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  • Yep. A third party candidate hasn't gotten a single electoral college vote since George Wallace, and the only time a third party has done better than either a Democrat or a Republican was with Theodore Roosevelt and his Bull Moose party, which crushed Taft but got absolutely obliterated in turn by Wilson due to the spoiler effect.

  • definitely accurate
  • Yup. Even if you ignore the theory that Earths surface is the post-apocalyptic "stone-age" setting of The Flintstones, it's still reasonable to conclude that the people in The Jetsons live in the sky because they trashed the planet.

  • We coulda had Bernie...
  • The voting system in the US is broken and people need to start voting correctly

    You're missing the point. As long as the electoral college and first past the post remain, third party candidates will never win. Never. It has nothing at all to do with people being "too afraid".

    The last time a 3rd-party candidate got ANY electoral votes(despite what the other person said, it has happened) was in 1968, and that was literally only because it was during the tail end of the civil rights movement and Nixon wasn't quite racist enough for the south compared to the full blown white supremacist George Wallace.

    The ONLY time a 3rd-party candidate has done better than one of the two major parties was over 100 years ago in 1912. The only reason for that is because the candidate in question was 2x former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, running as a 3rd-party specifically to oppose his handpicked successor turned rival Taft, who had become immensely unpopular with Rooseveltian Republicans. Well, two reasons: surviving an assassination attempt & giving a speech leaking blood with the bullet still in him like a total badass, just weeks before the election, probably helped too. Guess what though, it caused a huge spoiler effect that gave Woodrow Wilson a landslide 81.9% of the electoral vote despite only getting 41.8% of the popular vote.

    Third parties are just inherently incompatible with our current election system. We need to adopt ranked choice voting and ditch the electoral college first.

  • An $18 Big Mac meal sparked a revolt against high prices. Companies are finally listening
  • Also I have eaten the fucking egg MRE, McDonald's is certainly closer to food than that abomination.

    Fucking this. I once went on a week long "survivalist" camping trip. Your options for dinner were catching something yourself, or an MRE. Between the 5 of us that went, we caught exactly one rabbit the whole week.

    We got a mountain of McDoubles(this was back when they were $1) on the way home and it was heavenly in comparison to that shite.

  • Edward Snowden releases new message: "You have been warned"
  • He accepted Russian citizenship for his own safety so he could never be extradited to the U.S

    He got Russian citizenship less than 2 years ago. Why was extradition suddenly a concern when it wasn't for the previous near decade he had lived there without citizenship?

    yeah, I'm not shocked he didn't do something that would come with a big risk in Russia.

    That's the thing, he didn't need to do anything. He could've just not said anything at all, but instead he was outright claiming the idea of Russia invading Ukraine was nothing but US propaganda up until like literally a day(iirc) before the invasion actually started.

    You could argue he's only acting as a Russian asset for his own safety, but he's still acting as a Russian asset.

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  • You said they admitted to NEVER using anything but GIMP. Your gotcha screenshot screenshot you're spamming literally proves otherwise. It was the user at the top of this comment chain that never used anything but GIMP, not the one you've been replying to.

  • Edward Snowden releases new message: "You have been warned"
  • He's not overtly pro-putin, but he did accept Russian citizenship and was denying the possibility of Ukraine being invaded until like literally the day before the invasion started, which was long after it was obvious Russia was planning to invade.

  • Valve Let Team Fortress 2 Rot And They Should Feel Bad About It - Aftermath
  • TF2 is almost 20 fucking years old and has been F2P for 13 of those years, why should Valve care to do anything about it? Frankly, the official servers even still being online at all is more than most other games(besides subscription based games like WoW) of that era can say.

    Like, what were you guys expecting? For Valve to support the game the rest of your lives?

  • Surf Dracula®
  • It is then canceled while season 2 is in pre-production. The head writer eventually reveals S2 would've dealt with the rivalry between Dracula and up-and-coming surfer Nosferatu(played by the same actor as Dracula. Absolutely no one acknowledges their resemblance), leading up to the big Surf championships

  • Man with suspended license appears in Michigan court over Zoom while driving
  • On one hand you're not wrong. I've been driving with expired plates all year because I can't afford the work needed to pass emissions, and I already used my hardship extension last year. The alternative is losing my job, my ability to get a job, my ability to get to a grocery store in under an hour, etc...

    On the other hand, though... I'm not sure what this guy was expecting. Like, the vast majority of the cops in my area do not give a flying fuck about expired plates, but I'm still gonna make a turn I didn't need to if it means avoiding passing a cop. This guy literally livestreamed himself committing the crime he was accused of directly to the judge.

  • Lemmy communities need a distinct one word name for communities like how reddit has "subreddits"

    Part of the latest migration wave. Something I realized when looking for communities on google is that "lemmy community" is super clumsy.

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