Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking...
by hansvm on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:34AM
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For a broad range of voter preference classes, two-party systems are an expected result of majority voting. It's the best way to get the issues you care most about handled while hopefully not inflicting too much harm in all the other less important points that also get brought in. To fix that you need to change people's relative preferences or adopt an alternative voting scheme.
Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking...
by ctchocula on Friday June 17, 2022 @07:51PM
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I was down this rabbit hole the other day. For more reading:
Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking...
by gitfan86 on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:24AM
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Politicians have no accountability. In 2024 Biden will take zero responsibility for inflation and the economy and spend all his time talking about how Republicans are racist.
And Republicans will take zero responsibility for Trump and Jan 6th and spend all their time talking about how Democrats want to force your children to be trans.
In the end no one has any responsibility to do anything to actually make the country better. If Musk could start a moderate party that took responsibility for results I would be on board.
Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking...
by gsatic on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:51AM
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No party is going to solve the problems the US chooses to occupy itself with currently. They are too complex. The right move is to just pick simpler problems.
There is an upper limit to what level of complexity any group can handle.
But Americans have been told the upper limit doesn't exist so often and for so long that they are learning the hard way where the limit lies.
Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking...
by piva00 on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:33AM
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Musk and accountability? What dream world are you living in?
"the left" and "the right", or "the democrats" and "the republicans" in essence, is too wide a net. "The left go off the deep end" is also, when you look into it, a fairly small percentage of the wider population.
But it feels like people are pushed to the fringes, because the Other Side is being pushed to the fringes. There's just, from the perspective of an outsider, a lot of antagonism between the two "sides".
And that antagonism is being fueled by someone. There's people with a lot of money and / or special interests who benefit off of the infighting and polarisation.