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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Honestly, I’m for it, especially once I read the part about them having been modernized once before. Notre Dame is neither a museum or a ruin (or at least, not a ‘natural’/pre-existing ruin, for lack of a better term); it’s a working church in continuous use and should be treated as such.

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for them also recreating the 19th century ones (and the 12th century ones too, if they have good references for them), but then displaying them elsewhere as a museum exhibit. (It could be in the context of an exhibit about stained glass art, or one about the history of the cathedral, or even one about the fire and reconstruction specifically.)










  • https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-election-boards-swing-states

    TL;DR: because this time they have state election officials on their side.

    They will create enough FUD about the results to either get Trump EC votes he didn’t legitimately win, or to throw out enough EC votes entirely that neither candidate gets to 270 and the election is decided by a “one state, one vote” poll in the House.

    Last time, the 50+ lawsuits trying to throw out election results failed because there was no fraud to be found. This time, they will succeed because disposable MAGA followers will have manufactured it themselves. As we’ve seen with those previous lawsuits as well as Trump v United States, the MAGA SCOTUS won’t go so far as to blatantly ignore 100% of reality to rule in favor of Trump, but will seize upon any flimsy excuse they can find to spin their decisions in his favor. Any real election fraud – even if we all know it’s done on Trump’s behalf – will be the fig leaf that covers SCOTUS as it falls over itself to coronate him.