Author: 1man1vote

Bamboozoled: Don’t Believe The Hype

Or the lies…

This morning the NEWSWEEK reported that Biden has become the first incumbent to lose a primary in the Super Tuesday scrimmage. Some dude won the primary in American Samoa.

Their announcement sort of buries the lead, because

In the 2020 Republican primaries, incumbent President Donald Trump defeated challenger Bill Weld in the Super Tuesday Republican primaries. Among the Super Tuesday states, Trump was uncontested in Maine and Minnesota, as both the Maine and Minnesota state Republican parties left Weld off their ballots. 

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The Virginia Republican Party went a step further,  deciding to cancel its primary altogether and select their delegates directly at it’s state party convention.

This seems to set an undeniable presidence in the recent decision of the SCOTUS, denying the state of  Colorado to exclude a toxic candidate from their ballot, at their discretion. The state of California was also allowed to restrict my ability to write in the name of a person of my choice,  because Elmer Fudd was not a candidate.

[Source: wikipedia]

America Is A Fairytale

   I am disenfranchised. The very idea of America is becoming a fairytale. We are being asked to take things on “faith” when the facts are in direct opposition to it.
My twins used to play hide and  seek in the house and walk past the hider, pretending not to see her or hear her giggling, because they didn’t want the game to end.
On the one hand, our forefathers, the “original framers” are revered and accepted on faith to be wiser than Moses, and the constitution is as sanctified as is his second set of scrolls – until we need to look the other way and use the scroll to discriminate against somebody or a group of somebodies. Suddenly what they said was not what they meant, because they could not foresee the present situation, that we want to ignore or use as a bludgeon.         Yes, i am saying that America is a fairytale. There is no American Exeptionalsm. There is however a huge pothole of American Acceptionalism, that allows us to render truth mute in the name of Critical (Race, Religious, LBGTQ, guns, abortion, insurrection) Theory, and accept whatever status quo hides the big picture.
The Supreme Court has declared themselves sacrelegious, unquestionable and undisputable on any subject brought before them, yet the state of Texas and Florida choses to ignore their ruling at the border, and the state of Alabama choses to Interpret their ruling as they see fit. The federal government (Biden) is powerless to reign them in. The GOP (johnson) is powerless to even bring a vote before its own membership, in fear of being voted (trumpled) out of leadership.
So. I say again. America is a fairytale.

A Squatting President

 

     On Friday January 6, 2017, congress ratified the electoral college votes that awarded the 2016 election to donald trump.

     Now trump argues that as the  SITTING president he could not be charged for his part in the January 6th 2021 insurrection.

     Actuality on that day in 2021, but for his illegal interference in the largely ceremonial electoral college certification, he was a SQUATTING president.

 

Political Theater

Lately, the word “unprecedented” has been bantered about, concerning the legal problems of the former president. Now, after 234 years, you people want to consider allowing a potentially convicted felon to serve as president of the United States.

How about this. Let us restore the voting rights of all convicted felons so that we can see an unprecedented electoral butt whipping.

Continue reading “Political Theater”

The New Social Media Police

It may be too radical, so I don’t want to associate the word “evangelist” with chatGPT, so I will stop short and invoke the word “puritan”.

     Artificial intelligence is minding the shop and functioning as our new defacto mortality police. There is no union protecting our rights. Use of certain words and or images may cause your entire post to be blocked, simply because A.I. misunderstands the context that you intended, and since A.I. lacks the abilty to reason, and is programmed to make snap, unjustified steps to protect, what “it” has been programmed to view as “community standards.”

     A.I. controlled social media enforcement invites users to dig deeper into various subjects inside newly designed group chats, and then scolds us or denies aspects of the post. Sometimes the ban is based on word selection or context. Often an entire post can be blocked if artificial intelligence’s vast data base determines that an image that accompanied your post has been overused by others or is otherwise not an original image. Sometimes the image is rightfully identified as licensed material, stolen from A.I’s own photo gallery of search responses.

