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  • chaogomu@lemmy.worldtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world[Deleted]
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    1 month ago

    I’m an opponent of RCV for none of those reasons.

    No, I hate it because it’s deeply flawed and provides zero of the benefits that proponents claim it does.

    Rather than help third parties, it actually hurts them.

    The inventor of the system, created it as an example of a bad voting system. This was in 1790.

    There’s far more ballot spoilage when compared to any other system.

    It doesn’t eliminate the spoiler effect, just kicks it down the ballot a bit,

    It’s confusing to count, which has led to the wrong candidate being sworn in.

    It requires centralized counting, which is a single point of failure or attack.

    And finally there are better, simpler systems that actually do the things that RCV proponents claim RCV







  • There was actually an early sect of Christians called the Gnostics. That was sort of their whole thing.

    A core belief was that everyone was the child of God, and thus, was God.

    They also believed that Jesus asked Judas to go to the Romans.

    The early church wiped them out to the last, and we only know what we do thanks to some sparse records and modern archeology.


  • Is the leader alive or not? Alive is likely a cult, dead is usually religion.

    The next question is how isolated from friends and family or society at large are the members. More isolated is more likely to be a cult.

    Other than that, there’s not much difference.

    The usual setup is a cult is formed and then the second or third leader opens things up a bit and transitions it into just another religion… But sometimes a cult can be born from a religion as a small group breaks off to follow a charismatic leader.






  • Pretty much the exact same except that Hitler was a hardened war veteran, and Trump has been a conman all his life. Most of Trump’s cons were stupid and failed, but never quite hard enough for him to ever see consequences.

    Hitler also went to prison for his coup attempt. It was a daycare style prison, but he still went.

    Other than that, the similarities are striking. Likely because the only book that Trump in known to have read, is a copy of all of Hitler’s speeches.