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For the time being, it would effectively move fringe-party votes to the nearest major party - ensuring that e.g. Trump doesnt win if the majority of people had Harris or some third party candidate ranked above Trump.

Current “third” parties have a long way to go before they would end up in the winning slot - but, presuming the elimination rounds’ stats are published and not just the final winner, we could better gauge the support for them since voters could show preference for them on the ballot without “wasting their vote”.

After a while, evidence of sustained support may snowball, or a particularly compelling candidate may be ranked above a “major” party candidate on a majority of ballots - leading to a win.

If voting didn’t make a difference, they wouldn’t spend $650 million on TV ads

Fifth Element

Yeah, I agree. It just looked like that kind of flub

It’s on them, all they had to do was file the paperwork correctly. Nobody is banning them or shutting them out.

We are talking about a party that gets less than one percent of the vote - even in polling that isn’t subject to ballot laws. The will of the people is not really being misrepresented here.

Can you give me your best example of a Socialist country that represents democracy?

The big difference between Ellison and Ware is that Ellison can actually represent his constituents’ interests, because he has constituents.

The Green Party trifecta of Divisive, Unpopular, and Incompetent means they are never in a position to represent anyone.

Almost feels like he was reading a telepromter that had split the word “mig-rants” across two lines

They say supercomputer, but do they count Google/Amazon datacenters or just “named” supercomputers like the DoE’s scientific clusters?

AWS surely has more total compute capacity across its many datacenters

Water is another issue for xAI. Data centers use massive amounts of water to cool their servers; xAI says it will need 1 million gallons of water a day

“It would put stress on the wellfield,” says Scott Schoefernacker, science director for Protect Our Aquifer. He adds that “a lot of the water is just being used as cooling and it evaporates.”

Presumably it’s for evaporative cooling towers? I can’t imagine they’re heating it up from ambient and dumping it down the drain.

They actually never talk about Palestine, or even Israel. Only American politicians and parties.

Calling voters murderers is an outstanding electoral strategy

I liked Ralph Nader. I voted for him. George Bush barely won that election, and then started the “global war on terror”, instituted the PATRIOT act, etc.

I learned.

The more you repeat this, the more clear it is you have a very childish understanding of electoral dynamics and voter motivations.

Yes, that’s definitely a relevant and insightful comparison to the US electoral system.

This is like saying the dude blocking traffic by wandering around in the street ranting to himself is a “threat to the automobile industry’s power so they must be afraid of him”.

Weird thing to say about a group that routinely takes majorities in national elections.

Surely a party that, on a good day, gets 1% of the vote, and on a bad day, can’t manage to file the right paperwork to get on the ballot, is really what the people want.

You might get invited to the party if you didn’t hiss “you’re committing genocide” at ‘chad’ and ‘stacy’ every time you passed them.

Implicit in “profit so much that money becomes trivial” is that they think this tax rate should apply to very high profit businesses/individuals.

In fact the US’ top tax rate was 90% for almost a decade and over 70% for 40 years - during a time many would consider “golden years”.

They could have worded their statement better though.

Sucks to suck.

That’s an interesting possibility - is there any data to support it?

Here in Georgia the fight is in the center, for sure.