bhazelrig.bsky.social
Retired bit-herder. Driving principles: kindness, integrity, well-maintained brakes.
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Heh. Yes, Pete, we are talking about you.
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They are behaving foolishly, although some may not understand why (“plurality voting” dooms any third-party candidacy to be nothing but a hindrance to the major candidate that more closely resembles the third party platform).
But most of the problem by far isn’t 3rd-party voters; it’s non-voters.
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I’m forcibly reminded of that quote “How stupid do you think I am?” In barely 2 months, the demolition team of Donald and Elon have made trusting in any promises or treaty with the United States of America a hallmark of stupidity. Our word is so much sand, and only fools would accept it.
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Thank you! I’m still new to BSKY and I quit Twitter near the very beginning of the Musk takeover - so I haven’t yet figured out how to get quickly to the original reply through all the replies-to-replies-to-replies that followed. :-)
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You really can’t, now. That’s a huge problem it doesn’t seem much is being done about; a great deal of trustworthy and accurate data and research is getting purged or mangled as a side-effect of other idiocy, and it’s entirely possible some is being deleted or altered deliberately.
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The target audience is people not already convinced of the point, so I’d really like a pie chart that shows (and enumerates) only the votes actually cast; your chart is a nice accompaniment, but “Less than half” is much more obvious in a pie chart than “less than 1/3”.
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Is there a pie chart available online somewhere graphically showing the actual shares of the popular vote for each candidate? I think that would make a more effective rebuttal than merely stating the bare fact that his share of the vote was under 50%.