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glen ropella

against hysteria in all forms

There is good news:

'Taking Sledgehammer' to Failed US Drug War, Oregon Votes to Decriminalize Narcotics as Five States Legalize Marijuana
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/04/taking-sledgehammer-failed-us-drug-war-oregon-votes-decriminalize-narcotics-five

Those of us who waste our free time talking about things like "emergence", "entropy", and "distributed computation", should be able to see locally good results in spite of the non-local catastrophe. I still dream of a Cascadian secession: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movement). Division of the earth based on biome would make so much more sense than division based on strong-man war and "economic" power.

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Steve Smith

Re: against hysteria in all forms

Glen wrote:

	Division of the earth based on biome would make so much more sense than division based on strong-man war and "economic" power.

John Wesley Powell's vision of 'governing like a watershed':

https://legacy.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2003/aug/water/part1.html

And our own Jack Loeffler's updated conception

https://unmpress.com/books/thinking-watershed/9780826352330

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Prof David West

Re: against hysteria in all forms

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Drugs biggest winner of the election. Every measure in every state/municipality won by at least 5%.

And divided government means nothing gets done.

there are silver linings in every cloud.

Other than issues from recounts, especially in Wisconsin, I doubt the courts will have much say in deciding the election.

davew

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, at 11:27 AM, glen↙↙↙ wrote:

> There is good news:
>
> 'Taking Sledgehammer' to Failed US Drug War, Oregon Votes to
> Decriminalize Narcotics as Five States Legalize Marijuana
> https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/04/taking-sledgehammer-failed-us-drug-war-oregon-votes-decriminalize-narcotics-five
>
> Those of us who waste our free time talking about things like
> "emergence", "entropy", and "distributed computation", should be able
> to see locally good results in spite of the non-local catastrophe. I
> still dream of a Cascadian secession:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movement).
> Division of the earth based on biome would make so much more sense than
> division based on strong-man war and "economic" power.
>
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Steve Smith

Re: against hysteria in all forms

Dave West wrote:
> Drugs biggest winner of the election. Every measure in every state/municipality won by at least 5%.
and does that translate more broadly in (y)our mind(s) to an expansion
of personal liberties that Dems and Libs (if not evangelical and
traditional Conservatives?) can agree on.
> And divided government means nothing gets done.
>
> there are silver linings in every cloud.

Divided government *also* represents checks and balances, as well as an
opportunity for coalition building and seeking win/wins.    My
Civics/American Government has been tuned up a little by this last 4
years, but it is still weak and I feel like the assumptions of our
governance has shifted radically starting sometime I cant identify...

As much as I was enamored of the possibility of the Dems getting a good
strong 100-day/2-4 year open-field run to undo some of the more
structural/specific damage Trump/McConnel have done, but to maybe make a
run on a "Progressive" agenda, although I am very suspicious of certain
aspects of "progress" (mostly those representing the neo-liberal POV
stylization of progress)?   I'm not sure I really know what I'm talking
about here... I feel rather under-educated right about now.

> Other than issues from recounts, especially in Wisconsin, I doubt the courts will have much say in deciding the election.

Which is why I'm very glad that Pennsylvania is not expected to be
critical... there is a lot more fodder for Trump's whining and
wheedling to the courts.   Trimming off absentee ballots already in hand
yesterday and counted by today is a lot less obvious than what PA is set
up for... (not blaming them).   I was *really* worried that PA was
going to be an excuse for us to all find out if
Roberts/Kavanaugh/Barrett were in line to replay their 2000 roles in
spite of having been advanced *out* of them.

-Steve

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