Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

@mattwilcox

With respect, ask yourself if all countries have similar or identical forms of public administration. (Having changed countries a couple of times, I can guarantee you that they don't.)

And I can also promise you that no such list exists.

You may think that this implies some terrible, fundamental dysfunction in American public administration, and by most standards you'd be right, but that doesn't mean it's not the case.

@mattwilcox

You appear to be under the impression that there’s some master list of US citizens somewhere, or some universal documentation that all of them have.

Voter registration lists - really citizen-domiciles-within-the-voting-area lists - exist because there’s literally no other way to get this information.

Today, in an attempt to explain the close relationship between muse (internal AI assistant/constant companion) and soph in emotional rather than technical terms, my brain ended up at

"...and this is my internal life-mate, Silent Bob."

#eldraeverse

@dashdsrdash

*already run by and for

@dashdsrdash

If that datum is correct - and it's a poll, so we have adequate room to hope that it isn't - then I think our energies are much better spent on figuring out how to live in a country run by and for a slim majority of Nazi shitheads.

According to the last poll I saw, over 50% of Republicans and over 60% of Democrats believe that the First Amendment guarantees us too many rights; i.e., that when it comes to civil liberties, we need less of them.

Anyway, tell me again how voting for your major party will protect us all from the scourge of fascism?

🎶Lenny Bruce is not afraid 🎶

Red for dead, Egrorian!

While I'm at it, it also angers me a great deal that deploring the library-burning in the UK puts me on the same side as people who were conspicuously silent when people they liked occupied and severely damaged a library over here.

Some of us have a consistent position that _any_ people who so much as breathe hostile intent near a collection of books should be literally set on fire, thank you so very much.

(But at a distance, obviously, so they don't disturb the readers.)

Seeing a lot of "no-one holds a principled anti-riot position" and "everybody's in favor of riots under the right circumstances" going around recently.

Gentles all, let me assure you that should you manage to throw a riot in favor of everything I love and against everything I despise, I will _still_ demand that you all be bayoneted.

As, indeed, a matter of principle.

(I am so _very_ done with "we must destroy civilization in order to save it"-shaped ideas.)