Oddbean new post about login | logout “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” ― H.L. Mencken
Iv found more about this attribution. It's actually a very interesting story. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/01/election/
i'm not surprised it was actually Mencken i think Twain said similar things but not precisely that expression in one sentence... there was a number of notorious Diogenes type guys at that time, in the late 1800s
Funny, I haven't looked at the name actually. And I wasn't going to proof you wrong. The story was simply very interesting and would never look at it without you mentioning the quote. Thanks.
Btw, you’re following an imposter scammer account 🧡🍻👊🏻 https://m.primal.net/LkAw.jpg
That's interesting. I stopped following the account because there was something fishy about this account. I started again, very recently. I've just had a thought about a feature where it is indicated since when the particular npub was followed. And thanks, I see your point.
LOOK npub NOTING else naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqhjlc9p5ey5teh96d7qpskw4ywp5zzfjjxvql5mwxwm5zcun6k3vqy2hwumn8ghj7erfw36x7tnsw43z7un9d3shjqflwaehxw309ahx7um5wgkh2ump9e4kzvt8vfjk7cfjx93xumfww4ej6am9wd6z6v3wvdejuctdv9ax7mnvd9nksarnv95kctnrdakj7qq489v42d3kdyc4wcmzw5e8s3r6gfykktf5tu236qpl
Heres one. Fact is, I think they’ve been stealing the election and engineering compromised assets for wins. Trump is the first non politician to ever hold office and I’m yet to be convinced f any crime he’s ever committed… https://m.primal.net/LkCj.png
Reagan was propped up in a similar situation back in the 80s as well, after a disastrous decade of financial chaos, also an actor, technically Trump is at least somewhat skilled as a thespian, and certainly was successful at reality TV i think that their craft of creating spectacles has got more and more effective as their ability to surveill has increased... at this point the amount of surveillance completely nullifies any value in democracy at all, now it's just a bunch of advertisers figuring out what they can sell at the highest price for the lowest cost
You and I will disagree on Reaganomics. I was a young man when Carter left office and interest rates on a home was ~21% He was the governor of CA for two terms and left it in fantastic shape when he left office. You’re just repeating propaganda about him that you’ve heard over the years and frankly you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about when it comes to 80s economics. We can agree on our elections being somewhat farcical. 🧡🍻👊🏻
hah... he was just the puppet like thatcher was for the UK... both of them pretending to be capitalists and ayn rand and all that shit and still we got NHS and Medicare and the fascist system increased along the way anyhow, if you want to worship government that's your business... all i see is actors running cover for obscenely rich money families who have been running this racket for thousands of years
