This Villainess Wants a Divorce! - Vol. 2 Ch. 50
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No, Cesar... YOU'RE unfair. *swoons*
Ooo, older bro is a hefty snacc!!
Ooo, older bro is a hefty snacc!!
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Historically speaking, plural voting was common in many countries with inequalities between the rich and the poor. "One man, One vote." didn't fully take traction until 1950-60's with the advent of the Civil Rights Movement.
Historically speaking, plural voting was common in many countries with inequalities between the rich and the poor. "One man, One vote." didn't fully take traction until 1950-60's with the advent of the Civil Rights Movement.
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I was joking about the very specific 3/5ths figure. You know, as a reference to the other famous 3/5ths representation figure.
I was joking about the very specific 3/5ths figure. You know, as a reference to the other famous 3/5ths representation figure.
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In the US, for example, except for shortly after the Constitution was ratified when all citizens could vote (as argued by 19th & early 20th century feminist, suffragette, and the only woman to win a Congressional medal of Honor [she wanted as a civilian because they wouldn't give her as an active practicing doctor and surgeon military Commission during the Civil War so instead she was hired on and received it after being captured by enemy troops after a battle after successfully helping enemy surgeons with an amputation] Dr. Mary Edwards Walker—she is BOSS—when they tried to retroactively take away her MoH, which she rightly earned for going A&BTCOD after the white-boy's-club retroactively eliminated medal of Honor recipients [can't have no brothers of color nor any sisters with the medal, could they?], I might add, the Marshalls who came to retrieve it were met with Dr. Walker in a suit & 🎩 brandishing her loaded double barrel shotgun wearing her medal of Honor around her neck, all—"Go ahead & make my day, punk!" crazy granny style.), only landowning men (later narrowed down further as old, recovered cases from the early Supreme Court articulate that showed the post Civil War cases against blacks went beyond even those of the oligarchics of the Continental Army & early Republic) could vote.
This trend came as a consequence of the reaction (in part) to the landholding/Rentier class (referred to as "the landed interests" in the Constitutional Conventions) that would exploit poor people who lived on "their" land and thus threaten them with starvation or use other duplicitous means to secure votes that benefited the most powerful people at the expense of the multitudes. This prompted people like Justice James Wilson to propose expanding the vote & much as possible and expanding the population into areas where people could take up land ownership that wasn't held by the titles of the King & related interests. The 3/5ths compromise (which he also proposed) was between white slavers getting to get to vote for their slaves (the slaves didn't get a right to vote; they would get treated as a token or counter to increase the powers of slavers to increase the slavers' power in Congress & thus seek to expand the transatlantic slave trade, whereas those diametrically opposed [on economic terms to slavery vs industrialization; what was seen in the northern States] to slavery wanted to limit the power these slavers had in Congress. It was never about the question of slaves having a right to vote. It was about whether slavers should get to count enslaved people as proxy votes that they would be able to use for whatever interested them. They "claimed" it was for the "welfare" of said enslaved peoples, yet while perhaps a marginal few met those criteria, the vast majority were pushing for more economic & political power to ensure slavery never ended.
We see a similar practice in the DNC with "Superdelegates" who possess the power to override the wills of the electorates in order to ensure that monied interests get to protect their political "investments."
An ancient example would be when ancient Rome suffered from corrupt mass privatization that transpired during the height of the Punic Wars (slimebag politicians screw over the masses & confiscate farmlands to sell to wealthy rentiers who then use corrupted lending practices to enslave large portions of society into "bondage" as "bondservants"). The long term consequences were a mass Exodus from farming communities to Rome itself (at the height I've Roman power the city of Rome had over three million people). Because Rome never "redistricted" the ancient Roman Republican voting systems, what was originally the areas where the vast majority of citizens once resided eventually became run by a limited number of families the "latifundia " or "latifundium" (large & wealthy land holding and slave-holding estates/families that typically had their own private armies). The organization was setup around the ancient Legions. The wealthy families would simply pay to hire soldiers to fight in the Legions in order to pad the empty troop rosters depleted by the mass Exodus of the voting citizenry. [Think the Transnational Capitalist Class, multinational/Transnational corporations, corporate republic, "Pay-to-Play" politics, and "corporations as people" for modern equivalents.]
While despotic, this is an ancient example of tyranny (though, the act of redistributing wealth & debt forgiveness/legal forgiveness of "sins" is far more ancient still. See works by economist Michael Hudson. "…and forgive them their debts": Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year (THE TYRANNY OF DEBT Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QGFZ7DW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Ga8YDb7F6FMHM for details.)
This trend came as a consequence of the reaction (in part) to the landholding/Rentier class (referred to as "the landed interests" in the Constitutional Conventions) that would exploit poor people who lived on "their" land and thus threaten them with starvation or use other duplicitous means to secure votes that benefited the most powerful people at the expense of the multitudes. This prompted people like Justice James Wilson to propose expanding the vote & much as possible and expanding the population into areas where people could take up land ownership that wasn't held by the titles of the King & related interests. The 3/5ths compromise (which he also proposed) was between white slavers getting to get to vote for their slaves (the slaves didn't get a right to vote; they would get treated as a token or counter to increase the powers of slavers to increase the slavers' power in Congress & thus seek to expand the transatlantic slave trade, whereas those diametrically opposed [on economic terms to slavery vs industrialization; what was seen in the northern States] to slavery wanted to limit the power these slavers had in Congress. It was never about the question of slaves having a right to vote. It was about whether slavers should get to count enslaved people as proxy votes that they would be able to use for whatever interested them. They "claimed" it was for the "welfare" of said enslaved peoples, yet while perhaps a marginal few met those criteria, the vast majority were pushing for more economic & political power to ensure slavery never ended.
We see a similar practice in the DNC with "Superdelegates" who possess the power to override the wills of the electorates in order to ensure that monied interests get to protect their political "investments."
An ancient example would be when ancient Rome suffered from corrupt mass privatization that transpired during the height of the Punic Wars (slimebag politicians screw over the masses & confiscate farmlands to sell to wealthy rentiers who then use corrupted lending practices to enslave large portions of society into "bondage" as "bondservants"). The long term consequences were a mass Exodus from farming communities to Rome itself (at the height I've Roman power the city of Rome had over three million people). Because Rome never "redistricted" the ancient Roman Republican voting systems, what was originally the areas where the vast majority of citizens once resided eventually became run by a limited number of families the "latifundia " or "latifundium" (large & wealthy land holding and slave-holding estates/families that typically had their own private armies). The organization was setup around the ancient Legions. The wealthy families would simply pay to hire soldiers to fight in the Legions in order to pad the empty troop rosters depleted by the mass Exodus of the voting citizenry. [Think the Transnational Capitalist Class, multinational/Transnational corporations, corporate republic, "Pay-to-Play" politics, and "corporations as people" for modern equivalents.]
While despotic, this is an ancient example of tyranny (though, the act of redistributing wealth & debt forgiveness/legal forgiveness of "sins" is far more ancient still. See works by economist Michael Hudson. "…and forgive them their debts": Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year (THE TYRANNY OF DEBT Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QGFZ7DW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Ga8YDb7F6FMHM for details.)
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I like those two together- I felt I lot of tension first half of the chapter
