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thatonecrookedsmile · 28 days

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["So what can you expect in the coming months?"] ["…you never know!"] ["He’s always watching me..."] ["-I saw Mister Drew the other day…was meeting with that Connor fellow, holding some papers."] ["I think they saw me looking though…"] ["Just too many secrets being cooked up in the kitchen!"] ["If I didn’t know better, I’d say there was magic there."] ["A well calculated understanding between creation-"] ["-big things are coming!"] ["-and creator."] ["Massive things!"] ["That smile…"] ["..you just learn to go with it."] ["He’s always watching me..."] ["You just watch…"] ["I’ve got a good feeling something great is going to happen…”]

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…How very interesting,such… knowledge.

{A message from Wilson Arch}

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Yoooo, guess who is having a birthday today. Me,obviously. :D

Oh, and Wilson too, I guess. If you wanna be THAT guy.

Remember when this video came out there were people who heard the voice at the end and thought the voice was either Sammy or the Ink Demon? Man, those were the days. However with all due respect, I'm glad neither case was right in the end lol.

On this day 5 years ago, "Unknown - April 14th" was posted on YouTube, which means it's been 5 damn years since we first heard from Wilson...

man, what a damn BABY MAN, am i right folks

It's interesting to think that even though it's been 5 years, we've only known who Wilson really is for 2 years now (or more appropriately, 1 year and 5 months of those 5 years). Of course, now, after BATDR was released, we know who he is and what his place is in the Bendy universe. But between April 1, 2019 and November 1, 2022, all we knew about him was that he…existed. He was someone - someone bad apparently - who sounded old and who would have some relevance in the plot of Dark Revival. And that's it. We had no name, no appearance, nothing. He was someone, but we didn't know who.

It's no wonder he was only referred to as "Unknown" by fans during these 3 and a half years.

In the end, I would say that this drawing is a mix of 2 things. The first being the result of an idea I've had for a while, which is basically making a drawing in relation to the original video/"unknown" tape, but this time with Wilson, since now we know it was recorded by him. Plus it's been 5 years since the original upload,5 years of Wilson. I think this would be the perfect time to do this.

And second, a strange kind of redux/homage/"final chapter" in this kind of "collection" of drawings I did between 2019 and 2022 all based on the idea of "the unknown weirdo from BATDR saying How Very Interesting Such Knowledge" and so on. All of them having other characters in mind in the role of the Unknown. And now, here I am, redoing this idea again, only with The Man Himself this time. The real Unknown. Now as the Known, so to speak.

Going back to what I said before, you can see this drawing as a kind of farewell to this particular idea that I've kind of repeated over the years, as I've now done it again only with Wilson this time. (Does this mean I'll never draw this concept/line of thought again? I mean, I assume so. But there's no guarantee I can't make something similar again down the line. Who knows what the future holds. We will see what happens in the next 5 years.)

But,yeah. 5 years of Such Knowledge™.

Have a good April Fools' Day.

(Also, there are still a few hours until the day ends where I live, so for me it's still April 1st, so yeah, this still counts)

#bendy and the ink machine #batim #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #wilson arch #crookedsmileart #I'm going to start headcanon that Wilson's birthday is on April Fools. It fits him 😌#yo perspective SUCKS; who created this;i'm gonna beat them until there's no more.#also;lighting is so. hard;how do you all do it #Does anyone have tips for lighting; it would be a huge help /gen #also also;drawing the audio logs was a BATTLE. It was sooo boring; why do I do this to myself #so many details and I had to do it in 7 of them; and it's because these are the DR models;which have more details;#if I had to make them based on IM models I would probably make them simpler. But I wanted to be accurate :-)))#since we are on this subject (and I'm 99% sure of this)#Did you know that the textures in the audio log models used in the final game #are different to those used in the videos published between Feb and April 2019? and a little less detailed?#I realized this when I was looking for references for the drawing #the audio logs in those videos and the audio logs in the final game are not the same thing (at least in terms of texture)#Next time you play BATDR; think about this lol /hj #in retrospect; I don't think those audio logs published at the time would really be relevant to the game's plot #and I think that in the end their purpose was (besides worldbuilding i guess) just to tease the existence of Wilson #I still think that Joey's audio was supposed to be more of a meta thing since the real JDS was actually growing during that time #in my head; that at least makes sense (referring to the last 2 tags)#anyway;happy birthday Wilson;you old bitch #ok i finally post this;now back to the HOG

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theliberaltony · 5 years

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Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited.

sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): Today we’re back with a 2020 snake draft!!! But with a twist — no discussion of the “Big 6,” which we’re defining as the early polling front-runners: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris and Beto O’Rourke.

The idea is that we’ll discuss which candidates still have breakout star potential even though they’re not leading in the polls. For example, Buttigieg is now part of the “Big 6,” but he certainly wasn’t when he announced in late January — some pollsters weren’t even including him! So it’s entirely possible that someone else might capture the lead and oust one of the six. Or someone else could still announce?!

The rules are as follows: Three rounds, so between the four of us, we’ll pick 12 potential 2020 Democratic breakout stars (not necessarily who we think will win the nomination). Let’s determine the order. (I’m going to write our names on scraps of paper and then pester someone in the office to draw them out of a bag.)

The order:

Nathaniel

Nate

Sarah

Perry

And remember, it’s a

draft, so you’ll get the last pick of Round 1 and the first of Round 2, Perry.

nrakich (Nathaniel Rakich, elections analyst): Sweet.

sarahf: Kick us off, Nathaniel.

natesilver (Nate Silver, editor in chief): You said Nathaniel had the first pick and I’m named Nathaniel — confusing.

nrakich: Wow rude.

sarahf: But Nathaniel Rakich … doesn’t go by Nate?

OK, NATHANIEL RAKICH, take it away.

nrakich: To me, there’s a clear No. 1 pick here, and his or her name is …

Cory Booker, the junior senator from New Jersey.

To me, he’s the strongest candidate in the race after the Big 6.

He hasn’t blown the doors off in the polls, but he’s still getting a nonzero amount, which is something in a field this large!

sarahf: Conveniently, RealClearPolitics’s polling average actually puts him in … seventh place.

perry (Perry Bacon Jr., senior writer): Yes, I think he is the most likely candidate outside of the first six to win. But in trying to keep himself viable, I wonder if he ends up 1) not winning, and 2) not saying anything interesting enough to have a moment.

