USA 2020 Elections: Thread

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https://sos.nh.gov/media/b3gple4x/county-cheshire-2020-ada.pdf
Won 16+% "officially", far more than most Libertarians in big races.

"The battle was lost, but the war is looking good.
Was the battle even lost, though? That depends on what the goal of the
battle was..."

"Contrary to popular belief, it isn’t the consent of the governed that
keeps the state in existence; the state is actually preserved by
widespread belief in its divinity..."

https://reformedsatanicchurch.com/
https://effpolice.com/
mastodon:AriaDiMezzo at liberdon.com


https://aria4sheriff.com/2020/11/election-mistakes/
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I’ve been pretty much everywhere in Cheshire County. In fact, one of
my rock bands, FUD, practices in Westmoreland. It’s like 2 stores and
a post office, so it’s not a big place. I knew something was not
right, so I looked up the population of Westmoreland, and it’s 1,697.
That isn’t the total number of registered voters; that’s the entire
population. Yet this town of fewer than 1700 people shows more than
7,000 votes for Rivera. That’s weird.
The correct result for Rivera, according to Paul Cuno-Booth of the
Keene Sentinel, is 768. The election clerk reported 768 directly to
the Sentinel, and presumably to the New Hampshire Secretary of State.
It was in adding these numbers into the spreadsheet that someone at
the Secretary of State’s office screwed up–and in a strange way.
Throw in some intentional deceit and bad actors–people who
intentionally “make mistakes” or simply lie about votes and
results–and you’ve got a recipe for “Holy shit, you’d have to be
touched in the head to have any faith whatsoever in this system.”
The numbers they’re giving us for election results might as well just
be made up on-the-spot when you really think about how much potential
there is for honest mistakes to occur, nevermind the reality of bad
actors.
This provably happened in at least one election in the United States,
and you’d be hopelessly naive to believe that it didn’t happen in
other races. Why are you still trusting in this system? It not only
failed to protect voters from a trans Satanist anarchist as their
Republican candidate for sheriff, it demonstrably produced results of
that election that are incorrect. And this is just one town, in one
county, in one state. Honestly, can you trust any of the numbers being
reported? I think you’d have to be a fool to trust the system at this
point.
We can minimize the damage by seceding from the United States. Not
only is it a bad idea to let the ignorant voters of other states
determine our rulers, it is an even worse idea to allow the mistakes
that can be made in 49 other states determine our ruler. Ideally, we
can eliminate the damage by abolishing the state apparatus entirely,
but a good first step would be to minimize the damage, and we can do
that with secession.
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https://aria4sheriff.com/2020/11/election-reflection/

Election Reflection
Posted on November 5, 2020	

It would be easy to be sad about the election results. For those who
don’t follow me on Twitter, the election results are in, and I did not
do very well. In fact, I probably did the worst of any major-party
candidate in a two-way race throughout the United States. I’m not
really upset by that; getting zero votes (beyond my own and my
friends) was a realistic possibility. I am, after all, a transsexual
anarchist and High Priestess of the Reformed Satanic Church. That is a
whole lot of stuff about which the average voter may pause.

I’m sure there were still some Republicans who went into the voting
booth and blindly voted on party lines, but it honestly couldn’t have
been that high of a percentage of people. It’s hard to entertain the
possibility that 25% of Republican voters in Cheshire County missed
all of the headlines about their… unusual… sheriff candidate. In fact,
the landslide victory for Rivera suggests that the bulk of Republicans
voted for him instead of myself or the write-in candidate Earl Nelson.

But who knows why people voted how they did. Regardless, 25% of voters
in Cheshire County cast their ballot for a transsexual anarchist and
High Priestess of a Satanic church. Despite so much about me being
repugnant to ignorant Republican voters who didn’t bother to actually
learn my positions beyond my slogans, I received nearly twice as many
votes in the general election as I did in the primary. This means that
even more people voted for me Tuesday, after I became a figure that
was almost impossible to miss in Cheshire County.

That, to me, is important.

The battle was lost, but the war is looking good.

Was the battle even lost, though? That depends on what the goal of the
battle was. Was the goal to win the election? Yes? I wanted to win,
but… I’m not exactly upset that I didn’t. This is because I would
have, as Sheriff of Cheshire County, done exactly what I promised I
would do. I said publicly that Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Barack Obama,
and countless other politicians would be arrested for war crimes if
they set foot in Cheshire County and I was Sheriff–and I would have
attempted that.

So let’s be real. The stuff I promised… I know what the consequences
of it would have been. It was not “all talk,” and I would have done
every bit of it. And it would have led to my death or a lifelong
prison sentence. I wasn’t looking forward to that, and I knew that was
where the path would go. Even if no such politician ever came to
Cheshire County, that wasn’t the only plan I had to be a perpetual
wrench in the state’s gears. I would have repeatedly committed
Contempt of Court by refusing to take people guilty of only victimless
crimes to jail. What would have been the repercussions of that? It’s
impossible to say, but they wouldn’t have been good for my life or my
freedom. If you push back against the state hard enough, it will
eventually just remove you from the equation.

Beyond that, however, there is the fact that winning was not my only
goal. My goal is liberty in my lifetime; winning the sheriff’s race
would only have been one step toward that end. Winning was not the
only step taken toward that end. I spoke to 40+ college students about
how the state is a religion, and why they should oppose the state on
all fronts. I convinced liberals that mask mandates are bad when we
can instead reason with people like adults. I took the ideas of
liberty into the metal world (much to my surprise). I brought the
ideas to the Christians at the Next Level Church. I gained thousands
of followers on Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook, and I’m using those
platforms to spread the ideas of freedom. Major news outlets quoted my
posts here on the campaign site. I brought hope to countless LGBTQ+
people. In fact, it seems the only people who were upset with me were
the AnComs and the Republicans.

