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  • Ignoring the lack of evidence or argument presented here for that, I'd rather take a slowdown than Musk get a single new dollar.

  • Just hold it in

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  • It's effectively the same, but a slower more painful death.

  • Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates

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  • I'm not in the same boat, but I empathize. I want the fuck out. Best of luck, and I hope you're safe.

  • Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates

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  • Don't need to, Trump is actively stopping federal progress on climate change. Kamala having zero policy on it, doing literally nothing and maintaining the status quo is always better than accelerationism under Trump.

  • Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates

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  • I also mentioned immigrants, and etc. Etc because there are lots of other people being targeted that I don't have the energy to list.

  • Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates

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  • Trans people, immigrants, etc fearing for their lives, being kidnapped to a foreign death camp, and going full conservationist on climate change is a lot bigger of a difference than 1.3%.

  • Since we have a joke for a president I want to know, what cartoon character would you actually vote for to be President of the US?

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  • Idk I kinda like being able to take a shit without having to fill out a form every time.

  • life goals

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  • I just wanna make video games and eat carbs.

  • The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

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  • IDK LGTM

  • The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

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  • The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

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  • It's already got 4 PRs

    lol

  • UnitedHealthcare Is Struggling To Recover From Luigi Mangione

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  • Good

  • Swalwell on Biden age: ‘I’ll take the guy who’s 81 over the guy who has 91 felony counts’

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  • Simplicity tends to sell better than complexity, and RCV is the one that’s known of already.

    Agreed. And that's why I think approval is such a big improvement over ranked choice.

    "Tell us who you approve of, candidate with the most approval wins"

    Is a hell of a lot simpler than

    "Rank every candidate without ranking multiple as the same level, then we check if any candidate has a 50% majority, if not, the lowest candidate gets booted and the next wave of second choices comes in, repeat until there is 50% majority."

    And that's before the peripheral benefits.

    So far they’ve been more than happy to ignore everything except the status quo, unfortunately.

    Agreed. It's honestly sad.

    My city/state has been warming up to these kinds of talks and candidates at least, which gives me a glimmer of hope. But for now it is not enough.

  • Swalwell on Biden age: ‘I’ll take the guy who’s 81 over the guy who has 91 felony counts’

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  • Arguably, RCV is just as complicated as STAR, and approval is simpler than RCV. And part of the difficulty in the heavy lift to get RCV is that it has some pretty rough flaws, flaws that don't exist within the alternatives.

    And the political environment is easing up to the idea of moving towards better voting methods. I'm not saying we should let perfection be the enemy of progress. All I am saying is that if we are going to be making changes, we should at least attempt the better options.

  • Swalwell on Biden age: ‘I’ll take the guy who’s 81 over the guy who has 91 felony counts’

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  • I absolutely agree with pushing the issue at a local level, however we should probably be aiming for approval or STAR voting:

    https://dividedwefall.org/star-and-approval-voting/

    RCV is way better than our current system, but even RCV has flaws.

    We also need regulation requiring election reform within party primaries, because as of right now it is a clown show.

  • Why are they like this

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  • The republican/right wing party attempted to overthrow an election. And they are unabashed about that. And somehow they still have a 3rd of the country still supporting them.

    Is that not enough for us to qualify as having a real fascism problem?

  • You wouldn't download an entire media library

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  • They wouldn’t be able to finish stealing that car before a thousand hungry lawyers ate them alive. Why do we let media companies do that?

    They would probably actually have a decent shot at getting away with it, at least at first.

    And to answer your question, it's because the anger that companies generate by doing this shit ends up turning into piracy. Why would you try to punish a corp for doing this (likely wasting your time) when a cheap VPN and basic tech literacy gets you what you want?

    The effort ratios are way out of wack when it comes to digital products. It's easy to get around digital bullshitery, not so much in the real world where we are all car dependant.

  • The US economy is doing well. President Biden wants to know why so many Americans are still feeling bad

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  • Yeah, the NPVIC is… I mean, let’s be honest here. It’s not great. It’s better than our current system, absolutely.

    Agreed.

    But it’s far, far inferior than rank choice.

    I'd say it goes like

    Approval >>> Ranked >>>>>>>>>>>>> FPTP (popular vote) >>> FPTP (electoral college)

  • The US economy is doing well. President Biden wants to know why so many Americans are still feeling bad

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  • Agreed.

    We would need election reform for that to change, and while we are getting closer to that state by state, I don’t think we will ever get enough states to sign on for the laws to kick in.

    I assume you're talking about the NPVIC. But yeah, we are getting marginally closer to reform each year. And public sentiment towards FPTP voting is changing, which is good. The only downside is that it is slow, and people seem more keen on rank choice instead of approval (IMO the best).

    And these changes will never happen with our current system in place, so it’s a catch 22. Can’t change the system without reform, can’t reform with our current system.

    Honestly that's the case with most problems in the U.S., it's just a bunch of catch 22s the whole way down, and the whole way up.