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<p>EricS wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/31/24 5:07 AM, Santafe wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> The voting block that can cause the calamity is certainly a coalition of non-identical groups. If we think there are categories of Spontaneous Racists and Stimulated Racists (to borrow a term from spectroscopy), the part of the voting bloc that is made up of the spontaneous ones may not be all that large; maybe 20%? Not as large as the evangelicals (35–40%?, with some overlap). There presumably are some genuinely out-to-lunch types, and maybe one can imagine that talking has some place with them, which could be enough to move the margin of this winner-take-all event we are stuck with. And then the ones that can think enough to be strategically greedy or hoarding, but not circumspect enough to have every cared or understood how the society they suck from actually functions. _Maybe_ talking could have some effect with them.
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<p>Love the articulate, dense, but concise essay on this
front-of-mind high-stakes topic for the week (year).</p>
<p>For the hard-core CS types here it would seem we have a
Marshalling of Mobs.</p>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science)"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science)</a></p>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marshalling_in_heraldry"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marshalling_in_heraldry</a></p>
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<p>In an attempt to avoid launching into a Morbid-Fascination,
rant/rave, let me offer a few source domains of suggested
interest/relevance:</p>
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<ul>
<li>Goth/Visigoth 2-4C<br>
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<li>Mongols 13-14C<br>
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<li>Native American Confederated resistances (Tecumseh,
Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse) 18-19C</li>
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<p>not to mention dozens or hundreds or great saros of "popular
movements" we might identify with:</p>
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<ul>
<li>reformation</li>
<li>french revolution</li>
<li>american (federation of 13 colonies)</li>
<li>abolitionism</li>
<li>suffragism</li>
<li>civil rights</li>
<li>equal rights</li>
<li>anti-apartheid</li>
<li>solidarnosk</li>
<li>arab spring</li>
<li>occupy</li>
<li>BLM</li>
<li>#MeToo</li>
<li>Fridays for Future</li>
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<p>If/when Harris wins, it will be based on as unlikely of a
coalition perhaps as the combination of Evangelicals, Angry White
Men, Millenial Incels, Reagan Republicans, etc who shoved Donald
Trump's electoral college support over the unlikely line in 2016.<br>
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<p>In a nod to Jochen, I appreciate the gesture of hope and
solidarity from our friends in Europe who may have more riding on
our outcome than we do? I may have influenced a small handful of
votes (softened the hard core center of a few anti-Liberal
acquaintances enough they might at least write-in, leave the top
of the ticket blank or not even go to the polls)... this is
where my hope lies, that 1/10 Lefties and Allies have done the
same... <br>
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<p>Sarbajit once indicated he wasn't interested in the outcome or
struggles of US Politics Re: Trumpism... perhaps India is in a
good position to ride through this global geopolitical (possible)
transition. I *am* sympathetic that the US might well look like
"just another global bully" not that different than the likes of
Putin's Russia and Xi's China. Power is Corruption? Pieter is
another representative (reluctant or proud?) of the BRICS bloc
whose interests in this might not be as aligned as those of
Europe. I do wish we had a (yet) broader (vocal?) constituency
here.<br>
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