Modern Red Record

I read The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States in 2015. It was a couple years after the start of #BlackLivesMatter. I read it after the mayor of Charleston claimed not to know about the treatment of blacks, so people created reading lists, and this was on them.

It came to my mind that #BlackLivesMatter is really a modern version of the Red Record.

The United States to create fairness has a justice system. Law enforcement makes an arrest. Criminal prosecutors charge the arrestee. A judge runs a trial. A jury makes a decision on guilt. In the case of the jury deciding the individual is guilty, there is a punishment applied. In the most severe offenses being guilty, the individual might get an execution.

Lynchings are where the individual gets an execution without a trial. A mob kills the individual. Or it might be a smaller group.

Law enforcement killing someone they sought to arrest circumvents justice where they are supposed to uphold it.

From Modern Red Record published September 09, 2020 at 09:49PM.

Election season: My re-reading list voting

• Anatomy of an election ‘meltdown’ in Georgia (this was June and November will have double the voters)
• How to hack an election
• Mandatory Voting vs Quasi-Mandatory Voting

From Election season: My re-reading list voting published September 06, 2020 at 11:42AM.

Election season: TED Talks

• We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim (post / video)
• Trial, error and the God complex (post / video)
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From Election season: TED Talks published September 06, 2020 at 11:41AM.

Election season: My re-reading list TRUMP v BIDEN

• While I may have issues with his abilities to govern, Trump is a a fantastic storyteller. Biden got better at it during the primary, but he has fall off of it since March.
• Trump’s best shot at reelection is false-consensus effect

From Election season: My re-reading list TRUMP v BIDEN published September 05, 2020 at 11:39AM.

Election season: U.S. leader quotes on my mind

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

President James-Garfield, 100th anniversary of Declaration of Independence

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

From Election season: U.S. leader quotes on my mind published August 30, 2020 at 11:28AM.

Election season: My re-reading list good to read

• Review: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
• Quasi-Mandatory Voting
• In the time of Hamilton

From Election season: My re-reading list good to read published August 29, 2020 at 11:38AM.

Election season: Founding Father quotes on my mind

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine (1776)

Even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

Thomas Paine (1776)

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people, which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

Thomas Jefferson (1787)

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Thomas Jefferson

Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.

Benjamin Rush (1788)

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

Thomas Paine (1792)

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens.

Thomas Jefferson (1816)

From Election season: Founding Father quotes on my mind published August 23, 2020 at 11:36AM.

Election season: My re-reading list mandatory

• Illusory Truth Effect : how the frequency of statements influences how accurate we think they are.
• Puppet Candidates : how candidates claim they create things reserved for Congress. (Bush v Gore)
• The Enemy’s POV and Ideological Identity : ideology > facts. Even worse, we have arrived where ideology is our identity.
• Bullshit Curation : “the Orwellian spin of stories from political groups to make the terrible sound good for us or the good for us sound terrible.”
• Memic Straw Men & Gotcha Jerks & Gotcha Jerks II : is it better to be kind or to be right? Attacking people for their different understanding is just making them more entrenched.

From Election season: My re-reading list mandatory published August 22, 2020 at 09:13AM.

Is MAGA pro-Social Democrat?

When people use Make America Great Again, the question is often posed as to what period? I often see the assertion to the late 1940s through the 1950s, which was before the removal of segregation. These are not usually MAGA supporters, but let’s hypothetically say this is true.

Something that came to mind is this was also a period when the United States was effectively fairly similar to social democratic countries.

1. Unions were very strong. The CEOs of companies made 20x more than average workers rather than hundreds to thousands. The inequality we see between the middle class and 0.1% was not as great.
2. Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid were just starting and heavily funded popular programs ensuring people were pretty well taken care of.
3. The G.I. Bill ensure a huge number of men and some women attended college for free.

If this is indeed the period of time to which they are alluding, then I wonder why the despise the policies that helped make it so great. I often see references to them as Communist. Which was feared during this period.

From Is MAGA pro-Social Democrat? published August 19, 2020 at 05:19PM.

Facebook discourages providing sources

A friend posted an article about a political candidate. I wanted to find a related article and add it to that conversation. So, I opened the browser, got pulled into a couple offline things, found the article, got pulled in a couple other offline directions, and went back to the post. The app refreshed and went to the top of the newsfeed.

Now, I cannot seem to find the original.

Guess I should stick to the browser where everything is in tabs so I don’t lose my place.

From Facebook discourages providing sources published August 08, 2020 at 11:41AM.