And while voters may not know much about him, journalists do — he’s been in the public eye for a long time. So I wonder if that limits his ability to get all of the “look how cool he is” coverage that Mayor Pete got.

nrakich: Yeah, there is real voter interest in Booker. He gets a lot of Google search interest relative to the other lower- and mid-tier candidates, for example.

And he has gotten the most newspaper coverage (as measured at NewsLibrary.com) of anyone outside the Big 6 in the last 30 days, plus the second-most cable news coverage of the lower-tier candidates last week.

perry: I don’t doubt Booker is being covered, but I’d argue it’s different from the way Mayor Pete is covered on MSNBC and CNN, i.e. with a lot of curiosity and interest (“He’s gay” or “He’s young”) that Booker is not getting.

nrakich: That’s fair, but another upside for Booker is that he also has a natural constituency with African Americans, who have regularly backed the winner in recent Democratic primaries (and who are underrepresented among those who make coverage decisions at MSNBC and CNN).

natesilver: It seems fairly likely that some of Biden’s strength among black voters will fade.

Even the Biden campaign expects that, judging by what I heard when I talked to them.

At the same time, if I’m Booker — or Harris — I’m sorta wondering why I’m not making more progress or getting more endorsements from black leaders.

And on the media coverage, Booker got quite a bit of coverage early on, and he’s in the NYC media market, so I don’t know if that’s a great excuse.

With that said, is he the seventh most likely nominee? Sure, I guess, although you could also make a case for the person I’m about to pick.

nrakich: cough Klobuchar cough

sarahf: End the suspense, Nate!

natesilver: I’ll take the Klob.

nrakich: Readers, Nate was kind enough to publish his entire pre-draft ranking in advance.

natesilver: Well, my ratings may have changed since the last Silver Bulletpoints!

But, yeah, I’m taking The Klob.

sarahf: So what’s the case for Klobuchar and her moment?

natesilver: I don’t think her campaign is off to a great start. But, for better or worse, I’m not sure she was expecting to have a great start either. Her campaign’s theory of the case was that they’d perform well in the debates and then surge in Iowa.

That’s still on the table. Although I don’t think she’s helped by some of the other candidates who are doing well. Buttigieg is a problem for her. Maybe Warren too. And Biden is off to a pretty good start, it looks like.

All of those candidates crowd her lanes to one degree or another.

If Biden stumbles, however, she’s one of the more likely beneficiaries.

If Buttigieg stumbles, there’s an opening for a Midwesterner in Iowa.

So she’s sort of waiting in the wings.

sarahf: Klobuchar does seem to be doing well among early-state activists, so if her strategy is to surge and win Iowa, maybe there is still a window for her there, though I agree it would require Biden fizzling out.

Which candidates early-state activists are considering

Share of respondents who said they were considering a candidate or had already committed to support a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary

activists considering supporting Candidate Dec. 2018 Feb. 2019 April Harris 61%

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Booker 45

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Warren 24

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Buttigieg —

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Klobuchar 34

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Gillibrand 21

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Sanders 29

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Biden 39

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McAuliffe 5

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Castro —

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O’Rourke 34

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Hickenlooper 21

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Bennet —

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Inslee —

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Gabbard —

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Yang —

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Delaney 16

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Source: Seth Masket, “Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016-2020”

perry: But it’ll be hard for her to win with the electability-focused campaign that she is running — because I think voters have decided that “electablity” means a man. (I disagree with that, but voters keep saying that to reporters.)

I would argue Klobuchar has a strong electability case, based on her history of winning with big margins in Minnesota. But I think voters are not inclined to view women as electable. Also, her platform (“That’s a good idea, but we can’t afford that”) is not ideal for a breakout moment.

natesilver: Amy Klobuchar: That’s A Good Idea, But We Can’t Afford It

Maybe there’s an opportunity for her on an issue where she’s fairly wonky, but most of the wonks are pretty lefty and she’s more moderate.

sarahf: OK … I guess I’m up. My pick is Washington Governor Jay Inslee. Sure, he’s predominantly running on one issue — climate change — but it’s an issue that’s become increasingly important among Democratic voters to the point where I think it might be ready to have a moment, especially when you consider the ambitions laid out in the Green New Deal.

It’s something that could attract a lot of young voters and members of the party’s left, in particular. (I was also impressed that he got Bill Nye the Science Guy in his announcement video, although he doesn’t count as an endorser at FiveThirtyEight.)

The real issue with Inslee’s candidacy is he would need to broaden his appeal in a general election environment, as climate change is such a polarizing issue between the two parties — but I do think it lends itself well to a moment.

nrakich: Yeah, agreed. Inslee is actually a pretty traditional presidential candidate — governor of a mid-sized state — who in, like, the ’90s probably would have been seen as a big name in the race. So I think that, if the time came when he had to push beyond climate change as an issue, he could do it.

It’s not the worst plan in the world. Step 1: Talk a bunch about climate change. Step 2: Get some attention. Step 3: Start talking about everything else.

perry: I just think he’s too boring. I respect him, but I just think he’s not interesting (he’s not say, gay, young, a self-described socialist or a former VP) and will have a hard time breaking through. Plus, all of the candidates are talking about climate change — O’Rourke just put out a big proposal on the issue. Unless Inslee has some really radical climate idea, that won’t make him pop. And Inslee is not really a radical.

Also, he’s not well-positioned on the electability question — Democrats will win Washington state.

natesilver: I don’t know why Inslee isn’t doing better. And just to be slightly trollish, he sort of cuts against the theory that “only male candidates get attention.”

But he does reinforce the theory that the media doesn’t care that much about climate change.

sarahf: Fair. OK, you’re up, Perry.

TWO PICKS

perry: So I have interpreted this as who is going to have a moment, not necessarily who is most likely to win.

So in that vein, I think Andrew Yang will have a moment in the debates and that will boost his profile.

Universal basic income is an issue that I think resonates with a lot of nerdy people worried about economic inequality and automation — and the debates could help him, because he is a non-politician who will come off as different from the rest of the field.

nrakich: Yeah, Yang checks a lot of boxes for the “moment” thing — low name recognition right now, but lots of room to grow. He has some passionate fans out there. He’s gotten over 100,000 donors, which is the fifth-most in the field, based on the data we have. And he’s been Googled just as much as Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris over the past 30 days.

natesilver: Also, if we’re talking about long-shot candidates, you’d rather have a candidate who’s really weird (I mean that in the nicest possible way) rather than one who’s boring.

Like, maybe nine times out of 10, Yang doesn’t make a dent at all, but that one time out of 10, he has an interesting ceiling.

perry: In this same vein of a moment, my next pick is Julián Castro.

