Please excuse the Cassandrafreude, but here we are nearly 7 months later and we now have the app, it is called the U.S Postal Service. Will the app manage to escape any of Dave's points of critique? It is beginning to occur to me that manifesting beside the rise of bad-faith science (bogus climate studies supporting denial, bogus pharmaceutical trials, and the like) comes a reactionary position to increasingly support inaction as the path of moral high-ground, in the face of incomplete knowledge. While some may believe this strategy to be 'correct', it leaves bad-faith actors to make the big moves while the purists hole up, finding themselves besieged and confined to ivory towers. What remains of the republic is at risk and not just at the hands of those that seek to dismantle it, but also by those too paralyzed by the righteousness of certainty to protect it. Somehow, I would have much preferred to find myself complaining in November about the failures of a first-gen voting app than whining about losing another of our critical institutions as we cower in the post-democratic apocalypse.
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