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Re:To Save the Planet, Should We Be Moving Slower? by mycall on Friday July 21, 2023 @11:27PM (#36822906)
Based on the principles the country is founded on, these assumptions breed a First Past the Post which bifurcates individual principles and defaults to a binary system at large. Very emergent imho.
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Re:To Save the Planet, Should We Be Moving Slower? by defrost on Saturday July 22, 2023 @12:20AM (#36823219)
Yep.

That was my introduction 40 years ago to iterative dynamics and voting systems - FPthePost converges to a non representative duopoly.

I believe that to be an unintended outcome unforeseen by the US founders.

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