brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That would be foolish, as I've never bet wrong.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's a good site to collect the money of delusional right-wing crazies. I collected $500 in 2020.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

No, I'm sorry, that's dangerously naïve, and a self-serving, solipsistic moral panic. How old are you?

If we used RCV or anything better that winner-take-all, that would be different, or if we had a parliamentary system. But we don't.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Explain and distinguish both, then. I genuinely don't see it.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

I'm putting your own words in your mouth. I'm sorry you refuse to accept that splitting opponents votes works. Good luck.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago

Zero is freezing

10 is not

20 is pleasing

30 is hot

40 frying

50 dying

[–] brianary@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (18 children)

That's not what you said. Your original "only" indicates that you think that votes + splitting your opponents votes isn't a strategy.

If splitting votes didn't matter, there wouldn't be so much effort put into gerrymandering. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP

Voting is a practical, strategic act, not an ideological one.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] brianary@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (20 children)
[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

It's true, but Idaho, especially the northern Idaho panhandle, is particularly bad. There's a history of white supremacy, with the Aryan Nations compound that was located there, apparently funded in part by Sea Monkeys. Allie Brosh mentions living near them in one of her books.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-01-tm-29473-story.html

[–] brianary@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but two copies is one, and one is none. Multiple backups are critical, especially as archive.org has been targeted by the last few book publishers, who want it gone. As politicians and news sites quietly modify their content and hope nobody notices, this should really be a service of the Library of Congress, too.

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