdn1VSxyrNC53VWnxyN1AIJqVoXFH6eUBVlEkU-pci6dBrzTB2gs0tp7sdrDc72ED_-M8h2NUlMiiUuzpUVVAIjCoGjUC4uGHB/w400-h200/3+FB+bullying.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>There was no appeals process or opportunity to respond before the deprivation commenced. This is a common experience for many of us on social media, likely many times each. And almost certainly because these decisions are made by algorithms who do not understand the moral context of the statement ("ugly human being"); likely instead recoding Facebook to combat worsening eating disorders and depression (especially related to recent internal research leaks about in teen girls on Instagram who struggle with self-image issues). So this kind of over-correction is the result.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5WMKZkzXVINm3bUFFRdnCsyMmhdd1gRN8PXdORHz1HMbYg_5QVfxXqgcDzBa78WgxjQ230EJSlQCb2jAnPQoNE8suk-7nfCBL48fNuRF2UYNiE-V1fNAYIgTM_3ddrUFImdJ2-TAAp15N/s961/4+FB+Disagree.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="961" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5WMKZkzXVINm3bUFFRdnCsyMmhdd1gRN8PXdORHz1HMbYg_5QVfxXqgcDzBa78WgxjQ230EJSlQCb2jAnPQoNE8suk-7nfCBL48fNuRF2UYNiE-V1fNAYIgTM_3ddrUFImdJ2-TAAp15N/w400-h226/4+FB+Disagree.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqXvon4cwciSW2cYqciMnuk0UPFxeCyueSIkAvKPxHphdxVFGPFvTGPUeno7TNoLrvg8ZsTKgCEjgwcUJ7o1yKI_F8NExrGRL3cmlZXLhHdzsAtMIGq_jTRkfW8V6pKmdaEAGkWcg-ki2B/s792/2+FB+cannot+comment.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="792" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqXvon4cwciSW2cYqciMnuk0UPFxeCyueSIkAvKPxHphdxVFGPFvTGPUeno7TNoLrvg8ZsTKgCEjgwcUJ7o1yKI_F8NExrGRL3cmlZXLhHdzsAtMIGq_jTRkfW8V6pKmdaEAGkWcg-ki2B/w400-h214/2+FB+cannot+comment.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p>Almost every one of these online policy decisions have a significant annual negative impact on commerce because many social media users also rely on these platforms for advertising and sales. And yet responses to such matters are almost all determined (along with sanctions imposed) by an automated process long before a person reviews the matter in question. Who wrote the Facebook Constitution, anyway? Why shouldn't there be a Social Media Bill of Rights to include sufficient due process from actual human beings employed by major online platforms?</p>DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-84062512166067039982021-11-04T15:04:00.004-07:002021-11-04T15:04:34.100-07:00Time Traveling with Google Street View<p> I accidentally discovered a wormhole while using Google Street View. 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What would it be like for an ordered, organized person to design a spontaneous adventure for the first time?</p><p>After much trepidation, some guidance from friends, and a truck packed with outdoor gear and a camera, I set off on a thirty day road trip across the Pacific Northwest. I didn't exactly know where I would go, or when I would get there, but I gave myself permission to discover those answers along the way.</p><p>And those became my Western Transitions.</p><p><br /></p><div id="highlighter--hover-tools" style="display: none;">
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</div>DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-70070711604195665432021-04-05T11:34:00.004-07:002021-04-05T11:39:21.446-07:00Ledonne v. McClure Case Summary<p>For those of you who met me recently, or for those who didn't know much of this story, I'm sharing this Powerpoint here, which I received for the first time over the weekend and had not seen prior.</p><p>This presentation was prepared by the ACLU of Colorado in June 2016 as part of our mediation conference and lays out the facts of the lawsuit I filed against my former employer, Adams State University. I have added two final slides as a post-script to summarize the outcomes for myself and Beverlee McClure, the former president of ASU.</p><p>This was one of the most formative experiences of my life and served as a strong motivation for attending law school.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLNZjuDFXJEeKHGzyqv1w7DeFZMVBQLtCbsHqOXIfQO1LbFspbrFsfSe7wj73kFq1Af6M_KpQoq0LPE042896vhGM5bnaeeC8UxVFzvfWnPUn_wT-pAi-2OOyTBnRh0AOs2wVMYraOynks/s960/Slide1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLNZjuDFXJEeKHGzyqv1w7DeFZMVBQLtCbsHqOXIfQO1LbFspbrFsfSe7wj73kFq1Af6M_KpQoq0LPE042896vhGM5bnaeeC8UxVFzvfWnPUn_wT-pAi-2OOyTBnRh0AOs2wVMYraOynks/w640-h480/Slide1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirI0OtNWqt-hUTjvjvrbLMKiCCS9-2HkMHy-Nu3MS1BJoU8tni_tffhQ8-HEJZ0JHYPcNRtqq1sKfmqG0ooOluyOlrAJO0F3v9HRM59Bj1u8aBfts4j4s7Jc7XXcinUwkuDyvEy813SGo4/s960/Slide2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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But remember, kids: FrEe MaRkEt CaPiTaLiSm Is ThE mOsT eFfIcIeNt MeAnS oF aLlOcAtInG ReSoUrCeS.<br />
