federatingIsTooHard

First-past-the-post voting systems inevitably trend to two-party systems over time. We see it play out in election models and we see it play out in real life.

this claim is not falsifiable. it's a tautology with no genuine predictive power. it's not science, it is storytelling.

everything you said after this was also wrong

i love the thumbnail

it's in the article. more than 5000 messages to gmail users per day without dkim

Identity is the most important thing to people on the internet now

which is honestly and deeply confusing. because on the internet no one knows you're a dog! (oh. you got back to that two sentences later)

i just don't go in for identity. at all. no one knows i'm a dog, and i like it that way.

unless the Democrats want to give up one of their main vote-driving issues, voting for them isn't going to solve it either.

i don't want the government involved in anything. why would i want them deciding the degree to which they should be involved in someone's healthcare?

that's been overturned. you cant get it reinstated without an act of congress.

, it’s a strategic decision taken to advance your goals.

this part also assumed universal goals. one of my goals is to smash capital and the state. the democrat party will most definitely be part of that. voting for them doesn't advance my goals.

Voting is not about putting your support behind a candidate

this is the bit that i found most objectionable. almost all the rhetoric around an election talks about support: financial, popular, or political.

voting is definitely supporting a candidate, pretty much any way you slice it.

Voting is not about putting your support behind a candidate or identifying with them, it’s a strategic decision taken to advance your goals.

maybe for you, but your values aren't universal.

It seems pretty clear that queer people would be persecuted a hell of a lot more under Trump than Biden.

from what i can tell, it's getting wors, not better, in the last 5 years. i have no reason to believe it would get better with either of them.