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Rinox

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  • politically correct

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  • my point is that disaffected leftists voting for third parties [...] does not mean support for Trump

    With the current American Electoral law, it kind of does. Let's say that 5% of the votes instead of going to the Democrats go to some other third party. In an election this close, where both parties are likely to get between 48 and 52% of the votes, this would mean ensuring the victory of the Republicans.

    This is a huge problem with the FPTP system, but that's the law for this election. It would be great to change it, but that's talk for the next one. Voting for a third party ensures that the party you like the least will win in a FPTP system. CGP explains it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

    Not quite accurate. Voting third party signals that third party platforms are more popular, and can shift the larger parties.

    Maybe, but you are still conceding these elections.

    Organizing and mass protesting can get meaningful change, same as striking. Forcing concessions is the way true change has occured historically, not simply at the ballot box.

    You can definitely do this as well as voting for the party that best represents you. If you don't vote, it means you leave the choice of who will rule the country to the others. At least vote for the candidate that you think is more likely to listen to your protests, rather than forfeiting the elections in favor of the candidate that you know for sure will never listen to you.

  • politically correct

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  • If you don't vote, it means you are ok with either one and don't care enough either way to go to the ballot.

    Not voting it's not a third option, it's a statement that you don't care about either of the two options. Voting a third candidate is instead simply useless and in practice amounts to the same thing as not voting or voting with a blank ballot.

    So in practice the options are: voting for the Democrats, voting for the Republicans, doing nothing and being ok with either one winning or leaving the fucking country.

  • Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech

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  • It's not stupid if it takes hours instead of minutes to charge up. If this tech really delivers, then I'll be more than ok with a 200 miles battery that charges in 3 minutes.

  • There are too many of these people on lemmy

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  • And that was when, pray tell?

  • There are too many of these people on lemmy

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  • Quora ahahahah

    Also a whole block of text all to say he fought against ISIS and al-Qaeda. I wonder who else fought against them... Oh yeah, Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Syria and pretty much every other country they came in contact with.

    Now that they are mostly gone, the Levant is more stable. I wonder if he helped stabilize or destabilize the region...

  • There are too many of these people on lemmy

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  • Still no sauce

  • There are too many of these people on lemmy

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  • I'm talking about the murders and mass rapes that happened in Nazi occupied countries after the arrival of the Red army. Go ask the Baltic states, the Polish, the Hungarians, the Romanians etc.

    Also that number is just the "confirmed and directly attributable" deaths caused by Stalin in just the Soviet union. The real.number of death caused directly or indirectly by him is sooo much higher

  • There are too many of these people on lemmy

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  • What in the what?

    After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives was declassified and researchers were allowed to study it. This contained official records of 799,455 executions (1921–1953),[8] around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag,[9][10] some 390,000[11] deaths during the dekulakization forced resettlement, and up to 400,000 deaths of persons deported during the 1940s,[12] with a total of about 3.3 million officially recorded victims in these categories. [Also] the deaths of at least 5.5 to 6.5 million[14] persons in the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 (known in Ukraine as Holodomor).

    This from the official Soviet records only and only in the Soviet Union. Real numbers are probably higher. Winter War death toll not included. War crimes and civilian casualties by the Red Army during the march on Berlin also not counted.

  • Political mindset evolution

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  • democratically elected government officials

    Yes, and Mussolini won by plebiscite.

    The best democratic elections are those where you only have one choice, it's known.

  • Political mindset evolution

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  • Because there's always one. Name one county where there isn't a owning class

  • Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world

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  • I guess Spotify was running on the other 40%, as many other services

  • Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world

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  • I dunno, but doesn't like a quarter of the internet kinda run on Azure?

  • Donald Trump calls for Taiwan to ‘pay’ for its own defence

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  • A. That's not what you said. Normalization of relationship doesn't mean subjugation

    B. If the CCP wanted normalization they wouldn't be talking about invading Taiwan. They'd be saying "we're fine with Taiwan existing as their own nation we're willing to recognize them and sign a peace treaty if they do the same with us". That's normalization

    C. You're blaming the victim rather than the aggressor. The CCP are the ones saying they'll invade, Taiwan are the ones saying they'll defend themselves. It's like blaming the Palestinians for Israel's invasion

  • Donald Trump calls for Taiwan to ‘pay’ for its own defence

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  • Since when is the KMT pro CCP? Since when are they pro subjugation to the PRC? Since when is the KMT communist? Seriously, wtf did I just read

  • Rule

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  • Can we at least stop allowing people to use 'of' instead of 'have'?

    It doesn't make any sense and I need to read the sentence twice to understand what they're saying.

  • “Gay Furry Hackers” Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation Over Project 2025

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  • Zootopia rule 34

  • House Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Supreme Court's immunity decision

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  • Think if he did this to a supreme court judge, do you think they'd reverse the ruling? 🤔

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  • I can understand if someone like Google or Microsoft employs lawyers directly, as they have the resources and scale to do so. But someone like Telegram should really not do that. They should use an external legal office when needed. Even keep them on retainer, but definitely not open a legal office inside the company.

  • Management thought they could make us happy with a pizza party

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  • Fantastic seems like a strong statement. They're fine at best

  • Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler

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  • Not every app on Linux is compiled for MIPS, or am I wrong? I mean, technically Windows 8 RT could run natively on ARM without problems, except you couldn't run any apps, which made the whole thing 100% useless.

    Unless every app can run natively, you'll always have to run some sort of translation layer, either in software, hardware or both. That layer will have native performance.