Yeah Absolutely. I don’t know about heavy equipment operators. Like, I literally don’t know enough about what they do. But the sappers and route clearance teams that worked with us are exposed just as much. And training is as much of a problem as actual combat.
Yup. The stuff that’s coming out is scary for anyone who was in Combat Arms for a long time. The thing is, you can look at the different sections of the military and see immediately where the brain damage occurs. Anyone adjacent to combat arms could have told you this decades ago. I didn’t mean that negatively. It’s apparent in the difference in culture, prevailing attitudes, and the soldiers around them continuously being quoted with stuff like, “there’s something crazy about those guys.”
Same echo chamber that’s been rattling around Lemmy, accusing everyone who doesn’t worship Biden of being MAGA.
Please stop using this argument. It’s a classic echo chamber claim. If it was true there wouldn’t be people complaining, much less voting for Trump.
Palin just being so clueless the polls turned against McCain the next day.
Are we going to construct fantasy narratives like the GOP does? I thought that was solely a GOP thing but I guess not.
Yes it is. But they’ve created an entirely different narrative to believe in.
You need to learn more about American elections and how the government is composed. I’ve told you several times that there is one winner per district. If you want to change that then go off, but don’t come in here spreading GOP propaganda while proposing the least suited version of voting for how we put our government together. I’m done responding to this. You really pressed F to doubt on how we elect people.
I wish. But no. No it was his own answers to the moderator.
So you don’t want the politicians to know how you feel on the issues?
You must be fun to live with, you complain that you think something is broken but you don’t want to help fix it.
If you can’t stay on topic in a stressful situation then yeah, there might be a fucking problem. A Stutter is fine. Switching topics completely is not a stutter.
Not really it ignores NYT’s actual argument.
NYT did in fact talk about Trump in their editorial. They lamented that any sane party would consider him ineligible after his debate performance. But because we can’t have nice things, the onus is now on Biden.
All the “rebuttals” keep ignoring that.
I’m not skipping anywhere, I’m familiar with the argument. I heard it ad nauseum from Fox News in 2022. The entire theory depends on ignoring the actual ideology on the ground and assuming Palin voters would just as soon vote for a Democrat.
And you haven’t mentioned any other type of approval voting until now so yes that’s what was assumed. STV is also a multiple winner election system. Which is also incompatible with our Constitution. At this point I’m not sure you’re familiar with the US Constitution but in order to do anything that has multiple winners we’d need at least 40 votes to support it in at least 40 different parliamentary bodies. 29 of which are controlled by a party that massively benefits from tying land to seats. No voting system that gives multiple winners going down the list is going to be compatible with our election system for the foreseeable future. Where STV was used in city elections, it’s been deprecated because having two different systems on a single ballot is needlessly confusing.
Well then what’s your preferred method for being contacted?
I’m not going to write an entire paper on the differences between journalists and spies to satisfy an Internet stranger. Organizations like the NYT act completely differently with their sources than Assange did. They release documents only after carefully checking for information that can put people in danger, and they never do something for the sole purpose of harming a country.
We know this law doesn’t apply to journalists because they tried to use it against them during the Cold War and the courts told them it wouldn’t fly. So all this hand wringing over civil rights is just concern trolling to defend someone who made themselves an enemy of the US by working with Russian intelligence agencies to interfere in our elections.
Edit to add - if you really want to claim our civil courts didn’t have jurisdiction we could always have let the military handle it. We certainly wouldn’t be watching him go home right now though.
SPAV still requires a proportional system. You cannot just magic it into our system. And even if there’s a state willing to go proportional, asking voters to use two different systems is a non starter.
Second. That source is shit too. It’s a bunch of mathematicians playing what if? This quote is as far as I got because it makes it obvious.
Peltola, could have lost by getting more 1st choice votes from Palin supporters.
If you’re going to criticize RCV it needs to be on facts. Not on fantasy situations that can be generically applied. Yes if some Palin voters in an alternate universe decided to abandon their entire ideology and vote blue, they could have kept Begich in the race and prevented Peltola from getting those second round votes. But that’s an absolutely ridiculous assumption and shows these guys are just playing the numbers game.
Which is what every conservative attempt to attack RCV voting in the wake of 2022 came down to.
You’re not bringing any novel evidence to the argument and you’re proposing a niche replacement that doesn’t even fit our system.
The time left is how long the entire campaign takes in most countries.
You do know that’s just an impromptu poll right? Like they just flip to the sheet of paper for that issue and put a tick mark in the for or against columns. Very rarely will they pass a substantive argument to the representative.