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This reminds me of a spot I used to bike across years ago, where a homeless encampment was set up under a bridge, right next to a warehouse that sold mattresses, bedding and bed frames. So every night, the homeless people would sleep on slats of cardboard atop concrete while the inventory of mattresses remained sealed and stored behind locked doors.<br />
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I thought, "this really cannot be the best method humans can come up with for the allocation of resources."DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-2303099351413891752020-03-21T23:02:00.002-07:002020-03-21T23:02:45.802-07:00Sanders vs. Trump: A Clear ContrastIn the past few months, I've heard quite a few comments that go something like, "Sanders supporters are like Trump supporters" (usually from Biden supporters or generally the "vote-blue-no-matter-who... but-Bernie-can't-win" crowd).<br />
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Yet when people say that, they seem to think Sanders supporters are confused about the difference between one political leader and the other. The contrast couldn't be more stark.<br />
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So give Sanders supporters more credit. They are not like Trump supporters; they recognize the glaring and fundamental difference between progressive populism and regressive authoritarianism.<br />
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<b><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/488780-sanders-raises-over-2-million-for-coronavirus-relief-effort" target="_blank">Sanders raises over $2 million for coronavirus relief effort</a></b><br />
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<br />DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-80238845667151205452020-03-17T11:03:00.002-07:002020-03-17T11:03:52.412-07:00Larry Kudlow - The Sound of SilenceThis is a deluxe remix of the earlier video that so many of you enjoyed! Now with the extra somber feels.<br />
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DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-59195088612471627542020-03-08T00:30:00.001-08:002020-03-08T13:44:30.656-07:00We Need to Talk About JoeFolks, it's past time to talk seriously about Joe Biden's mental decline.<br />
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The evidence was on full display at the carefully controlled, 10 minute stump speech Biden gave in St. Louis yesterday. His staffers have been doing their best to limit Biden's exposure to cameras and extended speaking engagements, but they cannot continue to conceal what is evident: Joe Biden is exhibiting signs of accelerating cognitive decline - regularly slurring his words, losing thoughts mid-sentence, combining words together, or making incoherent ramblings.<br />
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We cannot simply let negative partisanship (a strong dislike for Trump) or support for another candidate cloud an objective evaluation of what is plain to see. Watch old tapes of Biden. Much like Trump, Biden used to be be much more lucid in his thinking, crisp in his enunciation, and able to make a series of compound sentences without mistakes.<br />
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This isn't something charming or folksy, it isn't simply a style of delivery, and it isn't a stutter. It is called Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and represents "the stage between the expected cognitive decline of normal aging and the more serious decline of dementia. It can involve problems with memory, language, thinking and judgment that are greater than normal age-related changes."<br />
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It is notable that Joe Biden's 2019 physical did not include a cognitive test. It should have. The American people have a right to expect this of Biden, as we do of Trump, as part of a rigorous evaluation of a candidate's fitness for office.<br />
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The only test that hasn’t been done is the cognitive functioning test,” Olshansky added. “But the fact that he’s on the campaign trail and meeting a rigorous travel and meeting schedule probably would suffice as a replacement for the formal test for cognitive functioning.” He said that cognitive tests are typically not required unless problems are detected. - <b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-is-a-healthy-vigorous-77-year-old-male-his-doctor-declared/2019/12/17/c9d3b3e8-20f5-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html" target="_blank">Washington Post, Dec. 17, 2019</a></b></blockquote>
My contention is that problems have been detected - at basically every speaking event Biden has given in recent months. Biden must have his cognitive abilities formally evaluated and have those results released to the public prior to the 2020 Democratic National Convention.<br />
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DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-48492161456929588052019-12-12T17:32:00.000-08:002019-12-12T17:47:44.027-08:00Formula for Perpetual Minority RuleJust a quick review:<br />