     I personally have had content blocked 🚫 because I suggested the extermination of a rodent, using the harsh term K*LL

     I have a social media group, that invites and allows members to RANT and in some cases RAVE about any damned thing that p*sses us off. Recently one of the regulars – let’s call him Scot was blocked because he posted an image depicting an arial view of crowded urban squall. (a city). It was presented in black and white, and reminded me of a scene from the movie where King Kong attacks Fay Wray. Another SM/social media friend of mine, let’s call him  – Stan, reported having a post denied because… Hecky darned if we can figure this one out. He was trying to make a connection with a potential business partner, but maybe A.I. thought he was trying to make some kind of TINDER connection. 😆

     It seems that A.I. may want us to take and attach our own photos to each individual post. These photos would of course become subject to addition to google’s own photo gallery, and presumably google will pay you a streaming fee, as a DIGITAL CREATOR. That is now your official designation on SM, whether you know it or not. My friend, Scot considers that to be too transactional and distasteful,  prefering not to be paid for the friendly excange of information.

Like it or not, you are an unpaid employee.

Sada Tay.

China – Cuba Relations

After the 1990s when the Soviet Union collapsed, the China Cuban relationship has gotten stronger to the point. Now, where both sides vote similarly in International fora, China, has become one of Cuba’s largest trading partners and both sides support dictatorial regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and there’s even recent talk about cuba potentially joining the bricks. And so this gives a sense of the comprehensive nature of the China Cuban relationship beyond politics beyond ideology into economics as well.

Reparations

The present debate concerning  reparations for slavery has hit the expected wall.

“It would be wrong to single out one race of people over the rest, when so many groups have suffered,” is the present answer to the question. 

     Americans have been totally fine with reparations, just not for slavery.

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Japanese were inconvienced in camps for 3 years during world war 2.

The Office of Redress Administration (ORA) was established in 1988 and was charged with administering a ten-year program to provide a tax-free restitution payment of $20,000 to eligible individuals of Japanese ancestry for the fundamental injustices of the evacuation, relocation, and internment during World War II.

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The US  has supported reparations as a form of restorative justice. After World War II, it supported Jewish victims of the Holocaust in their demands for reparations from Germany and Austria. As recently as 2016, the US Department of State helped Holocaust survivors access the payment owed to them by a French railways company that was an accomplice in deportations.

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The U.S. government paid Mexico $15 million “in consideration of the extension acquired by the boundaries of the United States” and agreed to pay American citizens debts owed to them by the Mexican government.

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The commission, which was active until 1978, paid out $1.3 billion, according to the New York Times, which amounted to about $1,000 for each tribal member. In 1980, the Supreme Court ordered the United States to pay the Sioux nation over $105 million for the illegal government seizure of its land.

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I suspect that on Harvey Milk’s birthday, we will see reparations paid to the LBGTQ community,  in abstention of any requests by the black community.

 

Self Driving Dilemma

Over the last 50 years I have driven cabs, tour buses, shuttle vans, and city buses. The focus on driverless cars ignores the thousands of vehicle versus pedestrians, cycles and other vehicles every day. Contrary to what their mothers taught them, people step into the street from between parked cars, all day. I see them because I expet them to do dumb stuff, and I know to look for their pinheads above the top of the cars. The self driving cars just need more cameras that scan the environment beyond the double yellow lines, with no expectation that pedestrians know or will  not only observe the rules, but “common sense”

There was a fire truck in ‘Frisco that T-boned a driverless car – not because the car ignored the fire truck, but because the truck driver was cocky and insisted on his right of way. What if the car had been driven by someone hard of hearing – the results would have been the same. Check out the picture below. Same situation, except the car was being driven by a human.

Sure the Self driving cars will need to be programmed to recognize the sound of approaching emergency equipment. Perhaps the equipment should be equipped to broadcast a tone that is outside of our range of hearing, but will allow the A.I. in a self-driving vehicle to distinguish the tone and probably triangulate the speed and direction.