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| From | Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> |
| Subject | Re: Linux to be illegal in California? |
| References | (18 earlier) <20260520224023@news.eternal-september.org> <10ulsp7$f7t3$1@dont-email.me> <n77h4lFknumU1@mid.individual.net> <WDHPR.40365$bo1.1444@fx12.iad> <10uo6l1$14800$2@dont-email.me> |
| Message-ID | <Y4PPR.25835$%M1.13374@fx06.iad> (permalink) |
| Date | 2026-05-22 02:21 +0000 |
On 2026-05-22, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 2026 17:52:54 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> You're lucky you only have two parties to choose from. > > You can’t have democracy unless the voter has a realistic option of > more than two parties to choose from. In a two-party environment, voting feels like choosing whether you want to be shot or stabbed. Adding a third party lets you choose to be strangled instead. > With only two parties, there’s too much of this “but if you don’t vote > for us, then the other side wins” mentality. Unfortunately, we can't just vote for the party that will benefit us the most; it might not exist. We have to choose the party that will hurt us the least. In extreme cases, I'll hold my nose and vote for someone I don't really like but who is most likely to stop the one who could _really_ hurt us. > Greetings from 🇳🇿, a country with 6 parties currently represented in > Parliament (which is about average for us). We have a few ourselves: Liberal (centre-left), Conservative (right), New Democratic Party (further left), Green (sometimes), and Bloc Quebecois (separatist, not seen much outside Quebec). Do you have proportional representation? We've tried a few times, but the referendum always failed to pass. The ruling parties (of whatever stripe) make sure it won't happen - they've become too good at manipulating the "first past the post" system to give it up. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | growth is the ideology X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell. / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey
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