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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
@JuliusGoat
Aug 22, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
This is observably untrue. The electoral college focuses all attention to a handful of swing states. Abolishing it would make an LA vote exactly as valuable as an Idaho one—to name two places that currently get scant attention due to the EC.
The only thing he really wanted to say was the final sentence: “we don’t live in a democracy”

To defend the EC, you’d need to believe that, and believe that a democracy is a bad thing to live in.

The EC is an anti-democracy institution.
Count every vote, and let every vote count.

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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
May 6
This is not the proclamation of an expert. This is the confession of a fool.

I should explain.

I wrote the words you’ll find between these covers after August 2017, which was a key date in my rapidly dawning awareness of the true nature of my country.
the-reframe.com/very-fine-peop…
August 2017 is when tiki-torch waving Nazis invaded Charlottesville, Virginia, in defense of treasonous slaveholders and their own perceived supremacy.

August 2017 was also when the White Christian president defended those who marched with the Nazis as “very fine people.”
We know the Nazis were Nazis because they were chanting “Jews will not replace us,” and “blood and soil,” and all the other Nazi hits, and because they believed in Nazi causes and utilized Nazi symbology, and so on.
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May 4
Hey everyone, Very Fine People releases on June 25, and the paperback version is available for presale right now! (eBook preorders will be available later this month.)

More details right here: the-reframe.com/a-very-fine-an…
You can preorder it any of the places where books are sold, and if you go and order it you'll be doing the thing that helps authors more than anything else you can do. Preorders make bookstores and other instruments of publishing take notice.
I've been working on this book for about 7 years—almost certainly longer than you've been reading anything I write. I have thoughts and feelings about that, but first:

This link places a preorder for personalized signed editions.

schulerbooks.com/very-fine-peop…
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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
Apr 28
Seven lessons learned from a quarter century in a war-oriented society.

It's 2001—the year the movies promised we'd make contact with aliens—and the United States has rather recently been attacked by terrorists who flew passenger planes into buildings.

the-reframe.com/war-or-nothing/
I have a distinct memory from the day of the attacks, of a news anchor announcing—before the buildings even fell—that we were now at war, which we technically weren't yet; thanks to my high school civics class I knew that news anchors aren't empowered to declare war.
But sure enough, here in late 2001, old what's-his-name the news anchor has been proved right: we're heading to war in Afghanistan. Old what's-his-name knew, with the sage wisdom of somebody living in a war-oriented society; when you are attacked, war is not optional.
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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
Apr 20
In 2017 American Nazis invaded Charlottesville, VA, which is a major U.S. city in case you didn't know. Maybe you remember this. They called themselves "Unite the Right." They wanted what Nazis want, and did what Nazis do, which was to kill.

the-reframe.com/americans-who-…
They also wore polo shirts and held tiki torches, and chanted Nazi chants; about blood and soil, and others predicated on the idea that the white race was being replaced by races that Nazis view as inferior.

Probably it is worth talking about what 'the white race" means.
"The white race" is a pretend thing that certain people made up in order to consolidate social and political power and wealth by organizing the application of brutality and violence.

Anyway the Nazis believed they were white, and this was very important to them.
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A.R. Moxon (juliusgoat.bsky.social) Profile picture
Apr 7
Cargo ship Dali lost power and from there it was only a matter of time before it destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

We hadn't maintained the bridge for collisions of this type, we're learning. You'd think we would have—it's critical infrastructure.

the-reframe.com/blame-manageme…
But we're often the sort of place that fails to maintain what it has built; mostly because maintenance costs eat into tax revenues, and revenues could be used for tax cuts, and tax cuts help profits, and profits are very important, so collapses are just a thing that is coming.
But even if we had performed adequate maintenance, the bridge was probably doomed. Dali is the size and mass of a skyscraper (far larger than container ships used to be—but larger ships lower prices in supply chains, and lower prices help profits, and profits are important).
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Mar 24
I'd like everybody to yell at me, so I wrote about the upcoming election.

Or, to put it more specifically, I wrote about what an anti-fascist coalition might look like and how it might fall apart, using the election as a context.

the-reframe.com/binaries-and-i…
We’re dealing with rising fascism both globally and domestically, as I might have mentioned once or twice recently—“domestically” for me meaning the United States, though maybe you find it is true in your part of the old cosmic blueball, too.
I think there are a lot of people who realize this and agree that it should be stopped, and that’s good for people who want to stop fascism’s rise—people who I am going to assume includes you, the reader of this. Isn’t that nice of me?
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