He is charisma-challenged, but I think immigration will be a big issue in this primary and in the general because of President Trump, and Castro is talking about it more than most of the other candidates. And he is the only Latino candidate in the race so far. At some point, that combination could help him break through.

sarahf: Right, Democrats are going to need to start thinking through how they’d go about addressing immigration reform, and Castro is pretty much the only candidate out there with an extensive platform describing what he’d do.

OK … I’m back up. My next pick is the congressman from Ohio, Tim Ryan.

Part of my rationale is that by our count, he just qualified for the debate stage via the polls, and he’s been running for what, less than a month?

Granted, I realize Biden’s entry into the field casts a wide shadow over some of his electability argument.

perry: I almost picked him, so I think this is a good point. With Democrats so focused on electability, being a white man from Ohio fits well. And this is my bias because I know him a bit from covering Congress, but I think he has a charisma that will come through in interviews, debates, etc.

I tend to think that of the lower-tier candidates, Ryan, along with Booker, is the most likely to win the nomination.

natesilver: Biden overlaps an awful lot with him, though.

And if Biden fades, aren’t there other candidates who will get a second look before Ryan does? Like Klobuchar or Beto?

perry: Totally agree — Biden is a huge, huge problem for Ryan.

sarahf: But, like Klobuchar, I think Ryan has a lot to benefit from if Biden makes too many gaffes — I’m not convinced Klobuchar would necessarily benefit more.

Alright, Nate, you’re up!

natesilver: Oh god, this is hard.

perry: Yeah, it is.

sarahf: It’s three rounds, everybody. We can get through this!

perry: I mean, this is the fun part. Rep. Eric Swalwell of California or former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado? Author Marienne Williamson or Miramar, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam?

natesilver: I’m not allowed to pick people who aren’t officially running yet?

sarahf: Sure, why not. There are a few more people who might run. But within reason! The days of picking Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson are over.

natesilver: Oh, I can?!? Well, great, I take Stacey Abrams.

Maybe there’s only a 25 percent chance she runs, but I’d rather have like a 25 percent chance of Stacey Abrams than a 100 percent chance of Seth Moulton or something.

perry: Just curious, if Abrams were eligible from the start, wouldn’t everyone have picked her first?

nrakich: No, but I was going to pick her next. She just announced she isn’t running for Senate in 2020, which increases the odds she’ll run for president. But I don’t think she’s No. 1 pick material mainly because I think there’s a pretty low chance that she ultimately runs.

perry: But is she more likely to win than Booker or Klobuchar if she runs?

natesilver: Yeah, I think she’s pretty clearly the best of the rest, and in fact I’d put her third after Booker and Klobuchar.

Every now and then when she’s included in a poll, she tends to get in the mid-single digits, which isn’t bad considering she hasn’t really gotten much media attention.

Abrams probably also only runs if it looks like Booker (and/or Harris?) is struggling, but you can make a case that Booker (and Harris?) is struggling and there’s an opening for another black candidate.

sarahf: It’s just a question of whether she’ll actually run. OK, Nathaniel, you’re up!

nrakich: OK, for my second-round pick, I’m going with Kirsten Gillibrand.

I realize that her stock is pretty low right now, but I think she’s pretty good value at this point in the draft.

natesilver: We’ve reached the Gillibrandoza Line — i.e., if you’re polling below Gillibrand, something isn’t going well.

perry: I was thinking about her and how far she is below the other sitting senators in this draft.

nrakich: The big theory around her struggles is that Democratic donors are sour on her because she was the first Democratic senator to call for Al Franken’s resignation.

Which … maybe? But the reality is that she is doing fine in fundraising! In the first quarter of 2019, she had the fourth-highest fundraising haul among the 2020 candidates.

Not having small donors is a problem because it signals lack of grassroots support, but not having big donors is only a problem because it leads to cash flow problems. And I don’t think she has cash flow problems.

So I could see her pumping some of that money into ads at the right time and having a moment.

natesilver: I dunno, but I think gender has to be a factor there. She’s leaning in to her gender (pun somewhat intended). She has critiqued powerful men. She gets a lot of gendered critiques such as being too “ambitious.”

perry: I think the Franken thing didn’t help. But I also think three senators from blue states who are similar to her ideologically (Booker, Harris, Warren) are in the same lane as her, and I think they are more likely to get the party behind them.

nrakich: To be clear, she has a lot working against her. But at this point in the draft? When my alternatives are Swalwell and Hickenlooper? I’ll take the senator from New York with a $10 million war chest.

natesilver: All’s well that Swalwells.

sarahf: And speaking of your next pick …

nrakich: My third round pick is Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

I certainly don’t think she’ll win the nomination. But I could see her becoming the Dennis Kucinich of this primary — sticks around a long time, gets 5 percent to 10 percent in later primaries on the strength of the “peace voters” that Kucinich kinda made famous.

perry: Does having Democrats harshly criticize you after a debate count as a moment? You mean a positive moment, right?

Well, the peace argument is a good one actually.

nrakich: Haha, yes, I mean positive moment. Among a certain segment of the population!

She has also been Googled more often in the past 30 days than Klobuchar, Gillibrand and Castro. And she’s the only one of those four who didn’t have a CNN town hall during that time!

perry: Interesting. Didn’t know that.

nrakich: She is also one of only nine candidates who has hit the 65,000 individual donor threshold, according to a New York Times analysis. It seems that she has a passionate, if small, following. To me, that’s the makings of a #moment.

natesilver: I guess if you’re really bearish on Bernie, you can sort of make a case that some Bernie fans would migrate to Gabbard rather than Warren or someone else. Not the bulk of them but the hard-core Very Online anti-establishment ones.

But again, that gets her to 5 percent, or maybe she like randomly finishes second in the Hawaii caucuses.

sarahf: She certainly would represent some different ideas on the debate stage, but I doubt that the early debates will focus much on foreign policy … probably to her and Mike Gravel’s chagrin.

nrakich: Dollars to doughnuts she gets Gravel’s endorsement after he drops out after the debates this summer.

Not that that will carry any weight, but it would consolidate the Very Online folks around her even more.

sarahf: OK, Nate. You’re up!

natesilver: Well, shit. I don’t know who I want.

sarahf: Join the club.

natesilver: I guess the Coloradans are intriguing, and there are more of them to pick from than strains of sativa at a dispensary in Denver.

