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Just the biggest limiter on terrorism of all sorts has always just been not that many people want to do it. But especially if you can do it with machines like it becomes easy, like at least in the past, doing something really bad was kind of a suicide thing. But now it doesn't even have to be that you can build a machine that does it.
Exactly. Exactly. So when you look at any election, you know, there's a certain amount of people who turn out for it. And so I bet we can even look up here where it's like Wisconsin in the 2024 presidential race is going to be. Let's see how many people vote.
Exactly. Exactly. So when you look at any election, you know, there's a certain amount of people who turn out for it. And so I bet we can even look up here where it's like Wisconsin in the 2024 presidential race is going to be. Let's see how many people vote.
Yeah. So about three million.
Yeah. So about three million.
You're almost three point three point three million.
You're almost three point three point three million.
Three. So three point three million people voted in 2024. Now let's check. We had a 2023 Supreme Court race in Wisconsin.
Three. So three point three million people voted in 2024. Now let's check. We had a 2023 Supreme Court race in Wisconsin.
Let's go. I think it's a bit higher than that, but we'll check here. One point about one point eight million. So literally about barely half as maybe like 60 percent as many votes.
Let's go. I think it's a bit higher than that, but we'll check here. One point about one point eight million. So literally about barely half as maybe like 60 percent as many votes.
As in the presidential race and we lost that one I believe and yeah we got we got we lost by by 10 points but if you had the number of people who voted in the 2024 presidential election come and turn out in that race or even the number of people who voted in 2020 when we finished in second ultimately like.
As in the presidential race and we lost that one I believe and yeah we got we got we lost by by 10 points but if you had the number of people who voted in the 2024 presidential election come and turn out in that race or even the number of people who voted in 2020 when we finished in second ultimately like.
if you had that many people turn out you would win by a mile it's not even oh you would eke out a win you would crush them it is entirely a matter of turnout it is who gets their people to care about this race that is not in a normal election cycle exactly
if you had that many people turn out you would win by a mile it's not even oh you would eke out a win you would crush them it is entirely a matter of turnout it is who gets their people to care about this race that is not in a normal election cycle exactly
I just want to drive home how much turnout matters. If you had John McCain lost Wisconsin by 14 points in 2008, and if you had his number of votes in that Supreme Court race, you would win by like 20 points.
I just want to drive home how much turnout matters. If you had John McCain lost Wisconsin by 14 points in 2008, and if you had his number of votes in that Supreme Court race, you would win by like 20 points.
Smaller population, way smaller turnout. It is entirely a turnout race.
Smaller population, way smaller turnout. It is entirely a turnout race.
Most prisons are state funded, like the vast majority.