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Preston Maness ☭

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Also this very doxxable info btw

I lead a rather public life. I’m okay with it.

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To be fair, making judges elected rather than appointed is like, the one thing that I think Texas governance got right.

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For electronic voting machines at least, the write-in candidates are on a separate screen but don’t typically require actually hand-writing in the names; you just select the write-in candidate like you would any other.

LOL JUST KIDDING. Here in the grand old state of Texas at least, they force you to manually type in the write-in candidates, despite already having a list of approved write-ins available that they could add as buttons like they do for the other candidates. AND they don’t list the party affiliations for the write-in candidates either.

But hey: this is bourgeois democracy, folks.

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As a back-of-the-envelope calculation? When at least a third of the populace, and half of the military ranks, have enthusiastically endorsed socialism over capitalism. There are no shortcuts. Jumping straight to firebombing a military base is adventurism.

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Thankfully, the PSL is not deluded enough to be engaging in “revolutionary electoralism.” Their candidacy is viewed firstly as a party-building effort (rather than a direct path to proletarian power) and secondly as a mechanism for heightening the contradictions inherent to bourgeois democracy: that the Republicans and Democrats worked together to kick them off the ballot in swing states – Pennsylvania and Georgia – serves to underscore the futility of bourgeois democracy and prime the public for a proletarian alternative.

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For electronic voting machines at least, the write-in candidates are on a separate screen but don’t typically require actually hand-writing in the names; you just select the write-in candidate like you would any other.

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We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market. But taking on controversial topics because we believe they make the internet better for all of us is a key feature of Mozilla’s history. And that willingness to take on the hard things, even when not universally accepted, is exactly what the internet needs today.

But you’re not doing the hard things. You’re doing the easy thing. Capitulation to surveillance capitalism is the easy thing.

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Dover: it’s either a breeze or completely inscrutable.

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Holy shit that’s fuckin’ awesome XD

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I don’t regularly wear a kippah but even if I did, I’m not looking to antagonize. I strongly believe in no political anythings at work, even things that the majority deem inoffensive like pride pins or whatever.

I strongly believe in no political anythings at work

no political anythings at work

Work. Is. Political.

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