"The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work...I just have to chisel away the superfluous material" - Michelangelo
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Republican Rome was a country of middle class property owners. As Rome transitioned to centralized, slave powerd latifundia owned by a connected few, the middle class died along with the republic
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Brazilian polling station worker:
Ballot boxes had been sealed at 5pm.
Lula appointed Judge rules only stations with open ballots boxes remain open.
Only Lula voting areas got the memo, and knew this ruling was coming at 4:57pm.
No meu local de votação. Tudo correu normalmente e as urnas foram fechadas às 17h.
Às 17:05h, o coordenador do TRE, deu notícia sobre a decisão do Zanin: a votação seria estendida por mais 2 horas!
Caos geral. Ninguém sabia o que fazer.
Decisão da Coordenação: NINGUÉM ENTRA, NINGUÉM SAI!
Ficamos eu e mais um eleitor da minha Seção, que, tendo votado por último e sido Testemunhas do encerramento dos trabalhos, como no 1°Turno, impedidos de sair do Colégio Marista São José, na Barra da Tijuca.
Em dado momento, foi chamada uma reunião de todos os mesários e outros participantes da votação, no pátio interno do Colégio, para divulgar uma decisão sobre o que seria feito.
Eu e o meu colega de Seção nos aproximamos. Eu comecei a registrar em vídeo.
- É Proibido Filmar! Gritou a "autoridade"
- Como assim? Não estamos no ato de votação dentro da Seção. Por que não posso registrar uma decisão que afeta os trabalhos de votação do qual Eu participei como testemunha? Retruquei.
- Porque EU estou proibindo.
- Sou civilizada e não vou questionar essa sua decisão pessoal, ainda que discorde dela. Mas vou ouvir e ser Testemunha do que você comunicar. É meu direito, já que estou impedida de sair daqui. Respondi.
Os olhares espantados e de reprovação de quase todos foram dignos de nota. Não estão acostumados a questionar quem quer que seja, sem tumultuar. Não sabem o que significa a palavra "cidadania". Têm vergonha e se intimidam diante de qualquer um que se apresente como autoridade. Fazer o quê?
A DECISÃO : Às Seções serão reabertas e, por mais 2 horas, os eleitores que chegarem poderão registrar seus votos, numa ata em separado, a ser anexada aos demais documentos da Seção!
Imaginem o potencial para irregularidades. Ainda que as urnas não possam ser reabertas, "eleitores" poderiam registrar seus votos, em separado. Quem fiscaliza isso?
Agora, o indefectível ministro Zanin, decide que a decisão de prorrogar a votação é válida, APENAS para as Seções onde as urnas ainda estejam abertas!
Entre esta nova decisão e o que foi implantado no meu local de votação, houve pelo menos 2 pessoas que "votaram" nesse modo.
Fomos, finalmente, liberados para sair do Colégio.
Não sei quantos eleitores mais conseguiram ir votar.
Todo esse imbróglio dá margem a questionamentos e até possível anulação da votação.
A quem interessa tamanha insegurança eleitoral?
NB:
- EU FOTOGRAFEI TODOS OS BOLETINS DE URNA AFIXADOS NO COLÉGIO MARISTA SÃO JOSÉ- BARRA DA TIJUCA.
- Houve umas 3 Seções que se recusaram a divulgar o boletim, mesmo já tendo encerrado os trabalhos: "não vamos divulgar, até que o TSE autorize os novos procedimentos". 🤷🏽♀️
INACREDITÁVEL!
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People don’t really understand that when Lula stole trillions, it wasn’t to eat caviar, it was to put it in the global communism finances. If you think the commies who flood Europe with migrants and Lula are not related, you’re naive. It’s an international movement
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Go to any "selective" prestigious university, and you'll find the same thing. Cultural dead zone. Disgusting boba and ramen and pho everywhere. No late night coffee spots, no scene. Just dead eyed resume builders and spies jabbering in Mandarin
This deserted street is at the center of Boston University, which is supposed to have about 40 thousand students. Most are nowhere to be found.
The students you do see all look completely miserable. Everyone is foreign- not just in origin but in the world they inhabit. Virtually, she is far away- China, Valhalla, the moon, It wouldn’t matter. it’s not the phone that transports her, it’s her head that’s in the clouds. And she is all of us.
Decades ago, this part of campus had the best parties. Now, unfriendly strivers in fantasy worlds. A Tower of Babel, and the split is more than superficially linguistic
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Most of Boston except southie tbh
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Describing failed third world countries accurately is very scandalous to libs.
Because they know if these places are described accurately the next logical question is why are they like that, and they REALLY don't want an equally accurate explanation for that one.
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This neighborhood is just zombies without Red Sox games. They will walk through you as you attempt to exit an elevator
This deserted street is at the center of Boston University, which is supposed to have about 40 thousand students. Most are nowhere to be found.
