boomzilla

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[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'm german and since 2016 I learned a lot about the US political landscape, figureheads, voting systems, political events, media etc.

I don't want to be condescending. It's just l spent way to much time reading articles, watching us media and documentaries to let that knowledge go to waste, so...I'm pretty confident to say that voting 3rd party, no matter who, is a bad decision. This election even more as the long-time future of your country depends on it so much.

You probably heard of the main argument against 3rd party already, namely the winner-take-all system:

Imagine 1000 people in an election district. 500 are hardcore MAGAs hellbent on voting orange Mussolini. 400 are "Vote Blue no matter who", 100 are "Both sides bad let's force a system change".

Ok got it? Mussolini wins. Even worse: he wins all of the electoral college voters of the district which unanimously vote the president. This pretty safe wasn't a very accurate description and the numbers are purposefully skewed to illustrate the principle. But at the end this is it. Your whole presidential election system needs to be reformed to truly can be called fair, democratic and make every vote, even 3rd party, count. If you want to know it more specifically google "Duverger's Law".

I repeat: Every 3rd party vote is a vote for Trump. That is why the European Greens have just advised Jill Stein to suspend her campaign. MAGA did this by letting Robert F. Kennedy suspend his campaign and endorse Trump. They learned from 2016 that when 3rd party voter turnout was at a record high 6% that it made Trump president. 2020 was only 2% 3rd party voter turnout. Good for Biden.

This all is bad enough and all the neverending crimes against humanity in Gaza are horrifying but under Trump the genocide will get worse. To understand this I would have to deviate into the connection of the US radical evangelists, the Heritage Foundation and Trump as well as his shared interest with Netanyahu. Oh yeah you also will get the chance to watch the USA transform into its final form of a white, rich, male, christian hypercapitalist dystopia.

Hope you can see now how 3rd party could backfire gigantically. If you understood it after considering the facts again, don't be angry with yourself. Just make sure you prevent others from making the same mistake these next 2 days when you see them walking into the same fatal trap.

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Reason for deletion: "Misleading name for a theory"

What does this even mean? I just quoted "Duverger's Law" which is could be proved multiple times in plurality voting systems, especially in 2016 and 2020 in the US.

Also: David MF Duke from the MF KKK endorsed Jill Stein. Now go and ban me if you want.

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Germany's first time voters helped the far-right (Nazi) party AfD getting a lot of votes in the EU elections recently. AfD's TikTok game (with Russia's support) is very strong. Go figure.

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

Very strange. I've seen it too. Must be a bug. I have no other explanation.

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or when he invited Netanyahu to Mar-a-lago in july 2024.

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah and now our industrial gas tanks are filled with non-russian gas, we got one of the most stable energy grids in Europe, we import 2% of our energy from other countries (0.5% from the nuclear power france) and export some of it on good days and energy prices & inflation rates are on a pre-2022 level. Thanks to the Green party.

Then we got rich populists like Merz, Söder, Linnemann, Spahn or Schäffler who are in close ties with the fossil fuel industry (The Republic, BlackRock, Heritage Foundation, Atlas Network, Heartland Institute, Koch Brothers) whose only target during their electoral campaigns are the Greens, immigrants and people on welfare payments. Blaming the Greens for political decissions they supported themselves while they were in power for 16 years (nuclear power exit, end of combustion engines, heating without fossil fuels and fricking bottle caps). Instead of working together with the progressives against the neo nazis from AfD they proclaim they're the solution against their uprising by fighting against the progressives. Weimar Republic reloaded.

All while our political imbecile citizens are believing their talking points and the smear campaigns of "Welt" and "Bild" (funded by above listed networks) that the Greens will be our downfall. I would leave this stupid country if I had the money.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1842811627994759358.html

https://x.com/Tentoads4truth/status/1822625100979397011/photo/2

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Please listen to "Jung & Naiv", Episode 733. Tilo interviews an ex-IDF soldier, now peace- and anti-occupation activist. You got a very skewed view about the goals of Israels far-right zionists.

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yesterday I read a thread on that bird site from a guy adressed at black communities, writing about Lee Atwater and the "Southern Strategy" which I never heard of. That guy basically wanted to reinstate segregation but more hidden, was an adviser to Reagan and wanted to help him into office by evoking the latent racist tendencies of moderate reps in a way they could still feel good about themselves. OP posted pictures of Atwater with a young Roger Stone and a young Trump and drew parallels to today. He warned all POC that the same thing will happen again. I hope that it was only a preventive measure and that in reality black people voting Trump are a tiny minority when they got a non-white, non-racist person right there running for office.

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

0.000006 if you're microdosing

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I just yesterday tried Wayland under Arch with a 1070 after a long time. Single WQHD monitor though. Although X11 is really performant, Wayland was more smooth regarding KDE desktop effects. Witcher 3 (via Heroic) showed fewer microstutters and I will try some more proton games and other applications over the weekend.

I recently had to downgrade nvidia drivers from 560 to 550 because wakeup from sleep and hibernate would coredump. I read that this is fixed with 560 but only under Wayland. The developers definitely progressed on the nvidia front.

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