People didn’t go to Bluesky because of an informed choice based on features or security. People went to Bluesky because that’s where everyone they want to follow went.

Yes, I agree, any kind of ranked choice voting system would help to end the two-party duopoly. If you are lucky enough to have your state consider a ballot measure to introduce such a system, do everything in your power to help it pass.

Unfortunately, it will not be easy; for obvious reasons, there are many powerful political forces opposing such reform. Here is a page showing how well such measures have done in recent elections: https://ballotpedia.org/History_of_ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)_ballot_measures

By the way, if you liked the CGP Grey Animal Kingdom video, it continues as a short series: https://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/

You’re not arguing against Democrats, you are arguing against basic math. Here is a primer for why going third party is a complete non-starter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

The way forward is to transform the Democratic party from the inside out. It’s not impossible, Trump did it to the entire Republican party in the span of less than a decade. Vote in PRIMARY elections.

Trump. Who won specifically because of people who decided to ineffectively vote for letters other than D.

Primary Schumer, of course, but his term is up in 2028. AOC herself might be more focused on a separate race that particular year.

The framing isn’t false. A two-party duopoly is a simple, straightforward, and inevitable consequence of a first-past-the-post plurality voting system.

The other letters are not an option. Voting for any other letter just helps the party you hate the most to win. Yes, it fucking sucks.

https://lemmy.world/post/25476485

I’ll leak the email address of my YouTube user account for the bargain price of just $9,999

The “big issue” with this it that it is being done entirely to appease the vain whims of an egocentric wannabe dictator, and for no other reason.

As of five years ago, 70 petabytes: https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/12/01/donate-to-the-internet-archive-digital-library-of-free-borrowable-books-movies-music-wayback-machine-internetarchive/

in 2012 it was 10 petabytes. Now, it’s probably well over 100 petabytes. I think it well beyond the scope of torrents by now.

No platform whatsoever. Literally his only game plan is to antagonize every single policy the Democrats make the world a tiny bit better with.

If Biden made a PSA about how playing Russian roulette is bad, we’d get President-elect Vance tomorrow. And given how blindly these lemmings follow, perhaps President-elect Johnson the day after that, etc.

“Unpopular Opinion: [popular opinion]!”

Staying home was, in effect, a vote for indecency.

If voters demonstrated one thing this year, it’s that the decency of the candidate is utterly irrelevant.

This goes without saying, every country will levy retaliatory tariffs. It’s one of the reasons random tariffs are such a stupid idea to begin with.

They’re not a Trojan Horse. They’re just the Trojans, they knocked on the gates and said “yes hello we would like to come in to rape your women and children, pillage your valuables, and destroy the city.” And the citizens said “hmm yes eggs are a bit expensive” and decided to open the gates to willingly let them in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNX5OPkrfZk&t=64s