Especially roasted

It’s just the only one that I can imagine a physicist or engineer would be proud of.

To be fair they’re physicists, not English majors

I feel like it’s all gotta be from #8 right? It makes it pretty easy to get >0 legitimately, seems like it would be hard for anyone working on black holes to not have a double digit score from that alone.

Though I could see some cheeky positive values from #13, assuming the theory is a well established one, Randi style. (Or #20 for the typo)

I’m not unhealthy, they’re educated stupid.

I’m on Sync, dunno about anything else.

I have gone through phases of blocking very vocal idiots, but then as you said I feel at an informational disadvantage.

I’ve gotten recently into tagging people with descriptions of repeated behavior. That way I still know what’s going on, but I know what to expect from them.

Guillotines are too tame for modern audiences. Wood chippers are fresh and exciting.

Within the framework of a representative democracy not voting when you don’t have representation is the same as voting for someone who isn’t representative of your interests.

Within the framework of FPTP elections they are different. Voting against the person who is least representative, no matter how marginally, is better than not voting.

Could you clarify?

The claim was that electoral democracy was a misdirection, my point is that all the effort to manipulate it demonstrates that it is the seat of power, and the oligarchs have merely occupied it.

I would definitely lump those people in with the “liberals who do nothing except vote” crowd

Since they’re defined by not voting, they aren’t. They are, materially speaking, equivalent to anti-electoralists. The liberals are at least voting for plausible harm reduction.

And when the choices are all false ones?

Yeah, that was exactly my point.

Nobody saying that “electoralism is a sham” is saying that’s the “be all end all of their political responsibility.” They just generally have a broader definition of “political responsibility”.

Yeah that hasn’t been my experience. Especially in the last election cycle, I saw a lot of that supposed strawman. No community engagement, no actual political engagement, no workplace engagement, just “Kamala bad”. People who insisted that not voting or voting third party would send a message. Don’t pretend they don’t exist, I’ve talked to dozens.

I stand by my statement. All else equal, a liberal who does nothing except vote Democrat is better by far than a “leftist” who does nothing except tell people not to vote Democrat.

Its liberals who believe that voting is the be all end all of their political responsibility.

I’ll take a liberal who believes voting is the be all end all of their political responsibility over a “leftist” who believes not voting, and encouraging others not to vote, is the be all end all of their political responsibility.

Electoral democracy is ultimately a misdirection. Capitalists are the actual sources of political power in western democracies.

Yes, but a large source of that power is influencing electoral democracy. It does work, but all it does is reflect the choice of the people¹. It’s just that the people have been manipulated into counterproductive choices for so long. A defeatist approach to voting is one of those choices.

No, voting can’t be the only thing you do. But it should be one of the things you do, and you should do it intelligently. Yes, we all want a more representative electoral mechanic, but until we get it we need to accept the properties of the field we’re playing on and act accordingly.

¹ Gerrymandering, voter suppression, and all the other ways of skewing democracy away from the actual will of the people only proves the point further. They wouldn’t be bothering with all that if elections didn’t have power.

Only pedantically. Economic systems have to run on something, whatever that something is will flow to the top.

still believing that voting the lesser evil will buy time when decades of taking this course

Do you not see the glaring irony of that statement? We wouldn’t have had those decades without the lesser evil, we’d have gotten to where we are now 20 years ago.

What exactly do you suggest? Greater evil? A wasted performative vote? A revolution made up of millions of people who don’t have the organization to vote strategically, but are nonetheless willing to sacrifice their lives in violent uprising?

What’s your plan?

That’s exactly backwards. Anything but lesser evil is used as a self righteous virtue signal, and wasting a vote is extremely privileged.

Maybe? Just seems a bit prejudicial to assume, my experience has been exactly the opposite.

I think it’s better in the context of it being probably the most overt about being an homage to a genre. It was a modern take on old martial arts movies, and it was really good at being that.

The pacing, the framing, the dynamics, anything that felt a bit off was a perfect emulation of the style of the source materials. It feels a bit clunky, but in the exact way that old kung fu movies felt a bit clunky.

I can see why a film geek, someone in on the meta, might like it the most

Uh, yeah. That’s why you vote for the one who’s easier to fight back against. What did you think voting was for?

General media literacy is pretty nice.

I voted axe because chainsaw seemed like it would speed up the shrinkage.