Do you have a bot army and need a place to crush human opinion? Welcome to Delaware.
Legislators have cast the change as a fix for low turnout in municipal elections and a way to attract business owners to the community.
“These are folks that have fully invested in their community with the money, with their time, with their sweat. We want them to have a voice if they choose to take it,” Seaford mayor David Genshaw told local station WRDE. Genshaw cast the deciding vote in a split City Council decision on the charter amendment in April, according to The Lever.
Think that’s bad? It gets worse.
Snyder-Hall noted that the legislation only outlaws double voting for human residents of Seaford, permitting it for out-of-town business owners. […] In 2019, it was revealed that a single property manager who controlled multiple LLCs voted 31 times in a Newark, Delaware, town referendum…
Amateur. A proper bot army would have stuffed votes into the thousands, just like early America when slaveowners claimed their “property” entitled them to more votes.
Anyone familiar with “Bleeding Kansas” knows where ballot stuffing by violent aristocrats ends up. There were about 300 registered voters in Leavenworth County, Kickapoo township, when votes there very suspiciously reached 900 to expand slavery… in the 1850s. And technically Kickapoo wasn’t supposed to have been dealing with such an important election, except Senator Douglas had stupidly repealed a 1820 ban on slavery (Missouri compromise) in 1854.
Can Delaware support dualing governments? Can it stop violent robot owners once it turns unlimited votes over to them?
If you think speech is free in America, think again. Much of it introduces a huge cost, especially hate speech.
About 52% of the survey responders reported having faced online harassment, compared to 40% in the survey’s previous year.
“We’re confronted with record levels of hate across the internet, hate that too often turns into real violence and danger in our communities,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, urging tech and social media platforms to do more to tackle online hate.
The rate of harassment stood at 76% for transgender people…
Shortly after taking over Twitter, Musk removed the company’s prohibition on “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.” …now rather than actually having open discourse, Elon is rigging the rules to favor one side of the transgender debate. Conservatives are free to call transgender people by their “dead name” on Twitter even though that offends them. But transgender people or allies cannot call conservatives “cisgender”… because that offends them. That’s not “free speech.” That’s just ideological censorship in favor of the right.
The online hate rate of 76% should be seen as an indicator of physical safety decline, as in the past.
Before 1933, Germany was a center of LGBT+ community and culture, with several renowned organizations serving and supporting trans and gender non-conforming people. Hitler’s Nazi government, however, brutally targeted the trans community, deporting many trans people to concentration camps and wiping out vibrant community structures.
Think of the targeting like a test called “how racist is Elon Musk“. The hate groups go after the least protected first, to see if they can get away with little crimes before expanding and expanding towards violently attacking others. Transgender people are again the canary.
Before the Nazis came to power, Germany was one of the global centers of trans activism and home to a thriving subculture of people with transgender identities. You could legally change your birth-assigned sex in some German cities even before 1900. The Nazis changed this. They brutally enforced Germany’s law against “cross-dressing.”
Physical hate confrontations including physical assault five years ago already was reported at almost 60%.
Almost 60 percent of transgender Americans have avoided using public restrooms for fear of confrontation, saying they have been harassed and assaulted…
A lack of protection from these assaults has been picked up by hate groups as a green light to expand their attacks. They’ve even turned into political platforms, reminiscent of America’s extremely hateful ways of the 1850s (e.g. nativist hate slogan “America First”).
Today, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and other GOP leaders are following the Nazi playbook, substituting transgender youth for the Jews. They industriously promote hatred, fear, and physical revulsion of this small group — also barely 1 percent of the population….
…at least 20 other Republican-led states are pushing anti-trans laws, in some cases effectively barring gender-appropriate care even for adults.
Many of these laws also bar transgender people from public restrooms matching their gender identity, evoking the days of racially segregated toilets. These laws play on the false, malicious claim that transgender people pose a danger to others in restrooms — a claim for which there’s not one shred of evidence.
It’s true, the Nazi hate playbook has become so normalized by Americans they just use a hateful anti-trans flag or comment to stand in for their swastika or salute. But to be fair, the Nazis took their inspiration from hate groups in America, which is why it’s no coincidence when certain Germans fly the Confederate Battle Flag or the Betsy Ross.
American “moral indifference” is what led to Civil War, if you study President Abraham Lincoln. American “moral indifference” is what expanded and lengthened WWI and WWII, if you study war hero “Wild Bill” Donovan.
It’s long past time for the moral majority of America to snap awake and create a clear and decisive line to stop hate speech now during an information war, instead of waiting for the next phase of easily predictable violent physical conflict to manifest (e.g. Jan 6th).
Sheriff’s deputies responded to the intersection of Rosecrans and Dunrobin Avenues in Bellflower at 9:40 p.m. regarding a two-vehicle collision with reported multiple injuries. Deputies arrived to find a black BMW sedan that appeared to have been T-Boned in the intersection by a Tesla. At least one female in the BMW sedan was trapped and unresponsive. Firefighters from the Los Angeles County Fire Department arrived and determined the female deceased at the scene.
In early January 2021 they published dangerous anti-democratic violent incitement, rejecting internal safety warnings and fear about harm:
Do we have to wait for violence — someone getting shot?
In an interesting twist, former Twitter staff have taken jobs as government regulators with the ability to issue fines for hate speech.
In a Thursday press statement, the watchdog agency says it has received more hate complaints regarding Twitter than any other online platform in the past year, and that reports of abuse on Twitter have multiplied since the beginning of Musk’s reign…
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