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OT: World Politics

Wayward DP said:
using CDC data (murder rate):

Florida, 2021: 7.4, 1,468 total
California, 2021: 6.4, 2,495 total

Florida, 2020: 7.8, 1,530 total
California, 2020: 6.1, 2,368 total

drug overdose rates:
Florida, 2021: 37.5, 7,827 total
California, 2021: 26.6, 10,901 total

Florida, 2020: 35, 7,231 total
California, 2020: 21.8, 8,908 total

firearm mortality:
Florida, 2021: 14.1, 3,142 total
California, 2021: 9, 3,576 total

Florida, 2020: 13.7, 3,041 total
California, 2020: 8.5, 3,449 total

and that's before we even dive into to wages, poverty line, etc.
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I meant COVID deaths, primarily. I think the numbers show something like 50-100K excess deaths in Florida due to freedumb vs. just encouraging people to be sensible and considerate.
 
Stinky said:
More Ukraine news please.
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Ehhh...mixed bag today

- Something got hit in Odesa tonight, Russia is claiming it was an IRIS-T air defence battery. That would be bad. Pretty significant attacks against cities going on right now tbh. Kyiv air defences holding well apparently.
- Wagner took a bit more of Bakhmut, but allegedly has turned the flanks over to the Russian military and pulled their forces from the flanks. Smells a defeat coming there and wants to blame it on the MOD for not being able to hold.
- Ukrainian range attacks continue on anything resembling command posts and shell storage up and down the line. Probably softening up for the offensive.
 
MindzEye said:
Ehhh...mixed bag today

- Something got hit in Odesa tonight, Russia is claiming it was an IRIS-T air defence battery. That would be bad. Pretty significant attacks against cities going on right now tbh. Kyiv air defences holding well apparently.
- Wagner took a bit more of Bakhmut, but allegedly has turned the flanks over to the Russian military and pulled their forces from the flanks. Smells a defeat coming there and wants to blame it on the MOD for not being able to hold.
- Ukrainian range attacks continue on anything resembling command posts and shell storage up and down the line. Probably softening up for the offensive.
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Russkies have shifted focus from “mass civilian suffering and death” to targeting the Ukrainian air defence systems, it would seem
 
re: Turkey:

Then news began to pop-up of ballot box shenanigans in the Kurdish areas. Then in other areas including the opposition's strongholds like Istanbul. Erdogan immediately weighed in, yelling to stop all this noise and focus on the upcoming decider in two weeks. The opposition's vote-monitoring computers got hacked and disabled so they couldn't double-check the multiplying reports of irregularities. Finally, they filed complaints over thousands of suspect ballot boxes.

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We've seen this movie before, and not just in Turkey but wherever pro-authoritarian voting dumbfounded observers: Moldava, Georgia, Hungary, even Crimea. This column has oft bemoaned the strange phenomenon of all those countries who think that their inexplicably popular tinpot firebrand is unique to them. When, in fact, the pattern of first vaguely fair elections followed by state capture then by constant election rigging is endlessly repeated across the globe. It is now a frequently copied modus operandi. With the Kremlin's original fingerprints ever more visible each time. One common psy-ops feature: always accuse the others of malfeasance you're about to commit. Hence, AK party early disputing the oppo's ballot counts
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doesn't seem like any actual evidence of impropriety yet though
 
Wayward DP said:
David Frum has done a lot of writing about AMLO and his concerning authoritarian tendencies
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Yeah, I thought the guard rails and AMLO's lack of time left in the job would be enough to keep him out of trouble, but this is some authoritarian bullshit.

I've been somewhat following the maya train saga since it started. It is a kind of necessary part of infrastructure for the south of Mexico, it would be kind of huge tbh. But it started going sideways when AMLO buckled to the hotel lobby that didn't want it in a shared right of way with the federal highway that runs the length of the coast between Cancun and Tulum. The new route, of course, was fucking devestating. Unnecessary damage to their rain forest (I've seen estimates of 7-10 million trees set to be cut down, when AMLO promised that not a single tree would be cut down because they were going to use existing right of ways) and now the new route probably runs directly overtop of the cenote cave system, and because of how thin the ceiling wall of some of these cenotes are (less than a few feet thick in places), some of the cenotes themselves would have to be filled in, which would have unknown effects on the aquifer system and ground water in the region.

Should have just told the resorts to fuck off and built it on the original route. Figured he could make the wealthy corps (that are known to wash cartel money) happy, and just use this national security bullshit to jam through his legacy project.
 
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