But I think I’ll go with John Hickenlooper over Michael Bennet-with-one-T

nrakich: As I wrote in my overview of his campaign, Hickenlooper is known for his creative TV ads. I could definitely see him making a fun video that goes viral.

sarahf: If Bennet runs, though, that’s a hell of a story — fighting cancer AND running for president.

natesilver: Well, you can pick him! Hickenlooper got off to a slightly earlier start, though, and there aren’t a lot of governors in the field.

So, sorta like for Gillibrand, there’s a pretty good résumé there.

nrakich: He’s also experienced at this, having fought and won three tough elections.

natesilver: I don’t personally see it happening. But he does take eccentric positions here and there that might appeal to a certain narrow cross section of voters:

Looks like @Hickenlooper is making a strong play for the Matt Stoller vote in the primary. He’s running on a straight up anti-monopoly platform. This piece is extremely well thought out. Wow. https://t.co/IKS3z0EHSw

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 27, 2019

But probably a very, very narrow cross section.

The problem is we’re trying to distinguish between people who have, I dunno, a 1.2 percent chance of winning the nomination versus a 0.9 percent chance or something. So every little cross section counts!

sarahf: Ugh, OK. I’m back up. And fine, I will piggyback off the Colorado pick with Bennet, and that’s because he already had a moment earlier this year over an impassioned speech he gave during the government shutdown.

He isn’t officially in the race yet, but if he were to get in, we already have a sense of his oratorical skills (viral potential). And he has been battling prostate cancer, which could be inspirational for some voters.

natesilver: Also, as I pointed out before, Bennet has only one T in his last name for some reason, and his name will frequently be misspelled. So I expect him to have a major constituency among copy editors.

To be fair, there’s a lot of competition for the copy-editor vote, though. Buttigieg is another leading candidate.

perry: So this is the final pick, right? My choices are former U.S. Rep. John Delaney of Maryland, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, Messam, Swalwell, Williamson and Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who is strongly considering a campaign but is not in the race yet. And I must ask, could even FiveThirtyEight readers tell the difference between Bullock, Delaney, Moulton and Swalwell (all white men) if they walked into a bar?

Anyway, I’m picking Bullock to run and to hit 3 percent at some point.

But he might not run — and he if does, he may never get beyond 0 percent. But he is a white guy whose electability case is pretty strong in that he actually won statewide in a red state — unlike Biden, Buttigieg, Delaney, Moulton, O’Rourke, Ryan, Sanders and Swalwell.

natesilver: Vermont used to be a red state!

sarahf: But, Nate, when was Vermont last a red state?

natesilver: On the presidential level, George H.W. Bush over Michael Dukakis in 1988.

nrakich: Vermont is kind of like the Democratic version of West Virginia, though. Still has some Yankee Republicanism in its DNA, even to this day.

natesilver: Al Gore won it by “only” 10 points in 2000, compared with a 26-point win by Hillary Clinton in 2016.

It’s actually shifted quite a bit, and in contrast to other rural states.

nrakich: Fun fact: A Democrat has never been elected to Sanders’s Senate seat.

natesilver: BeRnIe Is ThE mOsT eLeCtAbLe

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bountyofbeads · 5 years

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A 12-year-old black girl walking home from school. Gay pals leaving a bar.

A Trump family friend watching TV.

A Muslim veteran driving to work.

In 2018, they all became victims of a record-setting year of hatred in D.C.

By Michael E. Miller | Published August 21, 2019 | Washington Post | Posted August 21, 2019 1:58 PM ET |

The girl had tutoring after class that day, so she was alone as she left Alice Deal Middle School and began walking the mile to her apartment.

“Mommy,” the 12-year-old said on her cellphone. “I’m on my way home.”

But as the black seventh-grader turned down a quiet street in Northwest Washington, she said, she noticed a white man watching her. When he began walking her way, the girl crossed to the other side of the road. She had just ducked under the low bough of a magnolia tree when she heard something behind her.

As she turned, the man lunged at her, she recalled.

The girl fell on her back in a stranger’s front yard, screaming as the man pinned her down.

“Shut the f--- up, n-----,” he said, according to a police report.

The girl said she was able to hit him in the face and kick him in the groin. As he rolled off her, she sprinted home, sobbing.

“I thought I wasn’t going to see my mom ever again,” said the girl, whom The Washington Post agreed not to name because she is a child and a crime victim.

The Nov. 28 incident was one of a record 204 suspected hate crimes in the capital last year. The true number is probably higher because, experts say, many hate crimes are not reported to police. Even so, the District has the highest rate per capita of any major city in the United States, according to Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino.

As reports of hate crimes have surged across the country, much of the attention has been focused onwhite-supremacy-inspired mass shootings in Pittsburgh and El Paso and an attack by an avowed neo-Nazi in Charlottesville.

In Washington, the arrest of a self-professed white nationalist allegedly plotting with his brother to spark a race war made national headlines. Meanwhile, the reported attack on the seventh-grader — just two weeks later and a few miles away — received no media coverage. That was true of the vast majority of suspected hate crimes in the District in 2018.

The Washington Post examined all 204 incidents investigated by police as hate crimes, interviewing two dozen victims and several suspects. What emerged was a portrait of pervasive bigotry and violence: gay men and women assaulted on the street, transgender people threatened by strangers, African Americans taunted with slurs, Muslims harassed for wearing headscarves, synagogues subjected to anti-Semitic calls.

Roughly half were violent crimes ranging from robbery to sexual abuse to assault, which was the most common offense.

Yet most suspected hate crimes go unpunished in the District. Despite a strong push by police to identify and investigate bias-motivated incidents, there were no arrests in roughly two-thirds of the cases, The Post found. Of the adult suspects identified, just 55 faced charges of any kind. None has been convicted of a hate crime.

D.C. police say the seemingly random nature of some hate crimes can make arrests difficult, and racist or anti-Semitic graffiti can be tough to trace to a culprit. “We have a robust and comprehensive process,” said Lt. Brett Parson, commander of the Special Liaison Branch, which investigates suspected hate crimes.

Jessie K. Liu, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, said in a statement Tuesday that her office takes hate crimes “very seriously” and recently added a second coordinator to prosecute them. “We continue to work closely with the Metropolitan Police Department to investigate these cases, and with victims to pursue justice in them,” she said.

The city’s year of hatred began in January with a ride-share that descended into racist violence. It ended 12 months later in an alley, where a bisexual man was assaulted with a frying pan. In between, simmering biases boiled over on a near-daily basis. Road rage accelerated into racism. Roommates threatened to kill one another over politics. An elevator ride ended with one neighbor’s hands around another’s neck.

