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Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

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    It’s the 21 day mark. I’ve seen it before. It only takes 21 days to turn an election on its head by timing the right fights (details are not especially important). Will a rabbit appear out of a hat?

    There’s an obscure book called “Politricks” (some of you might have it). Its author is in the election, and the way everyone talks about it is extremely funny. I can’t tell the serious from the jokey anymore.

    To put it another way:

    If a work is subversive, a parody, or daresay satirical but not received that way, then it turns into a kind of self referential dark comedy.

    Satire dies in 2034.
    The rise of the meritocracy is satire.
    The rise of the meritocracy dies in 2034.

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    tdro

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    There are apparently some who think I’m an old archivist. I may have once worked at an archiving place before though. I’m young but I’ve felt old since ~2019.

    Someone tossed a delightfully devilish idea. If the world hasn’t ended yet and I somehow do this a third time (~2031), maybe I’ll try to resurrect and programmatically annotate data starting from 1962.

    Why?

    It makes the metagame entirely obvious for the future naive souls willing to play. The constitution’s first-past-the-post realpolitik meta is no joke.

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    The silly season has already started? For those interested, I’ll hide this election tracker here early for now. It’s a homework in progress. I’ve added incumbents (using 2021 polling data) and a timeline. Hopefully I didn’t make or copy too many mistakes…

    After powering through years of local news, I’m no longer clueless and if there’s one thing that’s legendarily accurate, it’s letters to the editors in printed papers. Once 2026 polling data is finalized, I’ll make myself extra rare while pouring a nice cup of hot tea.

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