So the American occupations rigged the Italian and Japanese post-WWII election systems pretty steeply, as a necessary condition of keeping Communists out of power (who were expected from Iron Curtain precedent to eliminate any possibility of being removed from power and defect to the Soviet Bloc).
If you will remember your economic materialism this is what you would expect from industrial powers without imperial hinterlands. (This is what the WWII authoritarian culture-states were meant to prevent while they assembled empires!)
@youzicha said: Didn’t @xhxhxhx discuss this petty exhaustively, concluding that the Japanese election system wasn’t rigged?
Maybe? My context is the Cornell Asian Studies program, which is a feeder for/academic arm of the American foreign service/intelligence/military area experts, where my professors were like “oh, my grad advisor was at that postwar conference, he told us how they rigged it”
The major elements were
Orchestrating a merger of the Liberal and Democratic Parties into the pan-establishmentarian LDP, supported by advisors and cash drops
Multi-member districts in cities, where Communists having greatest strength, 22 individual districts would elect 22 communists but one unified proportional city would send 12 and a smattering of others
Not updating district borders as rural population flooded into cities, creating “rotten borough” districts the LDP could buy with agricultural subsidies
So I minored in Asian Studies (Japan) but beyond just learning about Japan, it was in part an education in mechanics of postwar American empire.
So the American occupations rigged the Italian and Japanese post-WWII election systems pretty steeply, as a necessary condition of keeping Communists out of power (who were expected from Iron Curtain precedent to eliminate any possibility of being removed from power and defect to the Soviet Bloc).
If you will remember your economic materialism this is what you would expect from industrial powers without imperial hinterlands. (This is what the WWII authoritarian culture-states were meant to prevent while they assembled empires!)
My fingers were a little clumsy last week, and not only did stepping down to 4 scoops/day creatine not take, 5 felt pushing it, and I’m feeling a bit of iron hunger even with 2 pills twice daily… I DO suspect that was a 9th case boosting the echoes. If so it would be the weakest boost yet so far, I had said I didn’t expect to feel them past 11 but I might not even notice 10.
Yeah, before 5 scoops was good enough I wasn’t even that bad taking it the next morning, but now I’m getting worn already before midnight, and I’ve increased to 6 iron pills/day (that’s still never gone down yet since it originally showed up at 1/day).
In a new moment of mother daughter bonding my mom and I just broke into the empty apartment next door. In our defense the door was unlocked and all the lights were on and we know for a fact they don’t live there anymore but. I picked the lock to the master bedroom and
it’s. it’s certainly a location
[id: a photograph of a toilet that has been detached from the floor and is now sitting in the bathtub. The toilet tank cover has been taken off is laying sideways on top of the tank.]
Removing the toilet renders the unit legally uninhabitable, which may be advantageous for tax and regulatory reasons for a unit not expected to be filled shortly.
Okay, went to smash that last bit of Blueberry Hill, found some steady ground to the side but after a few swings realized it was steady cause it was thin dirt atop some still-intact planks, so I smashed them for a while.
Also weeding, clearing out this one grass from the front that’s much taller (and leggier and unplush) that used to be like 80% of the cover.
Taking an hour break then I’ll go back out, got some other stuff in mind.
More weeding, flat-smashed all the stuff I’d sharped, then covered the wood in the dugout with pine boughs, then covered that with the wood I’d been smashing up, I’ll cover that with grass clippings in a week or two. Also, built half my (pressure treated) scrapwood into a bonfire.