“It’s always the same with you Spanish, Latin American people,” one female Lyft passenger allegedly told another on Jan. 17, 2018, before punching her in the face. “You come to this country and steal from us.”

Nearly half of the victims belonged to the District’s large LGBTQ community. There was also a surge of partisan hatred in the most political of cities as supporters of President Trump were attacked and his critics received death threats.

Many people who track hate crimes see a connection between Trump’s ugly political rhetoric aimed at immigrants and people of color and what has been unleashed in communities across the country.

“Look at the environment that our nation’s leaders have created,” said Bobbi Strang, president of the District’s Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance. “Everywhere people are feeling empowered to say and act according to their worst impulses.”

Or as Levin put it: “We are seeing a democratization of hate.”

Michael Creason and Zach Link were drinking at the Dirty Goose — a gay bar on U Street just two miles from the White House — when Link decided it was time to order his friend a ride home.

It was about 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 15, 2018. As the two walked hand-in-hand on the busy sidewalk toward an Uber, a group of men bumped into Creason. When Link followed them and demanded to know why they had jostled his friend, the group attacked.

“You f------ fags,” one of the men said, before punching Link in the face.

As a bystander filmed on her cellphone, two men punched and kicked Link as he lay on the ground. When Creason tried to help him, a third man blindsided him with a blow to the back of the head.

“What’s going on?” said the woman filming, as Link spat out his teeth and Creason lay unconscious in the street.

The video of the attack went viral. For the LGBTQ community, it was a reminder that this city of 700,000 people, often viewed as one of America’s most gay-friendly, is also home to more reports of homophobic hate crimes than almost anywhere in the country.

The 61 anti-gay and 33 anti-transgender incidents investigated by D.C. police last year easily eclipse those in the 18 other big cities Levin has studied, including New York, with 8.5 million people, and Los Angeles, with 4 million.

How the targets of hatred vary from city to city

The victims of suspected hate crimes often reflect the makeup of their city, as D.C., with a large LGBT community, and New York, with a large Jewish population, demonstrate.

Washington D.C.

Sexual orientation 61

Race 39

Ethnicity 36

Gender identity 33

Religion 25

New York

Jewish 189

Black 45

Sexual orientation 45

Muslim 18

White 17

San Francisco

Race or ethnicity 38

Sexual orientation 16

Religion 9

Gender nonconformity 2

Multiple bias motivations 1

Seattle

Gay or lesbian 34

Black 24

White 12

Jewish 6

Asian 6

Note: Hate crimes based on each city’s classification. The Post categorized some incidents differently than D.C. Police.

Source: Washington figures based on a Post analysis of D.C. police data. Other cities based on data from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism; California State University, San Bernardino

One reason may be the sheer size of the District’s LGBTQ community — about 10 percent of the city’s residents. Police also attribute the record number of attacks to better reporting and closer relations between law enforcement and gay and transgender residents.

Activists agree but also say the climate is worse now than it was a few years ago.

“We see the evidence in hate-crime statistics,” said Strang, the gay and lesbian alliance president, “and we see the evidence in viral YouTube videos.”

In 2018, a gay man was threatened in the locker room of his gym. A woman came home to find her gay pride flag smeared with feces. A lesbian was called a “dyke” and body slammed by her own brother who said “if she wanted to act like a man, he would treat her like a man,” according to a police report.

Rudolph Williams was dancing at a nightclub on Feb. 3, 2018, when another clubgoer asked him to move. Williams, who is openly gay, responded that he was “just listening to the music.”

Suddenly, he said, he was struck in the head with a champagne bottle.

“I felt the warmth of the blood run down my face,” he recalled, and the man who wanted him to move laughed. “He said, ‘You faggy motherf-----.’ That’s when I knew it was deliberate,” Williams said.

Transgender men and women also were frequent targets of abuse, especially those who were homeless.

In September, Kristen Laird was settling in for another night near Dupont Circle when she was approached by a man who asked whether she was a man or a woman. When Laird said she was transsexual, Mickey Crawford — who was also homeless and has a long criminal record, including a sexual assault conviction — demanded sex. When she refused, Crawford said he would come back later and rape her.

“I get harassed on a fairly consistent basis,” Laird told The Post. “But this last one scared me.”

A week earlier, she and her partner had been hit by a teenager wielding a bicycle helmet. Neither incident was prosecuted as a hate crime. Crawford, who pleaded guilty and said he had a drinking problem, was sentenced to 180 days’ time served.

Another transgender woman at a homeless shelter downtown found a piece of paper in her locker that read: “BITCH THIS WOMEN’S SHELTER LEAVE BEFORE WE KILL YOU, FAGGOT.”

Transgender people were pistol-whipped and spit upon, attacked while taking out the trash and visiting the library. In December, the National Center for Transgender Equality received three threats in less than 24 hours, including one promising to “rid the earth of scum and garbage like you.”

Each incident reverberated through a tightknit community still reeling from the death of Deeniquia “Dee Dee” Dodds, a transgender woman who was killed during a 2016 armed robbery.

After the attack on U Street, Creason woke up in a hospital bed with no memory of the incident. Then someone sent him the video.

“It’s not a fun experience to see yourself dropped like a rag doll in the middle of the street,” Creason told The Post. He sent the video to the police, who released images of the suspects, along with a plea for relevant information.

None came. The attack is one of 128 suspected hate crimes that remain unsolved.

On a Saturday evening in October, a man with an assault rifle walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue and opened fire, shouting "All Jews must die." By the time he was arrested, 11 people were dead.

Two days later, before the victims of America’s deadliest anti-Semitic attack had been buried, the phone rang at the Washington Hebrew Congregation.

“I’m so glad that 11 people died at the other temple,” the caller told a receptionist. “I wanted you to know.”

Anti-Semitic hate crimes are on the rise across the country. In Washington, the call on Oct. 29, 2018, was one of 17 suspected anti-Semitic hate crimes last year, according to The Post’s analysis of police reports.

Most of those involved swastikas scrawled in visible locations: a store window in Georgetown, a mailbox downtown, the girls’ bathroom at an elite private high school. One man walked out of his house on a wintry morning in Chevy Chase to find the Nazi symbol freshly drawn in the frost.

Police also investigated reports of seven anti-Muslim incidents — up from two in 2017 — and one anti-Hindu incident, The Post found.

