michaelmrose @ michaelmrose @lemmy.world

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Nobody who splits his own sides vote can win mathematically. To simplify you need side /2 - loss from infighting > opposition.

By continuing to shit on your own side you tend not only to draw votes for yourself you tend to decrease turnout, enthusiasm, and tell the other sides story for them. All with zero hope of actually winning because you will never out earn the default party vote. EG if just 10% just vote for the official party members it doesn't matter if you convince 55% of the remaining side to side with you you've already lost.

This is why this strategy hasn't worked this century.

Please pray tell when has a major election been won by a fellow running against his own side? Be specific. Remember major impact elections like Mayor of NYC +

If he knows what he is doing cannot possibly lead to his own success, splitting the blue vote can't lead to him winning, then he is deliberately trying to put the nazis in power over his citizens knowing some of them will be harmed. He's absolutely a collaborator.

Again you confuse cause and effect term limits could have easily meant justices losing their seats during Bush and Trump bringing about the same effect or worse. If we had gotten luckier or smarter with strategic resignation we could be talking about lifetime appointments keeping the judiciary independent from the president and protecting democracy.

If the people coming in are corrupt getting new corrupt people every term limit isn't going to make them less corrupt. It is the fact that lawmakers are so beholden to money to get and stay in office that leads to corruption in the first place. In your alternative America a lawmaker would be expecting to need somewhere to land after they hit the limit and would be more beholden to industry not less.

Wherein we successfully elect people who aren't beholden to money we needn't kick them out right after they learn the ropes if the people keep showing their confidence in them by voting them in.

Term limits ensures that you always have a new incompetence congress finding their footing before being replaced by new newbies forever out of step.

Also it can simultaneously be true that term limits increase corruption and we at present are fully incapable of reigning in corruption of any kind because we are bad immoral people on average. Your position is like arguing that cigs don't kill you because your presently already dying of liver cancer right now.

Wonder why not set a maximum width and have the de respect it eg you maximize and the window grows to max height but not max width

this well describes a taste I got when eating shrimp which otherwise had no reaction before I had a full blown puff your face up and trouble breathing from eating a different shellfish.

Then every offer was like this screenshot. I gave up and now I environmentally recycle perfectly good gear that someone could have enjoyed.

didn’t leave my goods up for a week and only get shitty bids. I stopped posting when the first bid on day one was insulting

Were you lying then or were you lying now?

Correct the low ballers don't come up they are pure time wasters

The funny thing is that you think everyone else is the problem when zero legit offers means its virtually certain your asking price was nonsense.

People with used obsolete goods often have expectations of value pegged to what they originally paid for it rather than what it’s worth.

Search your own or similar good on markets to see what other people are paying for similar or better goods.

Is Amazon selling something for 20 similar to what you paid 50 for 5 years ago? Shipped to your door tomorrow for free? Well then nobody is driving an hour out to your place next Tues to pay you 25.

Yes

Why wouldn't they when it works

None of this makes you any less of an asshole

You should have listed it for cheap but let them have it for free if they come get it right away.

They would have felt like they were getting over on you and you would have avoided the worst of the assholes

It's an insult you are too ignorant to understand is an insult. You wasted their time with your bs

Chime essentially a bank tells you how much the average vacation ought to cost if you can afford to take one not how much each person actually spent. Nor would you expect spending to be even. If my boss spends 10,000 and I nothing it's less than useful to say we spent an average of 5000.

If out of 10 people 5 take no vacation and stay home 2 spend 1000 and 3 spend 5000 then the average vacation would cost 3400. 17,000 / 5 . Poor people aren't poor because they fly to Hawaii.

You seem to have a lot of trouble with this.

It's ok

Let me help you with some math and logic. If 52% of people have flown in the past year and 70% of those flights were leisure then 0.52x0.7 = 0.364 or 36.4% flew for leisure in the last year and 63.6% did not.

Presumably the 2/3 who didn't fly for vacation also didn't spend 3000 and change which is hint just what a bank told you it should cost not how much people especially poor people are actually spending. There is a massive disparity between the haves and have nots in America.

Tldr: they aren't living paycheck to paycheck because they spent 3000 they are doing so because shit is expensive. People also aren't poor because they eat too much avocado toast.

You don't want a ladder unless you are cleaning the gutters