Against Crony Capitalism Friday Edition

Thanks Zuck but a little late, Sketchiness in Wisconsin, Crony rum, Make friends with a NYC cop - get out of jail, Musical Guest: Thin Lizzy

Mark Zuckerberg's Mea Culpa Moment Is a Bit Late

Yeah. It’s better than nothing but just.

The biggest reason that New Zuck does not move me is that his leftist cheerleader days did an enormous amount of damage that can't be undone. Facebook was a huge revenue generator for sites like this one. The platform aggressively throttled traffic of conservative sites that depended upon it for money in the effort to get Joe Biden into the White House. It completely shut down many prominent conservative accounts.

Facebook was a great partner for the original version of ACC. But once Trump was elected things changed. And we weren’t even a “conservative” news site (not that it should matter). If anything our inclination was and is libertarian and we sought and seek to call out both the right and the left when they get all crony.

Still Facebook made things hard for us.

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"This Was A Mistake": Wisconsin City Clerk Office Confirms It Sent Out 2,200 Duplicate Ballots

We’ll bet it was a mistake.

One of the refrains one hears from the old media is that there is almost no voter fraud. This is total nonsense. If two hundred million ballots are cast there is absolutely going to be some fraud in there.

The thing is the way our voting system is structured in most states voter fraud is very hard to prove. Shoot, the politics in places like Chicago and Louisiana are practically built (or at least were) on systems where voter fraud was widely accepted.

In a related note the below is an interesting tactic. Just make it too unsafe for your opponent to campaign in a key swing state.

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