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Cake day: September 5th, 2024

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  • yes, influence, and yet, in a democratic society, influence itself isn’t illegal. hacking of votes, physically preventing the vote, those things are illegal, but influence, in western culture once one reaches the age of aduluthood, then one is responsible for their own actions, and a functioning adult acting after having been influenced is not one of those things which the law usually recognizes as being actionable. little old ladies and scammers, sure, but not politics, so again, this is all very strange. welcome, i guess, but strange nonetheless.



  • I mean, this is better for Western Democracy, for sure, but it all seems like very thin evidence, sure Russia completely bumrushed the Romanian social media space and manipulated opinion, but it doesn’t seem like there was much if any direct hacking of the vote, so, they’re gonna get a do-over because they think people will change their votes? I’m glad to see it, and hopefully Moscow’s beard gets relegated to the dustbin where they belong, but it all feels like the opposite of Democratic to me, and even after saying that I wish we could have an annulment and revote on the last US Presidential election, because we’re headed for complete and utter destruction once Trump gets the keys again.






  • I was there when the deep magic was written (or soon after to catch reruns), Monty Python was skewering the Post War Conservative British cultural zeitgeist in ways which audiences hadn’t quite seen before, through the lens of British toffs (oxford and cambridge) playing at being proletarians skewering toffs. It was different for British TV, but it was like a sea change when American audiences finally caught up and began taking notice. It was smart comedy, pointed, brutal, and hilarious. America wasn’t doing anything like this, at that time, going more for the broad jokes that would appeal to the lowest common denominator. Sure others have mentioned Brooks, and Berle, and Cartoons which had been sending up cultural norms for decades, but they weren’t Python, Python, at the time were a thing of their own. Monty Python’s Flying Circus ran from 1969 to 1974. Saturday Night Live started in 1975.