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  • Punish the Democrats, she says

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  • Don't most people do that? I'd say any mainstream attempt to turn the upvote-downvote system into anything other than like-dislike is doomed to fail. We need a second pair of arrows for "worth reading" vs "don't bother"

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  • Okay, but how are you going to coordinate 100+ million voters to vote for the same candidate so they actually win?

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  • Saying that people are valuing their own or their loved ones' "comfort and privilege" (which sounds like they value having brunch or something) rather than - in a lot of cases - personal safety, and that they hold white supremacist values, is going to come off as an insult no matter what.

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  • Quick question. Are all American elections first-past-the-post or are there some elections where one could vote for a third party without risking a vote split or something?

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  • I guess America is cooked, then - because you have what, 10, maybe 15 percent leftists (if I'm being really generous)?

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  • How many Democrat voters do you know?

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  • I think most Democrat voters don't explicitly support genocide. (And no, voting for the "lesser evil" doesn't count.)

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  • The party leadership? I don't. The voter base, though...

  • If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems

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  • That's part why I don't use VIM for software development, even though I love the motions.

    It's a perfect solution... for the wrong problem.

    (Other reasons are:

    • I like the features that help me handle the code and catch mistakes before running it

    -I paid for the entire RAM and I'm going to use the entire RAM )

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  • That's a big assumption to be made about me, especially when I said

    Voting Democrat in the general election is the choice with (edited in: the) least horrible consequences

    (that is, one should vote for Democrats).

    I believe voting is the bare minimum of political effort that should be expected of every citizen of an electoral country, and that tactical voting is sometimes necessary.

    And I understand your disappointment with the American left. My comment is addressed to them as much as it is to you.

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  • I had something more like "try to approach liberals with kindness and understanding" in mind.

    Because the current approach doesn't seem to be working.

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  • I agree - voting Democrat in the general election is the choice with the least horrible consequences. But it's not enough.

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  • Edited for clarity, I was supposed to say "liberals". Thanks for helping me realise that!

    You're right about the party leadership, too.

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  • Okay, so:

    • Voting Democrat in the general election is the choice with (edited in: the) least horrible consequences and
    • Voting Democrat in the general election isn't nearly enough to stop the ratchet-effecting into fascism, and a stand-for-nothing placeholder centrist Democrat president in 2028 will probably just lead to Trump-3/Vance/someone similarly horrible in 2032

    are unfortunately both true.

    Also, non-MAGA Americans - (EDIT: liberals, not the party leaders) and leftists alike - need better people skills. With infighting like this, Republicans hardly even need to lift a finger.

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  • And when we're assuming, we are making an ASS out of U and MING.

    Someone needs to go apologise to Ming.

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    has an objection

    username checks out :D

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  • I can see how people might see voting 3rd party as functionally equivalent to not voting when it comes to one-round FPTP systems, though. It's better from a deontological standpoint, yes. But consequence-wise it's more/less the same result as not voting, if I understood it correctly.

  • ‘Vile, Horrifying, Evil’: Trump Threatens to Bomb Nation of 90 Million People ‘Back to the Stone Ages’

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  • That's fair enough, then. I may not share your opinion, but it seems reasonable enough and I respect it.

  • Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability.

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  • There are still decent pay-upfront mobile games. Unfortunately, they are drowned out by F2P slop with colossal marketing budgets.