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[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

I like the meme because of so many reasons.

Let's start with, if I am not misinformed, technically 21% of the levers could win against the rest of levers. Let's ignore the fact that those 21% levers are historically generally in favor of more genocide. And let's assume those 21% levers all go for third parties. Then they would still probably lose because they haven't voted for the same third party. So let's say those 21% are all committed to the cause and vote for the same party. In 2020, the biggest third party got 1.18%. but let's assume all previous third party voter unite and then there would be 1.72% third party voters. Now obviously those aren't part of the relevant 21% that we have been talking about but let's act as if. Now only 19.28% of all voter need to change their vote to third party. That are only 29 884 000 voters. Believe!

[–] TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Ok now do one that shows nice long tracks. And where if you vote to destroy the country, they stop sending weapons around the world to kill everyone when there is a local civil war happening.

Now how many people outside the US borders are being murdered at a point in the future?

[–] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Finally a realistic trolley problem!

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The trolley has breaks the conductor can push at any time, though even if they're pushed their efficiency depends on side levers next to every lever, and some levers are worth much more than others.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

trying to figure this out, is this about local government?

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And the House and Senate. The levers that are worth more are the electoral college like you pointed out and fucked up districts

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Other names are "street car" and "tram".

There's a community here dedicated to photos of them.

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Track 3 promises no death at all, but if collaborative action fails, Track 2 wins

Except this is not what happened in 2016. Even if every single Jill Stien voter had gone to Clinton, she still would have needed 50% of Gary Johnson's voters to win.. It's safe to say that most people voting for the Libertarian Party candidate would have picked Track 2.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The post is primarily about 2024? It just references 2016 as an example of the electoral college screwing things up. Also the left leaning vote split thing literally did happen in 2000 so like what are your goals here lol, you can make your own post yknow.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This post is citing data from 2016? So it's referencing something that didn't happen. Also, Bush beat Gore by 537 votes. Sure, if Nader hadn't run Gore would have won, but you could just as easily blame the loss on the Florida GOP, "accidently," purging thousands of legitimate voters by, "mistaking," them for felons, or on the Butterfly Ballot that caused an untold number of voters to select the wrong candidate. I guess my goal here lol is to point out when people are blaming their preferred candidate's loss on a mostly statistically insignificant portion of voters, and if you don't like hearing what other people have to say you don't have to post yknow.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 0 points 5 months ago

i’m not blaming anyone for anything, just providing a model of understanding things so there’s your confusion

also blocked for being mean for no reason gootbye.

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