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1. This Republican President has unlimited authority to <b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-court-mazars/trump-loses-lawsuit-challenging-subpoena-for-financial-records-idUSKCN1SQ29H" target="_blank">defy all subpoenas, lawsuits, and other legal proceedings</a></b>. The proposed remedy is an impeachment.<br />
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2. This Republican President has unlimited authority to <b><a href="https://apnews.com/7758c01484644deb991d4b00c088d40a" target="_blank">defy all witness subpoenas and document production during impeachment proceedings</a></b>. The proposed remedy is an election.<br />
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3. This Republican Party is <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><b><span id="goog_1096298103"></span>actively working to limit voter registration, ballot access</b><span id="goog_1096298104"></span></a>, and <b><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/republicans-democrats-take-opposite-views-nixing-electoral-college-n1001811" target="_blank">proportional Electoral College allocation</a></b>, while engaging in <b><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/27/gerrymandering-gop-hofeller-memos/" target="_blank">gerrymandering of districts</a> </b>and other anti-democratic efforts which prevent every voter from being counted and overturn efforts to ensure their votes count equally. The proposed remedy is to allow Republicans to continue rigging, cheating, and interfering with elections, ensuring the installation of Republican Presidents against the will of the American people.<br />
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This is the formula for <b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-is-in-a-state-of-perpetual-minority-rule/2018/11/08/9f9f38a0-e2b1-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html" target="_blank">perpetual minority rule</a></b> under the framework of a one party, authoritarian state. And so long as Republican voters believe such a system benefits themselves and punishes their perceived enemies, they will unrelentingly support it.DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-61742563021014546212019-12-11T02:37:00.002-08:002019-12-11T02:38:52.486-08:00Trump Rallies and George Orwell<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-9000823756296849552019-10-27T02:27:00.001-07:002019-10-27T02:28:06.778-07:00Facebook Circa 2005This was the first story CBS News ran about TheFacebook.com - a website that had spread to college students across 575 schools and required a campus email address to create an account.<br />
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Notice how completely unaware this report is with what Facebook has become or the corrosive, disruptive power it has wreaked across the country and around the world?<br />
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If only we knew then what we are discovering now.<br />
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Perhaps technology is not neutral. Perhaps it fosters an increasingly destabilizing effect on existing social and political institutions - usually in ways which favor the powerful interests who control and capitalize upon these digital tools.<br />
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DannyLedonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17250442657264184761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2480254892382168525.post-40700689163884854082019-10-04T17:03:00.000-07:002019-10-05T00:21:38.346-07:00A "Joker" for Our Times"Joker" is a dark, disturbing, powerful, and timely film. It is less a conventional comic book movie than a searing modernization of Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, or similarly brooding cinema. It is expertly directed, performed, shot and presented. Memorable and unrelenting, it pushes the boundaries of representations of violence as entertainment and is not likely to be enjoyed so much as endured.<br />
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The film's American release has been incredibly polarizing and is rightly controversial. However, that controversy should be reflected right back upon a country festering from a breakdown of trust in political institutions, growing economic inequality, eroding public services, insufficient mental health and social assistance programs... and yet awash in guns, television, psychotropic drugs, anger, fear and resentment.<br />
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The film has something to say about all of this and more. It is a brave, bold, ambitious and perhaps dangerous work of art. By the film's searing finale, we are all but forced to consider why such a film hits so close to home as a macabre distillation of our own zeitgeist. And perhaps we realize: the joke is on us.<br />
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