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  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mltoTrans MemesPretty Easy Choice
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    Jeez I really feel like I live in a democracy! I have all these parties to vote for, but only 2 can be elected. Also I can’t vote for one because they’re facist. So I live in a democracy but I must vote for the Democrats, regardless of whether I want to.

    Also it’s the Democrats telling me all this. But the Democrats aren’t facists. The two parties aren’t the same.



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    If everyone voted third party, we would elect candidates who actually want to end the war, so yes voting third party does help end the war.

    In a more realistic world, it pressures the Democrats to change their mind about Gaza to get the third party voters back


  • You would have made a pretty penny if you bet on Trump in 2016

    My statistics professor did, which is what got me interested in the space. In general, he said, the betting odds are more reflective of reality because the further they are from the truth, the more money to be made by people who can detect that.

    So even if the odds are off, the chances of them being off by a significant amount are low.

    (And yes, it was unlikely for Trump to win 2016. The fact he did win doesn’t change that fact)













  • I don’t have a “top 5”, but the main thing was outdated software. I went to Debian because I wanted “stability” and heard that it was good, but it ended up meaning the “15-minute bugs” I encountered weren’t fixed for basically the whole year I used it, all the apps looked like they were made in 2007, and if it weren’t for Linux forums I would never have known that there were more “modern” Linux apps, and I would have been left believing Linux development basically died