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Total Collapse Of Democracy So Horrifying America Decides It Hasn’t Happened Yet https://t.co/FJUxHqv77X pic.twitter.com/V2ZeFVv85h

— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 12, 2020

wv wrote:

11 hour lines. Wow.

I suppose we should be grateful they are not having to dodge German Shepherds,
or fire hoses. Or bullets.

I’m gonna vote today, and i was gonna vote Biden but I checked the latest WV polls and Biden is in the 30s here. Cant even make it to 40 percent in WV. So, i suppose I’ll go ahead and vote Green. If this was a swing-state, Id vote for the Imperialist-drone-murdering-Wall-Street-Loving-Corporatist.

I’m guessing there wont be an 11 hour wait in WV.

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I’m torn. I’m actually considering voting for Biden…I have every other thing filled out on my ballot. But I live in California, and Biden is going to DOUBLE Trump’s vote tally in this state.

Zooey wrote:

wv wrote:

11 hour lines. Wow.

I suppose we should be grateful they are not having to dodge German Shepherds,
or fire hoses. Or bullets.

I’m gonna vote today, and i was gonna vote Biden but I checked the latest WV polls and Biden is in the 30s here. Cant even make it to 40 percent in WV. So, i suppose I’ll go ahead and vote Green. If this was a swing-state, Id vote for the Imperialist-drone-murdering-Wall-Street-Loving-Corporatist.

I’m guessing there wont be an 11 hour wait in WV.

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I’m torn. I’m actually considering voting for Biden…I have every other thing filled out on my ballot. But I live in California, and Biden is going to DOUBLE Trump’s vote tally in this state.

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Yeah, i ended up voting Green. I checked the latest WV polls and Biden cant even break 35 percent in WV. If this was a swing state, I’d have voted for the Imperialist-Dem. Kinda felt good, to not have to do that.

There was no line here in west, by god, virginia. Too twenty seconds to turn in my vote.

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“As a Nordic immigrant to the United States, I noticed something else, too. Americans, and many others around the world, did not seem fully aware of how much better things could be.”
― Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

— Mark (@masada2118) October 14, 2020

link:https://www.rainbowbuilders.org/health/russia-usa-life-expectancy
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Post-war USSR: a spirit of optimism

Let us start chronologically, with the case of Russia after World War II. Between 1946 and 1964, Russia went through the period of fastest increase in life expectancy in its history. It should be noted that Joseph Stalin was still in power until 1953. This might surprise many, but all the data used here comes from international organizations like UN organs (UNPD), the World Bank, the IMF etc. and from recognized Western academics like Angus Maddison’s team. This is definitely not some kind of “communist propaganda data”.

From 1953 on, Nikita Khrushchev progressively introduced some degree of liberalization. The fact that the rise in life expectancy slowed during this time is certainly not due to his policies, but rather to the fact that life expectancy in the Soviet Union came close to life expectancy in the most industrialized Western countries.

However, Khrushchev’s policies were not that popular among many senior members of the Communist Party and did not lead to faster economic growth. He was deposed in 1964 and replaced by Leonid Brezhnew who undid many of Khrushchev’s reforms and imposed a more conservative policy. Until 1973, this did not have any impact on economic development: between 1950 and 1973, the Soviet Union maintained an almost constant yearly growth rate of 3.3%, ranking between the postwar booms of the US (2.5%) and France (4.0%). However, as soon as Brezhnev came to power in 1964, the rise of life expectancy slowed down abruptly or stopped altogether in the European Soviet Republics of the USSR (Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania shown on the chart above; for the other republics, click “Select countries”).

The Soviet model reaches its limits

wv wrote:

zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:

Well…my thoughts were complicated by this:

No…I don’t want to endorse corporate Dems…but I sure have a strong urge to repudiate fascism…AND the wider the popular margin of victory is for Biden, the better. Especially because it’s going to be litigated unless the Republicans lose by such a margin that there is no pathway to victory, even with stacked courts. So there’s that.

I’m just in “enough of Trump” when it comes to the vote. I have no argument with leftists who can’t vote for the centrist Dem. But I am with Zooey when it comes to swelling the numbers of those who repudiate the orange man, and so I not only want to see the republicans lose, I would like to see a high turn-out.

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Yeah, makes perfect sense.

Some of the twitter-Greens really want the Green Party to make it to five percent. I forget why. But something-or-other happens if they get five percent.

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And I have been throwing that into the scale as well. But…what happens when they hit 5%?

They hit 5%, that’s what.

i see a Judge extended the Virginia voter-registration after the Cable was ‘accidently’cut. Every MSM article on the topic emphasizes the word ‘accidently’ in the headline.

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A federal judge extended the deadline for registering to vote in Virginia by 48 hours after the state's online voter registration system went down because of an accidentally severed cable. https://t.co/y2yaRVKjAA

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 14, 2020

“I’m standing in the line because my life depends on it,” one Atlanta voter says, as early voters continue to encounter lengthy lines to cast their ballots https://t.co/hjWzVk90GL pic.twitter.com/NCHNdCoDMx

— CNN (@CNN) October 14, 2020

I wonder if this causes people in Alabama to wear masks https://t.co/ACx74EdPET

— Dangerdav (@dangerdav) October 14, 2020