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  • First-past-the-post voting systems inevitably trend to two-party systems over time. We see it play out in election models and we see it play out in real life.

    this claim is not falsifiable. it’s a tautology with no genuine predictive power. it’s not science, it is storytelling.

    everything you said after this was also wrong







  • Sybil@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlDo you use Discord or Matrix?
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    9 months ago

    whatever you say about discord, all i can hear is “you don’t own the data, you don’t control the servers, and the terms of service are subject to the whims of a for-profit corporation”

    no feature set, and no “community” built on such a platform can convince me it’s worth my time to use it for anything more than bare utility. for instance, sometimes my pokemon tournaments require i join a discord. i install the app for the course of the tournament.






  • Sybil@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlAnd I'll vote for him again
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    9 months ago

    Voting is not about putting your support behind a candidate

    this is the bit that i found most objectionable. almost all the rhetoric around an election talks about support: financial, popular, or political.

    voting is definitely supporting a candidate, pretty much any way you slice it.




  • Sybil@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlAnd I'll vote for him again
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    9 months ago

    hitler could never imagine having the power of the presidency under pax americana, but he would have loved to translate the “racial jungle” speech. the supreme irony of biden’s dog literally attacking federal law enforcement while people are in prison for the same thing is palpable. kids in cages, building a border wall, and supplying arms to the middle east to prop up an ethnostate. look… how much hitler are you willing to tolerate?