[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's about one of the most disliked VP candidates in US history, a dude that wears eyeliner (I guess), doesn't know how many eggs are in a dozen, and is almost as bland as the last tRump VP pick! You don't even need to read a couple sentences to know that!! ( ˘ ³˘)

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Get rid of Ronald Reagan.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Why do we park in a driveway and drive in a parkway?

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I only played the Red and Blue version for Gameboy. That was years ago. Never touched the series after they started marketing for kids. I was in 7th or 8th grade when it dropped. The original stuff was pretty great!

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

We call it doin' a John Hancock!

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago
[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Polls don't mean dick. Please don't repeat 2016.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

More like they (politicians) would:

  • have to actually campaign rather than going to key campaign areas and ignoring those that couldn't help them win,
  • couldn't easily rig the game by gerrymandering the shit out of their districts to disenfranchise millions of voters, and
  • wouldn't be able to ignore the voters as easily once in office.

There's probably a lot more I'm missing but I'm sleepy!

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Wtf are you talking about? Who said anything about not wanting or trying to change it? But voting third party will do nothing but fuck yourself and the party you'd rather have in power. No one with less than a 7-digit bank account wants to vote for one of two parties. We do what we must today for a chance to do what we want tomorrow. To do otherwise is either disingenuous, uninformed, selfish.

The US almost dropped the electoral college in the last decade. Back at that time we had a moderately functioning govt, higher taxes on the rich, and less money in politics.

That's why I say it won't change now. It's even more impossible than the last time we failed to make it happen.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Tell me you don't know how FPtP voting systems work by not telling me you don't know how FPtP voting works. Please read up on it and the "spoiler effect."

Any vote for a third party is a vote against your preferred candidate. It happens with any first-past-the-post voting and two parties is the eventual end result. Eventually multiple parties get eliminated by voters who don't want their vote to go to waste.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I just got told today to begin Windows 11 build testing at work. No one in the meeting seemed enthusiastic about it even going so far as to make fun of it's many...issues. Once I'm done getting off Google services, my next move is too divorce Windows like Melinda divorced Bill!

I just wish I wasn't so good at fucking up Linux on every machine I've tried it on.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

But the sand isn't traveling around the desert at hundreds of kpms with the possibility to destroy you if you get hit by it.

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