Friends are reporting that they’re having conversations with people
who intend to move to New Hampshire, and Keene in particular, because
of me. And that’s what we need, because we need the numbers to allow
for secession from the United States, so that ignorant voters in
California don’t have ten times the power to choose who rules New
Hampshire as the actual, literal people of New Hampshire. I’ve
promoted the Free State Project (despite having no affiliation with
it) and liberty candidates, and it seems that people are listening.

It’s a great place to be in. While many of the people I’ve reached
would ordinarily recoil at the ideas of liberty, I get to cheat. I’m a
metal-head. I’m a Satanist. I’m a trans pansexual. Their walls and
defense mechanisms are down by default when they talk to me; they
don’t simply reject what I’m saying out of hand in the way that they
would if, say, Mark Edge approached them with the same ideas. That’s a
powerful thing, and you can’t tabulate it in the same way that you can
count votes.

I’ve received letters, emails, and postcards from LGBTQ+ people who
tell me that I’ve inspired them. I don’t consider myself a
trailblazer. I’m just doing my thing here. I’m literally just doing
whatever I want, and whatever my mock alter ego Drunk Aria comes up
with. I’m not trying to be a hero, inspiration, trailblazer, or troll.
I’m just being me, and having fun. There was no part of this shitshow
that I didn’t enjoy on a deep level. Even when 100+ signs of mine were
stolen from around Cheshire County, I couldn’t stop laughing–and,
indeed, I did a Bible Study on the subject of stealing.

When my car was vandalized, my official response was a freaking
Rickroll and a joke about it being a gender reveal, not a hate crime.

I had fun. And that’s what matters to me.

I had fun while reaching people with the ideas of liberty and
conveying a serious message to an interested audience. That’s Peak
Activism if you ask me.

The only regret I have is that so many thought that my entire point
was just to show how ignorant the average voter is about the people
they’re voting for. I’m sorry to reveal this to you, but… that was an
accident. I expected 25-50 votes in the Republican Primary, as I
suspected most primary voters wouldn’t vote for a person about whom
they knew nothing. Instead, the results were astounding: 4200+ people
voted for me, presumably without knowing the first thing about me.
That was the assumption, given the negative reaction there was to the
fact that a transsexual Satanist anarchist was their sheriff
candidate.

I never intended to make the point that I made. However, seeing the
negative backlash and questions of “How did this happen?” sat in the
back of my mind for a few days. The backlash was immediate, of course,
but it just sat on the backburner: “This isn’t my fault. This is the
voters’ fault. Why are they blaming me? They are the ones who voted
for me despite knowing nothing about me.” Finally, on September 11, I
decided to make a post about it. It just so happened that the next
day, the story of my victory went worldwide. So when people came to my
campaign site, that was the post they saw. The takeaway, for many, was
that I was trolling Republicans.

That wasn’t the case. I was just exploiting the infrastructure of the
Republican Party to run for office, because it was easy and expedient.
Making Republicans look silly was incidental. I did then try to do the
same to the other side. My lawsuit against the City of Keene and
Governor Sununu over the mask mandates broke just a few days later,
and I expected a lot of backlash from the liberals who suddenly
supported me, over the fact that I am against mandates. Unfortunately,
that never came to fruition, because my position… made a bit too much
sense. I’m an anarchist, so they couldn’t be too surprised that I
oppose any and all mandates from the state. Some were, but it didn’t
happen in large enough numbers to have the same “Gotcha!” as did my
winning the Republican Primary.

Honestly, I was trying to troll Democrats, but I was too upfront for
that to have worked, and that’s fine. I’d rather be upfront and
honest. There was, however, no trap laid for Republicans. I just did
my thing, and the results were what they were. I’m generally
unpredictable, even to myself, and this time it just happened to
produce almost two solid months of non-stop lulz. We all had fun.

    If you’re not having fun, then you’re doing it wrong.

    — Ian Freeman of Free Talk Live

Vermin Supreme is having fun. I’m having fun. Are you having fun?

If you’re not, I’d recommend some psilocybin cubensis–aka “magic
mushrooms”–to teach you how to have fun. Life is too short to get
worked up over stuff. Freedom and liberty are the ideas that motivate
me, and I want freedom and liberty because, fuck, I’m a mortal being
here on this random rock orbiting a random star in a random part of a
random galaxy in a universe beyond my comprehension. I want to have
fun with these few decades through which I can enjoy the gift of
existence. I don’t want to change the world. I just want to lie on my
deathbed and be able to say to myself, with honesty, that I had as
much fun with my brief existence in this ocean of confusion and chaos
that I could possibly have had.

I want to enjoy my life. Do you want to enjoy yours?

If you’re fixated on the presidential election, the U.S. Congress, the
national debt, and this other bullshit, I’ll have a hard time
believing that you appreciate your mortality and want to enjoy your
brief existence. Those things don’t matter. They would vanish tomorrow
if we just stopped allowing them, and we can stop allowing them by
choosing love over fear. Choose Bitcoin. Choose love. Choose peace.

You’re going to die. And even if you manage to do something that
creates a legacy that is heralded for thousands of years, you, too,
will eventually fade. You will be forgotten, and everything you ever
did will be inconsequential and meaningless. You are meaningless. So
am I.

So let’s have some fun in our few decades here. We don’t have to be
violent. We don’t have to be fearful. The only thing we have to do is
someday die. Until then, your life is yours. Stop obeying. Stop being
afraid. Stop living in hate. Fuck them and fuck their system.

Live, laugh, love.