I joined Lemmy back in 2020 and have been using it as qaz@lemmy.ml until somewhere in 2023 when I switched to lemmy.world. I’m interested in Linux, FOSS, technology, and several other subjects.

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  • qaz@lemmy.worldMto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonegleeks rule
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    15 hours ago

    I was trying to argue that candidates that aren’t from the Republican or Democratic party haven’t been elected from a long time. I looked up the last independent candidate, somehow forgetting that there were more parties. That said, the other candidates are still from more than a century ago.


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    This is my reasoning:

    1. America has first-past-the-post voting
    2. That means the party with the most votes wins it all
    3. The republican (41.7%) and democrat party poll high, nothing comes close (40.4%) (next up is Kennedy at 9.1%) and the last candidate that wasn’t from either party was George Washington (1789 - 1797), therefore a vote for another party is essentially meaningless.
    4. Therefore, either the Republican or Democratic Party win
    5. The candidates for both parties have been determined at this point and are highly unlikely to change unless any of them die, therefore either Trump or Biden wins.
    6. Therefore, all actions come down to 2 things: Increase the chance of Biden winning instead of Trump or don’t

    In my opinion, the only way to avoid each election coming down to damage control is to get rid of FPTP voting.

    EDIT: The last candidate that wasn’t from either party was not George Washington as lemonmelon@lemmy.world pointed out. It was Millard Fillmore (1850 - 1853).














  • OCR version:

    1. Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
    2. Opia: The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
    3. Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
    4. Enouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
    5. Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
    6. Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
    7. Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
    8. Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
    9. Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
    10. Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
    11. Vemödalen: The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
    12. Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening.
    13. Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
    14. Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
    15. Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster - to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
    16. Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
    17. Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
    18. Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
    19. Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
    20. Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
    21. Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.
    22. Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had - the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.
    23. Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.