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Anthropologically, I do hope there is serious research into how the 4chan parts of the Internet seemed like an unseemly side thing most people wouldn't have to deal with but actually that was the future of society.
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Trump has lost far more lawsuits than Musk but Musk lost a $44 billion one and then a $56 billion on so that dwarfs Trump on sheer scale of losses.
No idea how to handicap an epic one between them.
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The hilarious bit is Musk is obviously lying right here. There were surprises snuck into the bill to roll some of the House R's, but every single part of the bill Musk complained about were things we knew for months would be in it.
He's a fool or he has a hidden reason he's upset now (or both).
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Of course in practice, anywhere any better voting system is implemented, voters figure out how it works just fine.
It's just what it takes to sell it enough to get implemented. I think approval might be an easier sell, but maybe you're right now with Amazon score makes sense to the new generation.
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Here's the one chart you need to see:
- Abrego Garcia deported
- SCOTUS ruling gets press
- News coverage shot up
- Google search traffic shot up
- Trump approval fell down
and then
- News media moved on
- Trump immigration approval went back up
Exactly as predicted by the survey experiment.
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The simplicity is a key part of what makes it the best. It's close enough to optimal and removes the worst perverse incentives, but it's also simple enough for any voter to understand how to vote and also why the final result is what it is.
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In approval voting you never have that perverse incentive. You can approve of your top choice and meh or your top choice only, but you never have an incentive to give any more support to crazy over your true second choice.
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Eg, ranked choice if you think it's between your top choice and meh and crazy, you might think "crazy can't win" so will rank top choice-crazy-meh but then perversely crazy can win if the meh voters do the reverse tactic.
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Are the simulations assuming non-tactical voting?
I think the killer argument for approval voting over ranked-choice is there are definitely cases in ranked-choice where voters are tempted to tactically put the crazy extremist over their real second choice and that's where there's real danger.
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Approval voting is the best!
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That's not the only solution. Approval voting would also solve the problem - and doesn't even need ranking.
Ranked-choice voting is viewed with suspicion among some voters, so something simpler could work. Easy to implement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approva...
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Yeah 100% on Newsom and anyone who is actually going to seriously consider Musk maybe someone who can be a reasonable ally in the future.
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He's not handing it to him. He's saying "even a completely drug scrambled drug junkie can figure this out".
This is not helpful to making Musk a palatable person again.
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Raskin has been 100% against this bill every second of the way
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Appeal of the city or why does the city find these god awful people appealing as mayors?
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I love New York City, will defend many things about it.
But oh wow does it pick terrible mayors.
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He may be actually pissed that it's looking to massively rollback EV subsidies and do other things that will hurt his businesses, and just knows the better message is to attack it for the deficit increases.
Also he can't be happy with the "DOGS cuts were all bullshit" stories right now.
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I'm sure someone who got appointed to be New Jersey's top federal prosecutor probably has a stellar record in winning lawsuits in her private career.
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"Sure he's bad, but he's just consistent in his desire to tackle a problem that will happen in a short billion years from now."
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