In October, a man came to the headquarters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and started yelling, “I hate Muslims,” according to a police report. When asked to leave, he made a throat-cutting gesture at a receptionist.

A deaf student at Gallaudet University reported being stalked for months online by a man who mocked her for being Muslim and told her “Trump is going to kill you.”

“I blocked him again and again, but he kept coming back every time, making new Instagram accounts,” the student told The Post via a sign-language interpreter. “He was constantly messaging me, every day, 10 to 15 times.”

The Post generally does not identify the victims of crimes without their permission. The student, who did not want to be named, said she had grown up in New York City, where she had been threatened with a gun after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But nothing had shaken her like her Instagram stalker.

“Anytime I go outside, I feel like I’m constantly looking behind my back,” she said. “Being Muslim and deaf, I feel like I can’t trust anyone.”

Sarah Amer, a Palestinian American, was driving to work in downtown Washington in June 2018 when she spotted a woman panhandling on the side of road. As Amer rolled down her window to give her money, the woman noticed Amer’s hijab.

“You f------ terrorist,” the woman screamed, according to Amer. “Go back to your country.”

Then the woman began hitting Amer’s car with a shoe.

Amer drove away and reported what happened to the police. But that incident and others she has endured cut deep for the Air Force and Peace Corps veteran. She recently stopped wearing her hijab, a decision that led some family members and friends to question her faith.

“After years of abuse — mental, emotional and physical — now I’m in the clear,” she said. “If this brings judgment, it’s between me and God.”

There was no such option for the synagogues that started receiving threats in March 2018. The first target was Tifereth Israel Congregation . Then a male caller threatened to sexually assault a female employee at the National Synagogue across the street.

In October, after the deadly attack on the synagogue in Pittsburgh, the Washington Hebrew Congregation received a flurry of voice mails that said: “Go [to] hell Jew,” “Hitler’s trash” and “F--- your Torah,” according to court records.

The calls finally stopped in November with the arrest of a mentally troubled man named Yohanes Lemma.

Lemma is no white supremacist. This spring, the Ethiopian immigrant welcomed a reporter into his small apartment in Takoma Park, Md., full of plastic flowers and photos of his wife. As his 4-year-old son watched videos on a cellphone and ate ice cream, Lemma described moving to the United States in 2006 after winning the green-card lottery.

A devout Christian and now a U.S. citizen, Lemma said he never had a problem with Jews in Ethiopia. But a few years ago, he said, he began to feel a strange sensation in the back of his head.

“I feel the Jewish people attack me and my son,” he said.

Lemma admitted to leaving the threatening messages, including the call he made two days after the Pittsburgh massacre.

“I made a mistake,” he said. “I didn’t know this was a crime because I am a foreigner.”

A few weeks after speaking to The Post, Lemma pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor stalking — not a hate crime — and on May 3 received a suspended sentence of 365 days and five years’ probation, which includes mental health screening.

But Lemma also told The Post that he still thought his family was somehow under attack from Jews, adding that next time, instead of threatening synagogues, “maybe I will go to the police station.”

The man was watching his friend Tucker Carlson on TV, texting the conservative talk show host during commercial breaks, when he heard a bang.

As Carlson railed against a migrant caravan, the man walked to the front of his townhouse, where he could hear someone shouting. When he looked outside, he said, he saw about half a dozen people pelting his home with rocks.

As he dialed 911, the glass door suddenly shattered.

The rock had “F--- TRUMP” written on it.

“This has been nonstop,” said the man, a GOP donor and Trump family friend who The Post agreed not to name because he was the victim of a crime.

“I am probably going to have to move out of D.C.,” he said. “I’m not safe.”

The incident in mid-November was one of 10 politically fueled hate-crime reports last year, according to D.C. police. Washington is one of the few cities in the country that counts political affiliation as a basis for hate crimes.

Victims include the famous and the ordinary, conservatives and liberals.

In March 2018, a preschool teacher was waiting in line at a taco restaurant near Dupont Circle when she interrupted two women as they criticized the president.

“I support Donald Trump,” said the teacher, who said she still fears for her safety and asked not to be named. As an argument erupted, the teacher began filming on her phone. Seconds later, the two women attacked her, breaking her finger and bursting a blood vessel in her eye, she said. Her video of the assault went viral as conservative websites cited it as an example of liberal intolerance.

A year later, the teacher told The Post she is still paying off her hospital bills and seeing a therapist.

A Latina, she said she voted for Barack Obama and then Hillary Clinton in 2016, before taking a shine to Trump after the election. But she said the attack — committed by two black women who were not apprehended — had left her wary of African Americans.

“I’m dealing with a lot of trauma and anger,” she said. “If I see a group of people who are black, it’s like I can’t say anything anymore because it’s like they are going to attack me.”

“I don’t want to think that way,” she said.

Most of the reported incidents came within a month or so of the midterm election. Only one has led to an arrest, police records show.

On Oct. 26, a letter arrived at the D.C. office of Gara LaMarche, president of the progressive Democracy Alliance.

“I know who you are, what you look like, where you work, where you live, and what you drive,” the letter said, according to a police report. “I’m an ex-Army Ranger who has access to classified information about everyone in this country. . . . So, I think I’ll pay you a visit soon. What do you think will happen then? Trust me — it will be the worst day in your life!”

“This was the same week pipe bombs were being sent to people” around the country, LaMarche told The Post. “The atmosphere was kind of unnerving.”

Tucker Carlson himself was the target of another politically motivated incident, police said.

Protesters calling themselves “Smash Racism D.C.” gathered outside his house the night after the midterm election to denounce his harsh anti-immigration rhetoric. Carlson wasn’t home, but his wife was. As she locked herself in the pantry and called 911, a protester with a bullhorn blasted him for “promoting hate.”

“We want you to know, we know where you sleep at night,” the person said.

Carlson’s friend, the GOP donor, said police didn’t take it seriously when his back door was smashed a week later. They ignored surveillance footage and dismissed the idea of dusting the rock for fingerprints, he said. After he offered to turn the rock over to federal law enforcement agents, the police changed their minds, he said. Police later told him the rock was too porous to test.

D.C. police said they investigated the case thoroughly, including the rock and surveillance video, but could not identify the culprits.

After the incident, the donor said, more glass was broken, patio furniture was tipped over, sandwiches were thrown at his windows, and sushi was left to rot on his grill. He didn’t call police again.

“It’s not like they said, ‘Stop bothering us,’ ” he said. “But I got the sense that they thought they had bigger things to deal with.”

Not long ago, he moved.

