brianary

joined 1 year ago
[–] brianary@startrek.website 9 points 9 months 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 9 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 9 months 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 14 points 9 months ago

Zero is freezing

10 is not

20 is pleasing

30 is hot

40 frying

50 dying

[–] brianary@startrek.website 8 points 9 months 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 9 months ago (6 children)
[–] brianary@startrek.website 10 points 9 months ago (20 children)
[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 9 months 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 9 months 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.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 6 points 9 months ago

Weird that we're still doing "heiress", after abandoning "aviatrix", "actress", &c.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 14 points 10 months ago

I did not attend the funeral, but I approved of it.

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