The thing is that the only cure for fascism is to break fascism - utterly. No half-measures.

Fascists only speak one language: their own blood.

No, you're just an idiot, you're not a problem, you're not significant enough to ever amount to a problem, you'll be forgotten 5 minutes after you're dead.

But, at least you have your impotent rage?

If we can analyze larger primes, we can generate larger primes which has applications in math, particularly cryptography and other areas, not even beginning to look at number theory. Specifically being able to verify them over a cloud is useful, we can generate them quicker and worry about their safety less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensel's_lemma has uses in physics actually.

Oh, you mean you don't understand it, gotcha.

Yes, and Bayesian statistics are useless too, they're all about things that have already happened!

The party switch was because of the Civil rights movement, nothing else.

The south was a single issue region since the beginning, at least for the majority it's always been racism, for the rest it was corruption or generally selling out their people for whatever the elites could get, like fighting the minimum wage and unions to the death.

So I'd say the death of unions was the turning point, helped by Nixon and the resurgence of the political power of the south with the dixiecrats freed from their quasi-white-socialist ideology following the successes of the new deal.

Dankan Idaho.

Crushed yet again by the God-Emperor.

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0065

There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.

The electoral college was designed from the start simply to let southern states launder slave votes.

The first time the south lost control of the presidency, they rebelled in the Civil War, and they've used it to get the presidency or otherwise get power dozens of times.

It's something the south feels entitled to, an override over the government because they are "The Real Americans" as they wave their confederate flags proudly.

If your choice is between that or thoughts and prayers, the Mexican people are fucked.

Because we're independent states, and unfortunately we have consistently failed to hold many of our lowest performing states to the standards all decent humans should hold.

Jim Crow took us 150 years to end, and we're still not completely free of it.

Mostly it's easier for us who don't live there, or no longer live there to ignore the nightmare they have to live through.

How exactly?

The Dome of the Rock is not in Gaza, it's in the West Bank, and in excellent shape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock

Designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, it has been called "Jerusalem's most recognizable landmark"[9] along with two nearby Old City structures: the Western Wall and the "Resurrection Rotunda" in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.[10] Its Islamic inscriptions proved to be a milestone, as afterward they became a common feature in Islamic structures and almost always mention Muhammad.[1] The Dome of the Rock remains a "unique monument of Islamic culture in almost all respects", including as a "work of art and as a cultural and pious document", according to art historian Oleg Grabar.[11]

Gaza itself isn't what you'd call a cultural touchstone, it's just an autonomous zone run by its duly elected government named: (*checks notes) Hamas? That doesn't sound right.

But hey, if you're really pissed off, tell Egypt to re-open their border crossings, might help ease the suffering.

The reason they haven't is because the last time someone was nice to the Palestinians, we had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September

The PLO's strength grew, and by early 1970, leftist groups within the PLO began calling for the overthrow of Jordan's Hashemite monarchy, leading to violent clashes in June 1970. Hussein hesitated to oust them from the country, but continued PLO activities in Jordan culminated in the Dawson's Field hijackings of 6 September 1970. This involved the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) seizing three civilian passenger flights and forcing their landing in the Jordanian city of Zarqa, where they took foreign nationals as hostages and blew up the planes in front of international press. Hussein saw this as the last straw and ordered the Jordanian Army to take action.[10]

Jordan allowed the fedayeen to relocate to Lebanon via Syria, where they later became involved in the Lebanese Civil War. The Palestinian Black September Organization was founded after the conflict to carry out attacks against Jordanian authorities in response to the fedayeen's expulsion; their most notable attack was the assassination of Jordanian prime minister Wasfi Tal in 1971, as he had commanded parts of the military operations against the fedayeen. The following year, the organization shifted its focus to attacking Israeli targets and carried out the Munich massacre against Israeli athletes. Though the events of Black September did not reflect a Jordanian–Palestinian divide, as there were Jordanians and Palestinians on both sides of the conflict, it paved the way for such a divide to emerge subsequently.[12]

Not great neighbors to have.

What part of "Louisiana" did you fail to grasp.

If they can pass a law to stroke off their "God-fearing" idiots while embezzling every dollar of federal funding they can, that's what they're going to do.

Waiting for the state law that says all federal highway funding has to be used for abortion prevention, specifically at the marketing firm run by the Governor's idiot brother.

No laws in the South, just cops.

Keep trying.

Maybe one day when elections are fair and queer people aren’t oppressed, but I won’t be holding my breath for that happening in my lifetime sadly.

Yeah, work wanted to send me, but I'm not white and also not suicidal window-proof.

This is not news, this is just Monday.

Whoa, hey, how the fuck did Sweden get dragged into this sewage fire?

Not cool man, not cool.

Tankies: "No, you don't understand, we meant WESTERN-sponsored genocide!"

Listen, it would be WHOLLY inappropriate for me to say anything sympathizing with that sentiment.

Especially that I would like to participate in said well-earned lesson.

Unless the election is somehow a complete blowout, like 320+ in the EC, Trump is going to rally every inbred redneck this side of Moscow to DC in full LARP costume and threaten mass violence if we don't give him everything he wants.

It's just who he is, and the GOP will be chill with it, because hey, they might win, and it didn't work out so bad last time?

And I think social democracy (which we need to fix) is the answer to that.

I think a lot of people like to LARP they're the rebel alliance that're going to defeat the evil empire and the ewoks will celebrate, not remembering the last few times the ewoks ended up first on the trains (purges, holodomor, GLP/CR, Khmer Rouge).

At the end of the day, in power structures, without a firm mechanism to counter, the most evil people generally rise to the top. Very familiar with this in my actual life experience which I'm going to guess most MLs don't have.

For instance, after the McD merger, marketing and finance execs slowly displaced engineers at the top and steered the companies away from doing their jobs and towards what you could call "ideological purity", ie short-term cash at any cost. Intel was similar, as was the USSR and PRC.

In the west, those companies are a smaller part of a whole, and if things go properly, they fail, an example is made, hopefully new management is brought in to replace them and recover the company.

In an authoritarian regime the whole country sinks or swims, hence NK is screwed. Russia actually had a great renaissance under Khrushchev, who helped recover most of the worst damage wrought by Stalin, until the idiot Brezhnev struck for ideological purity again and destroyed all that work. Gorbachev looked to be trying to fix that, but it was far too late.

Communists fail because they demand all eggs be under one basket, and as Rome showed us, you can have good Emperors, you can't have unlimited good emperors, sooner or later you'll get a political moron like Brezhnev or Xi and everything will fall to pieces.

It's why capitalists go on and on and on about "diversifying your portfolio" so no one bet ever kills you.

We still have no idea how our experience actually emerges from neurological activity

You don't. Science has a pretty decent idea.