It wasn't until later after the police interviews — that the black middle-schooler had time to think about the slur she said her white attacker had shouted as he pinned her to the ground. She had heard the word before growing up in the District. But never like that, she said, never so full of hate and menace.

At least a dozen times last year, African Americans were called the n-word during suspected hate crimes in the District.

One man heard it as he was spit upon; another as he was attacked with a bicycle lock; a third as he was driving, when a man in a pickup truck next to him shouted it while brandishing a handgun, according to police reports.

In April 2018, a woman visiting the once-segregated Banneker swimming pool — built for blacks in 1934 — returned to her car to find her tires and seats slashed and “N-----” scrawled on the hood.

There were 75 suspected hate crimes in 2018 motivated by race or ethnicity, up from 65 in 2017, The Post found: 26 against African Americans, 24 against Hispanics, 15 against whites, six against Asians, three against people perceived to be of Arab descent and one against all nonwhites. (The Post sometimes classified the type of suspected hate crime differently than D.C. police, and counted the incidents by the year in which they occurred.)

The reports reflected an increasingly diverse city where many neighborhoods are changing, but where many prejudices persist.

An Indian woman was spat upon in a Chinese restaurant in Adams Morgan by the director of a Polish American cultural organization, according to one police report. Two Asian women were allegedly attacked on separate occasions while shopping. A woman became angry at employees at a Popeyes chicken restaurant for speaking Spanish and began throwing things at them.

Occasionally, the suspects’ language echoed that of President Trump.

A Latina told police that a stranger grabbed her buttocks near the Mall, then told her to “get out of the U.S.” and “go back to her country.” Two Hispanic men were approached on U Street late one night by two strangers who called them “MS-13,” a reference to the gang, before punching and kicking them, according to a police report.

The day after the midterm election, a Hispanic woman was crossing the street when the driver of a car told her to “Go back to Mexico,” according to another report. The woman then told the motorist, who was black, to “Go back to Africa,” prompting him to get out of his car and punch her in the mouth.

For the seventh-grader, the racist attack during her walk home from school in November deeply shook the girl , who had only recently moved to the neighborhood.

“The first three nights, she woke me up, screaming,” her mother said. “She dreamed that the man was following her again, or that he was in our house.”

The girl said she initially distanced herself from white friends. She told only one classmate about the incident.

“I don’t want people to think I’m looking for attention,” she said.

A week after she and her mother reported the attack, police suspended their investigation.

“There was no video recovered that would have assisted this case,” police said in a statement. “Cases are suspended when the detective [has] exhausted all leads.”

The girl, now 13, said what happened has shaken her faith in adults, white people and the police.

“I feel like the detective thought I was lying,” she said. “I’m not going to lie about something that traumatic.”

Peter Hermann and Julie Tate contributed to this report.

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The definition of “democracy” following the fall of the Soviet Union has grown and evolved within the United States and abroad. This is especially true as much of the world would be categorized as a form of Republic like the United States, so simply applying the popular term “democracy" and assuming the same ideals and practices upheld in “democratic regimes.". The use of indexes such as the Democracy Index which is compiled by the U.K. firm, the Economist can provide an understanding in the variation between these governments. As with all indexes they are not necessarily a perfect reading of every governmental system, but they provide a general reading of the trends within each nation. Countries like the United States (2010 - 8.18, 2018 - 7.96) that were down graded from full democracies (countries with a rating of 8.1 and above) are becoming more common. In the 2010 report, the researchers saw that, "there has been a decline in democracy across the world since 2008. The decades-long global trend in democratisation had previously come to a halt in what Larry Diamond (2008) called a “democratic recession”. Now democracy is in retreat. The dominant pattern in all regions over the past two years has been backsliding on previously attained progress in democratisation.” (EIU 2010). The affects of this period can be scene as compared to 2010 where there were, "26 full democracies, 53 flawed democracies, 33 hybrid regimes, and 55 authoritarian regimes [total 167 governments],” (EIU 2010) in 2018 There were, “20 full democracies, 55 flawed democracies, 39 hybrid regimes, and 53 authoritarian regimes [total 167 governments]” (EIU 2018). With this data it is possible to see that there as a difference of -6 states for full democracies, +2 states for flawed democracies, +6 states for hybrid regimes, and -2 states for authoritarian regimes. This provides a general reading of a larger proportional decline in full democracies, a slight decline in authoritarian regimes, with the real growth has been seen in the "hybrid regime category.” I hope that this information can help bring a more contemporary view of democracy from after the Cold War where the world isn’t divided between a sea of Red and Blue and a grey area of non participants, but by one giant Ocean of grey.

After the decline of People’s liberation movements in the 1980s and 1990s, the world for better or for worst became capitalist. This shift is especially evident with structural adjustment which was largely orchestrated by the Neoliberal regimes in the Global North. This change no longer allowed us the view the world in the same way. Ruling classes emerged and their leaders now had similar roles, and systems to those nations that has originally aligned with the capitalist hegemon(-y/-ies) following the second world war. Although these programs had unfortunate consequences, such as the evaporation of wealth, instability, and hunger in many countries like Zambia (Makan 81), or total economic collapse as with the case of Mexico (Heredia), the represented a new dawn of government in the 21st century. It is the consequences of the Reagan and Thatcher regimes that were experienced 1990s and today and are now on a large scale in the Global North re-examining today in our new digital age.

Please keep this information in mind when viewing the video that I am sharing today

This video has been published by Al jazeera and speaks to the manner in which radical heads of state, like President Rodrigo Duterte behave on online spaces. The rise of populist right-wing leaders across the globe like Durante, Bolsonaro, Janos and organizations like the FPO in Austria have been a phenomena of the 21st century and is a reality that has not been seen on this scale since the 1930s. Below is a transliteration and of course please feel free to watch the video I’ve linked with this post, it was broadcast live on the 17th of February 2019 at around 11:00.

6:30 :

Peter Palmerantsev: Social media has fueled a new term of what I might call pop-up popularism, it’s much more emotional and with an enemy, very abstract one who is blocking your very private grievances, the establishment, the elite, foreigners it doesn’t matter

Maria Ressa: You actually wrote a lot about Russian disinformation, how would you define that?

Peter Palmerantsev: Think about it in the point of view of a leader with totalitarian tendencies, back in the 20th century you could shut off your population with censorship. You could just block off TV channels, you cannot do that anymore. So instead of shutting off things you spread as much cynicism as possible, you undermine the idea of trust as much as possible. You say yeah…maybe our media isn’t perfect, but the BBC, CNN, Rappler they are all bought. Once you undermine the idea that there is any truth out there, then all that is left is emotion, and only the most emotional and viscerally emotional leader wins.

