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  • Is the primary that big of a deal? Given the limited time for campaigning it seems reasonable that the party appoints a candidate they can all get behind.

    I don’t really understand though - we don’t have primaries here. We expect our politicians to exhibit the suitability for the role by convincing their colleagues to back them - kinda like they’ll have to do in the wider government should they get elected. The parties just publish their lists of candidates (ranked) and we just vote for the party.



  • People tend to prioritize the comfort of those closest to them over anyone else, themselves most of all. Expressing different political views could cause problems in their families or communities so they’ll keep quiet and just go about their lives thinking it’s not going to affect them. Better to risk the lives of strangers, or even nieces, than risk losing their marriage. It’s why “First they came for…” is so powerful - we can see ourselves in it.






  • a lot of the arguments against third-party voting are arguments against voting in general.

    Maybe. But with the system in place a vote for a third-party candidate is effectively an abstention. I think you’re right that they’re more politically considerate and wanting to make a difference. It’s the desire to make a difference and effectively abstaining that seems incongruous.


  • If you voted according to your values, you voted well.

    Exactly. And while I agree, I also live somewhere that uses a variety of ranked choice voting for some elections.

    If someone truly wants to vote their values they should also have some understanding of how their voting system works.

    If a vote for the candidate you believe in results in your least preferred candidate getting ahead, shouldn’t you consider a compromise vote to get a candidate closer to your values in power?






  • asret@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldBumble
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    4 months ago

    As someone who’s not used these things, what’s wrong with a basic handshake to establish the comms channel?

    “Hey, are you listening?”

    “Yes, go ahead.”

    Isn’t that all this really is?

    Seems a weird thing for people to be uptight about.





  • asret@lemmy.ziptoFediverse@lemmy.worldLemmy.ml tankie censorship problem
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    7 months ago

    Perhaps I don’t really understand - looking at the world news community on lemmy.ml rule 1 seems to be about only posting links to news articles. None of the things on the mod log screenshot look like news articles. Isn’t this the mods doing their jobs correctly?

    The OP’s situation seems completely different to this and it’s definitely a problem - what am I missing about the rule 1 stuff though?