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По итогам выборов, вся трамповата переходит из категории мудаков в категорию дураков, потому что (по определению) потенциального вреда от них стало пренебрежимо мало.*


fool (n): a harmlessly deranged person or one lacking in common powers of understanding.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fool


*update: при условии, что они будут носить маски и хорошо мыть руки.
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and formal prosecution of Pheidias was made in the assembly. Embezzlement, indeed, was not proven, for the gold of the statue, from the very start, had been so wrought upon and cast about it by Pheidias, at the wise suggestion of Pericles, that it could all be taken off and weighed, and this is what Pericles actually ordered the accusers of Pheidias to do at this time.

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pericles*.html


By contrast, mail-in vote counting laws adopted by Pensilvania and Georgia legislatures during this election cycle were prone to generate conspiracy theories in a close contest. Florida took care of the problem after the year 2000 recount controversy.

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