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So for, for folks who don't know, it's important to v- take a very quick detour back to 1964.

At the time, we were plagued across the country, particularly in the South, by Jim Crow laws, which were laws that were designed to keep constitutionally protected rights to vote for Black Americans from being able to exercise those rights.

And this is everything from poll taxes to literacy tests to illegal gerrymandering, and it was designed to keep Black voters from participating in the process.

And then in 1964, we passed the Civil Rights Act, and in 1965, we passed the Voting Rights Act, and these two pieces of legislation are largely credited with ending that era of Jim Crow policies, which was also outside of the law, the realm of electoralism.

That's also at the heart of things like separate but equal.

So it's not an exaggeration to say the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is part of what ended Jim Crow.

So, so that's what I wanna hit you with, is if the worst happens, what next? What is the way forward and- How do we deal with it?

Mm-hmm.

So keep in mind it was, like, written in 2001, and this game goes on to criticize, like, proxy wars, media consolidation, the overflow of, like, bad information on the internet that leads to the inability to tell what's reliable and what's not, that AI is gonna step in and start making decisions for us, and we're not gonna be able to start distinguishing who real people are from computers.

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Uh, and so in the, in the second game, you start off as Solid Snake, and you're, you know, you're, you're the world's most badass super spy.

And then about an hour and a half in, they pull the rug out from under you and they tell you, "Actually, for this game you're not gonna play Solid Snake.

You're gonna play a green rookie who's on his first mission ever, who's a little whiny and a little emotional, and he spends half the game having a fight with his girlfriend on the phone."

Take it from there.

Yeah.

Well, so first of all, uh, I, I wanna mention that, uh-The, the countries that don't use any form of proportional representation, like I m- mentioned at the top, are quite rare.

Uh, it's, it's, in terms of major democracies, it's really the US, UK, France, and Canada.

And three of those...

Two of those are former British colonies, one is Britain.

Uh, there are other countries that don't use a full proportional system, like Australia.

No, me.