silence7

In a dictatorship, competence is a threat to the dictator

Some people really like it, but not that many. Per the article:

Dividing votes (40) by location (215) gives the Cheesecake Factory—the restaurant that received the most total votes—a bestness rate of 0.19, or the equivalent of 19 votes per 100 restaurants. Lambert’s Cafe earns a bestness rate of 2.66—the equivalent of 266 votes per 100 restaurants. While imperfect, this method at least does not penalize restaurants for failing to be national chains—though, for the purposes of the poll, I accept all nominations at face value.

The military has long had some of it at particular facilities — the Air Force academy is notorious. But it's long been illegal, and was quite rare outside the military.

The number of people willing to carry food and water across the desert for a couple days, to be arrested while looking for nonexistent extraterrestrials is small.

Lots of better things to get arrested for.

Area 51 is both:

• An actual military facility for testing experimental aircraft
• Quite remote desert

This means that actually getting into it means:

1. Being able to carry food and water long distances across inhospitable terrain
2. Going to jail when you're caught

I don't recommend it.

The point of the article is that the families of immigrants tend not to have that kind of money

I'll also note that past attacks on detention facilities have failed to free people.

It just takes getting them out of power. That's attainable

It doesn't have to be that way; we could have a world where people don't need to fight over energy resources because wind and sunshine are everywhere.

In a close election, tipping a few tens of thousands of votes in the right state could in fact alter the outcome. So they'd target the closest swing state, and pick precincts with large minority populations.

The problem is that just standing around is going to intimidate a bunch of US citizens who have dark skin

As far as anybody can tell, he made the whole thing up. The sharpies for signing are real, but likely are standard sharpies that somebody silk-screened a logo onto.

I'll gladly take a win even when their motives are not pure