@Thorvald
El Thorvaldo Moderator
When the Current Resident of the White House openly boasts about rigging the election, the choice is not Democrat or Republican: it's democracy or dictatorship.
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@chaseawaythedark: Not the macro, but to quote from the article:
“They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo. “If they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting because they’re not equipped to have it.”
@Thorvald: That moment when the two parties are debating about the post office, and here I am remembering the times I tried mailing letters to people in-state that ended up in Mississippi based on human systemic error. First thing is first, we need a Where's George system but for letters instead of money.
@chaseawaythedark: Either that or a non-monopoly on mail service. Not sure why I even suggested Where's George.
@chaseawaythedark: Sympathetic as I am to the Anarchists in some respects, certain infrastructure would be devastating to devolve, and public mail is one of them. Local mail could be managed locally for sure (back in the day, if you needed a letter delivered you tipped a passing kid tuppence to run it for you), but the further the system scales up, the harder coordination becomes without a central body. Private couriers exist as complementary to the national service for people that want to "jump the queue", but if you hand everything over to the for-profit types, you'd see the exact same thing as the Internet service providers: a collusory carve-up of the country into corporate fiefdoms charged exorbitant fees for the minimum possible service. Government services are at the mercy of the ruling party's budget, but at least they remain under ostensible public control.
@Thorvald: Email seems to do fine despite there being so many email sites that all agree on a single sungularity. What do they have that gives them the assurance to be as they are that snail mail isn't able to have?
@chaseawaythedark: Digital versus physical data, for one. ;p Web communications protocol was standardized at the start of the tech and so everyone that came later has been working off the same foundation. There are different E-mail providers, but they're all running off the same infrastructure—in practical terms you're just picking which post office has the nicest interior. If providers ran like physical couriers and had to maintain that infrastructure individually at their own expense, E-mail would look much different (and likely function worse).
Is it truly confirmed he said/implied this? I learned to stop jumping to conclusions with news sources when I began socio studies.