If you're writing something from scratch, though, you'd expect numerous revisions/deletions over time instead of just writing it from top to bottom in one shot. Rearranging sentences, changing phrasing, starting with the body of the work and coming back to write the intro later with lots of [insert thesis statement here] placeholders.
I normally like Glenn's writing but this is just FUD. Historically it has always taken days to count up all the votes due to the heterogeneity of the ballot systems used by the State's. Not to mention the actual electors in the College don't even vote until December - and aren't always faithful to the popular vote.
People are acting like this is the end of the world or some horrible crisis that we don't know the outcome instantly. Patience goes a long way.
He is not claiming the problems are recent either. He is explicitly saying the problems predate even the disputed 2000's cycle.
His point stripped of the vitriol is the trust in the system is eroded when there is substantial delays in declaring the result.
It is important in a fragile democracy to declare the results without delay, it is also why countries like Brazil do it fast.
Sadly America is a fragile democracy today, the sitting President inability to commit to peaceful transfer of power , prematurely claiming victory, trying to stop counting , or constant attacks on the integrity of the election and fraudulent votes , if it is any other country you would agree without question.
It is by design that each state has heterogeneous voting system , However while nation thinks it votes for the president it is just voting a guidance to their legislature on who the electors should be,there is no constitutional protection otherwise. Just this election 15$/hour minimum wage and other policy items have been passed by same people who have voted for trump , clearly policy is not deciding factor to elect the president.
It is important to align the system to what people think they are voting for,
What's the story? That Hunter Biden smoked crack and got a footjob? The NYT, WaPo, and Wall Street Journal all reported on the supposed connections in the emails tying Joe into this and all came up with little to no evidence of any wrongdoing, fraud, or conspiracy. Glenn's (former) editor points this out to him and then Glenn cites the Daily Caller, which is hardly a reputable source.
As someone who has worked in the publishing world, including erotica and "romance" novels, a lot of the retrograde attitudes you see depicted in this article are very much alive today in the US. Perhaps not encoded in law, but it is difficult, for instance, to find a distributor for this material that also caters to a more urbane audience.
Romance / erotica books do not have to be trash, they can very much be moving works of fiction in their own right. But places like McNally Johnson won't buy this kind of stuff even though it does sell very well online. Platforms like Instagram make it difficult as well - Twitter is really the only remaining mainstream platform that will not censor images for pornographic content. You can't use payment processors like PayPal or Stripe either, at least not if you want to keep your money consistently. You have to play a war of attrition with keywords on your site so you can hit SEO thresholds but not set off any content sniffing that payment processors do.
Meanwhile, sell a book about serial killers and everything's hunky-dory. That book can even include heinous sexual transgressions depicted in gruesome detail but as long as you don't have nipples on the cover or 'erotica' in the copy Stripe will cash you out all day long
If you use Reddit Enhancement Suite on old.reddit.com you can still sort comments and do all sorts of power users things
- including running scripts / plugins! Yes, reddit actually used to encourage that sort of development. I still run an old old old plugin to delete my comments after a week
