Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 13:01:56 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <_hycnQxlN5kAphr6nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <69ce04cf-80a7-7170-675f-4165ffedc92b@example.net> <4985abd5-ec8c-44da-0105-0778434959c0@example.net> <27da50fc-f7e3-1462-2bf0-8e234043a319@example.net> <14a614d4-fc6d-2a68-6128-c465a49a73c3@example.net> <-BidndiUDpnKQQ_6nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <2055b2fd-570d-6159-dd88-82aab8101d23@example.net> <7efc79f6-74b9-62c5-8dbb-5595451c7453@example.net> <20489ac0-b3bf-d864-743b-d39cfb9d3e85@example.net> <4ab2f1f9-1030-7dff-77d0-7d159ac88607@example.net> <8978ecf7-de53-2e73-fc4d-7f4e8e02e855@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1224814"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:64842 On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > On 1/25/25 5:38 PM, D wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:44:53 +0100, D wrote: >>> >>>> Very interesting. There is a libertarian party in sweden. I voted for >>>> them once or twice in my youth, I think they got 3000 and 3800 votes or >>>> so in those elections, and then I never bothered since they never showed >>>> much interest in actually growing, but was more a kind of discussion >>>> club. >>> >>> The LP in the US tends to be a mixed bag of nuts that are extremely naive >>> about their fellow Amurricans. They manage to maintain ballot access in >>> this state. >>> >>> That's another impediment to third parties. Ballot access is determined >>> state by state and often is a Catch 22. If you received a certain number >>> of votes you will be on the next ballot. If you have never been on the >>> ballot, start collecting signatures and hope for the best. >>> >> >> There is some obscure rule in sweden that in theory would allow 10 000 >> coordinated people to move to the same region and get a seat in the >> parliament. I always wonder why no one ever tried it. > > It can be done in the USA as well, indeed the rapid > rise of the 'southern red states' is a more general > example. As to why it's rarely so deliberate, well, > people don't like to pull up stakes and move. This is the truth! Such an initiatiev would need a magnetic personality in order to direct the group and make them pull up their stakes and move. I thought of starting a libertarian community with the idea of everyone inside the community working on the black market, and crypto markets etc. and externally maintaining a nominally "normal" behaviour. But most likely it is just one of those fun theoretical ideas it is so fun to think about from time to time. ;)