Victoria Antoinette

People don’t upvote. You’re more likely to be criticized for a position than engaged with. Opinions that disagree with the hive mind are often quickly downvoted regardless of whether or not the position has validity.

i experience this constantly on lemmy.

org mode

renters bring risks. if the home is on the market, they also make it a half to sell

thank you. this has been a problem since at least November.

I expect to have more options on my ballot than that

!modabuse

Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.

the analysis shows perot damaged Clinton’s margin of victory.

you can vote based on policies. the real takeaway from that video should be that strategic voting consolidates parties while values voting gives you a chance for your values to be reflected in the politicians you vote for.

I didn’t say he’s off base. I said it’s useless. he’s not actually making a claim that I can use to predict anything.

what is the rate at which consolidation if parties occurs? if a fptp system exists with more than two parties, what reason do we have to believe it will consolidate, and when?

it’s a critical rationalist examination that would label it tautological: it’s true and it’s always true because of how weasley the wording is. “people tend to do the right thing” is a tautological claim because every example of people not doing the right thing is already covered in theassive loophole opened with the term “tend”. there is no way to set up a test to disprove it.

duverger’s law is not actually a law at all, but a tautology. it has no actual predictive power, and hand-waves away evidence of instances where it has not turned out to be true.

His video on First Past the Post voting should be mandatory to watch.

he doesn’t actually state in that video what should be the biggest takeaway: strategic voting is what leads to consolidation of parties, so your best interest longterm is to vote your values, even if doing so has a likelihood of losing short term.

al gore won that election, but votes didn’t decide the winner. don’t blame greens, blame the people who have had power for 100 years and shepherded us into this situation.

i have a reel mower. until i can completely subvert my lawn, i don’t need to tolerate the smoke and noise, at least.

snapdrop

it’s not punishment. we aren’t assigning moral agency.

it’s a thought terminating cliche

wrong. I don’t lose my freedoms due to a false dichotomy