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All I said about India relative to the legacy of the British Empire is that their government is based on English governance and that that has served them well. Perhaps another system would have served them better, but I don’t know.
I lament the genocide campaign that was carried out through Manifest Destiny. I live on land that the Comanche used to call home but I was born where the (cannibal) Atakapas lived. It’s not like they were particularly nice to strangers, but I lament the destruction of so many cultures. The world is a dark and dangerous place.
Powerful English-speaking governments have done bad things.
Ok. Disclaimers made. Good enough? More self loathing required? Maybe a struggle session and some torture?
I won’t go into comparisons of what might have been if Islam or some communist regime had led in the Age of Discovery.
But I still like and feel a fraternal bond with people who speak my native language and who share a lot of common history with me.
Jiminy cricket! What do those who hate white people want? Genocide as a form of “turnabout is fair play”?
Don’t answer that.
England colonized the world because they overcame high infant mortality rates and as a result had a lot of young men to dress in red uniforms and send all over the planet. High birth and survival rates and world-leading technology. While there was a lot to lament, there was a lot which was laudable.
But I never wanted to have to defend what happened. I simply see Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Ireland,Wales—in addition to France, Germany, Italy, and most of the rest of Europe falling under an evil global tyranny.
So that makes me sad. And being sad makes me think about the plight of people with whom I have a lot in common. I’m guessing I’ll have more pressing and personal concerns to deal with soon enough, if the reactions even in this fairly enlightened thread are any indicator.
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Deleted Government Report Celebrates How Public Loves to “Conform” doesn’t give a link to an archived copy of the report. I located one at https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/net-zero-behaviour-change-initiatives2.pdf
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I believe a significant number of excess deaths can be attributed to people who failed to get prompt treatment for other diseases like cancer due to a fear or inability to get medical attention during the pandemic. I’ve seen numerous reports of people with a terminal cancer diagnosis whose cancer would have been treatable had they been diagnosed months earlier. I haven’t seen hard numbers, but from the quantity of anecdotes the problem can’t be negligible.
Chris, I just watched your interview with Scott Jensen, who's running for MN governor. I agree with a lot of what you say about election security and am delighted to hear your skepticism; verifiable evidence-based elections are precisely what are needed. I was a county election commissioner for 11 years; many thought my counterpart and I ran the most transparent, most secure, and most accurate elections in the country. But I heartily disagree that coders can produce election technology that will enable us to vote safely on the internet and can point you to many who will argue that assertion.
Secondly, I can respond to your point about being able to bank online securely, which, therefore, begs the question that the same must be possible in voting. That point was answered beautifully years ago by an acquaintance/colleague, Dr. David Jefferson, in his paper "If I can shop and bank online, why can’t I vote online?"
One crucially important reason is that personal financial transactions are symmetrical: there is someone at each end of the transaction that can look at it and see what's there, confirming where all the dollars are. Elections, however, are asymmetrical. Only the voter knows what's in her transaction. Nobody else can. The voter cannot call an election official and confirm that her candidates were credited with her votes. That's because her ballot is secret.
There's more to it, though, including a hearty discussion about security; here is a link to it: https://electionlawblog.org/?p=24849
I'd love to talk election security sometime. I've spoken all over the country and given expert testimony in court on the topic. (And Brad Friedman interviewed me twice. He may be interviewing me tomorrow, too.)