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Maria Ressa: In 2016 the campaign machine of President Rodrigo Duterte used Facebook and social media to win an election, but they didn’t stop there. We began to see vicious attacks on Facebook by anyone who questioned the killings in the drug war As we move into the election season I am excited and horrified to see if Palmerantsev’s conclusions hold value. It will be interesting to see how the American electorate’s relationship with fact and if we’ve been washed of the comfort of truth. If so then it will be interesting to see the consequences of “False News” as we move in the 2020s.

In putting together this post I also wanted to thank Al Jazeera for inspiring this and hopefully other people like around the globe, as well as touch upon an article and a book I came across. One article I’ve linked below by the BBC entitled, "Fascism, the 1930 and the 21st Century” by Mardell attempts to analyze rhetoric from these leaders in 2016 after European and American elections that year. Also If you are interested in reading a Novel some say foresaw this period, El País, which is a Spanish Paper, "Eso No Puede Pasar Aquí” originally published in English in the 1930s as “It Can't Happen Here,” it could act as a nice way to reflect on this phenomena (El País).

Conclusion//Rationale:

I have created this short essay like any short essay to help demonstrate my perspective to you my reader. I wrote this a few weeks prior to address the conservatives in my life, and to have this act as a call to arms of sort. I would like to extend the same goal that I created in my original post to my readers on tumblr:

The one one thing I hope from this is that a dialogue might be created, so if there is engagement, I want it to be unveiled. In doing so other’s can understand my own rationale, and the rationale of those in the American-Centrist, Liberal, Progressive, Socialist, or Communist end of the spectrum that also feel free to comment. Through the participation of those that are part of the American Center-Right to Right, Far-Right, Libertarian, and Fascist side of our political spectrum we one the left can understand the conservative rational that in my own mind feels more and more abstract each day.

Citations:

EIU. "Democracy Index 2010: Democracy in Retreat: A Report From the Economist Intelligence Unit.” Economist Intelligence Unit. 2010. https://graphics.eiu.com/PDF/Democracy_Index_2010_web.pdf

EIU. "Democracy Index 2018.” Wikipedia. Retrieved 13 Jan 2019 from original source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#Democracy_Index_by_country_2018

Mardell, Mark. "Fascism, the 1930s and the 21st century” The BBC. 20 Dec 2016. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-38317787

Heredia, Carlos. "Structural Adjustment in Mexico: The Root of Crisis.” University of Waterloo. Oct 1995. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/politics/structural.html

Makan, Anita. "The Impact of Structural Adjustment Programs Upon the Political Economy of Zambia: A critical Analysis.” April 1993. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11985187.pdf

Melhem, Yaara. “Maria Ressa: War on Truth | Testimony.” Al Jazeera English. 18 Feb 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOkIFSdX7og Pron, Patricio. "El Libro que ‘decribió’ a Trup en 1935." El País. 20 Mar 2017. https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/03/18/actualidad/1489841065_936941.html

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December 28, 2018

News and Links

Layer 1

[eth2] Latest what’s new in Eth2

[eth1&2] Nimbus dev update

CBC Casper proofs of properties in Isabelle

Confidential Transactions with Reusable Commitments on Ethereum

Layer 2

OMG’s update on Plasma Prime implementation

Stuff for developers

learning SNARKs from scratch with a board game

OpenZeppelin 2.1 RC 2 and Manuel Araoz’s Zeppelin motivations and plans

Etherlime update - solc v0.5.x, 95% coverage, and what’s coming in 2019

Tool to refactor your solidity v0.4.x code to v0.5.x

JIT for Truebit

debugging working group with data representation paper

3box.js v1.1 with local and network caching and a GraphQL endpoint

Auditing Solidity with Trail of Bits’ Slither

Tutorial to bridge PoA sidechain assets to Ethereum. Maker, Giveth, Protofire and POANet run xDai

LiveOverflow’s Capture the Flag with video explanations

Ecosystem

MyCrypto 1.5 is live with 0xInstant available

EnjinX: Eth block explorer. NFT and memecoin support coming in 2019

Threshold ECDSA sigs from Keep.

Basic concepts to understand to control your private keys

Ethereum Explained from PegaSys: Merkle Trees, World State, Transactions, and more

Governance and Standards

ERC1671: bonded fungible tokens

Application layer

Gitcoin in 2019

Eth gaming pioneer Etherplay is exploring “blockchain game economies minted by central servers”

Cryptowars (running on Loom) has a tournament going live this week

Loopring v2 is live.

Brave does a hotfix around clearly showing who is a verified publisher. Whiners kept whining in possibly the dumbest complaint ever - they’re upset that BAT can accumulate for a publisher who hasn’t yet verified.

Lympo and the Dallas Mavs have a fitness incentive program using a token on Ethereum and lets you buy Mavs merchandise with it.

Unikrn launches esports betting platform

In response to lawsuit threats from BNY Mellon, Melonport is now waterMelonport. The water may be silent.

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Maker’s Andy Milenius on a16z podcast

Nadav Hollander on Epicenter

Q&A with Buterin Fellowship receipient Mikerah Quintyne-Collins

Georgios Konstantopoulos on Into the Ether

Maurice Herlihy talk on atomic cross chain swaps

A Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon and Sonal Chokshi conversation from November and a different conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon from September.

General

Ledger responds to the hardware wallet attack talk at 35c3. They’re underwhelmed.

Facebook’s centralized decisionmaking about what people are allowed to say around the world. Yuck.

An intro to the Radical Markets ideas

No surprise that in crypto winter Wall Street’s crypto projects are on hold. Which is great, because then the true believers are better positioned in future competition

Somehow I’d missed the return of Merry Merkle doing renovation work in a South African high school. Also, Unicef France now accepts Dai

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

Jan 10 - Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends

Jan 10-Feb7 - 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon

Jan ~15 - Constantinople hard fork at block 7080000

Jan 17 - Aragon vote on funding original AragonOne team

Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)

Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Feb 23-25 - EthAustin (EthUniversal)

Mar 4 - Ethereum Magicians (Paris)

Mar 5-7 - EthCC (Paris)

Mar 8-10 - ETHParis (ETHGlobal)

Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support (Jan 23 begins Project ID prioritization)

April 8-14 - Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)

Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown (ETHGlobal)

May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)

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