The students you do see all look completely miserable. Everyone is foreign- not just in origin but in the world they inhabit. Virtually, she is far away- China, Valhalla, the moon, It wouldn’t matter. it’s not the phone that transports her, it’s her head that’s in the clouds. And she is all of us.
Decades ago, this part of campus had the best parties. Now, unfriendly strivers in fantasy worlds. A Tower of Babel, and the split is more than superficially linguistic
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The coastal US is pioneering novel “nowheres,” abysmal cultural parking lots where mutual understanding between any two people is minimized as much as possible. One can feel cognitively damaged after spending time here bc the information landscape is basically TV static
This deserted street is at the center of Boston University, which is supposed to have about 40 thousand students. Most are nowhere to be found.
The students you do see all look completely miserable. Everyone is foreign- not just in origin but in the world they inhabit. Virtually, she is far away- China, Valhalla, the moon, It wouldn’t matter. it’s not the phone that transports her, it’s her head that’s in the clouds. And she is all of us.
Decades ago, this part of campus had the best parties. Now, unfriendly strivers in fantasy worlds. A Tower of Babel, and the split is more than superficially linguistic
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Only property owners should vote. Owning property ties your financial future to the country’s future. I want voters asking what a policy does to the next twenty years, not just what it puts in their pocket next month.
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Organizing for politics and issue advocacy should be illegal amongst federal bureaucrats, who must be as apolitical and neutral in their roles as possible.
The bureaucrats are not and cannot be allowed to become a separate and co-equal branch of government, with veto power over the authority of elected officials and their administrators.
This is completely aside from the fact that our government bureaucracies seem to be populated almost entirely with absolute lunatics, which only adds urgency to the issue. Even if they were the most sober-minded and judicious people in the world, the fact is we cannot allow the bureaucracy to politically organize amongst itself.
🚨🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 8: THE COMPLICIT FEDERAL WORKERS 🚨
In Drop 7, we saw Paul Zeitz type during a Zoom call:
"We are also starting to consult federal workers on how to do some blocking inside the govt agencies during emergency situations - but please do not put that on the form."
Excuse me? Actively blocking the federal government during an "emergency situation?"
And how are federal workers involved with Renew American Democracy (RAD), a group whose primary mission is to a fundamental rewrite of our Constitution?
Turns out, a certain federal workers alliance, FWAD, is working closely with RAD on their goal to rewrite America.
FWAD is the Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy, formerly known as "Federal Workers Against DOGE."
RAD's published strategy lists FWAD among its endorsers. But FWAD isn't just an endorser. It is a founding partner of the Nationwide Deliberation Campaign (NDC). The goal is "a national People's Proposal of structural reforms" - which, in RAD's other videos and strategy documents, is planned to occur just after the federal government has been declared illegitimate. In a nutshell: with no federal government, a representative (read: DEI) panel of citizens will be assembled, their input collated and stitched into a new constitution for the Fourth Founding.
But that is not the only path for restructuring. A concept note also proposes "Constitutional amendments," with "state ratification strategies." Either way, all evidence points to that the NGOs in the Block lane know their goal is to rewrite American governance.
All the receipts are in this video. 👇
Note: two current federal workers were in the files. As they are not public figures, I withheld these names. I gave them over to contacts in their agencies instead.
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The biggest problem for the Democrats this cycle is that Trump has shut down a lot of the election fraud. The polls are wrong because they have a built in fudge factor to account for cheating, so that it doesn't look screwy when the Democrat "wins" with thousands of fake votes.
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Very one dimensional thinking. Part of being “successful” is knowing how to socialize and interact with people.
Lighten up a bit and maybe you will be invited too! 🙃😉
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😑😑😑 it’s just an energy that is boring and lame. Not everything has to be a competition or transactional. People do love to do things just because, not for a point or grade or whatever.Nothing creative or fun comes from such an environment. Many wonder why they are so lonely
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Thread on the new soullessness of college neighborhoods.
I think that if colleges back in the 1990s had focsed on getting their students to pair off and make future students, who'd return to the same campus or at least to a similar one, it would have been easier for these college neighborhoods to retain some essential "character," decade to decade.
Instead, the colleges encouraged students to get onto career trajectories requiring further credentialing through age 30 and beyond. Many of those grads got slammed with so much subsequent debt that they now make very poor donors -- let alone producers of new students. There's just been no transmission of tastes, values or personality.
Unlike colleges a century ago, the modern colleges completely disassociated themselves from the idea that they're not just making graduates, they're making new students for themselves for 2-3 decades down the road. In fact, if I even mention this alternate institutional script to other academics now, they're clearly deeply disgusted by the whole idea! And yet, at this point, every single problem in higher ed is in context of "demographic cliff" which is a way of describing the nonmaterialization of those kids.
