Populism Updates @PopulismUpdates Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum

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  • Magnergy@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Everyone should just ignore their actual incentives. Wow. What a wonderful solution to collective action problems; why didn’t anyone ever think of that before? Come on. I don’t believe you are that stupid.

    They gave facts and you dismiss them with a label because of a little ridicule? Your ending suggestion doesn’t even do the job… we can grant you the impossible, sure all those people vote third party. Result, still a loss, and their least preferred major party wins. Whoops, all those voters we granted you picked different third parties. Because as little as they barely agreed on preferring one of the major parties, they agree on a ranking of the “third parties” even less. If you ask for us to grant the impossible, at least make it one that would work.

    This is currently a multi-tiered 170,000,000 people system we are discussing. History and mathematics are against simplistic appeals for quick changes. Propose childish thinking, and it is little wonder you get ridiculed as acting childish.

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      3 months ago

      Your post is a prime example. i didn’t dismiss what they said. I pointed out where I disagreed with their concept of support, pointed out what bullying is, and then asked a consideration. I don’t need you to agree with me. I just was asking for consideration of a concept. Your generalized dismissal is enough.

      • Magnergy@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I presented a position on the topic. You ignored it in favor of discussing my comment’s tone.

        As for the concept, I considered it decades ago. The math was the same then as now, and time has only added those decades of supporting evidence.

        Ridicule of the ridiculous is warranted. And characterizing ignoring the reality of political systems as stomping one’s foot is the mildest of ridicule. It isn’t bullying. If you weren’t dismissing the facts in surewhynotlem’s comment, then I’m glad you accept them.

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          3 months ago

          Your position was not ignored. You spent your first paragraph insulting me, that isn’t tone. I’m reading on the math you mentioned to better educate myself regardless of your “tone”.