I live in the north of Sweden. I always hope for a white Christmas. If there’s no snow, it’s so dark, and gloomy. A few hours of sunlight in a day. No snow usually means it’s cold enough for rain and a little bit of snow, but also warm enough to melt it to turn it into slush.

So definitely, we always hope for a crisp, snowy Christmas. Every year. More opportunities for outdoor activities then, too.

*whose adversary

Politicians are walking a fine line between catering to what the people want and deciding on things that actually benefit the people. It’s a difficult thing. Should politicians represent the people, or should they have the mandate to make decisions the people may not agree with but are better for the people.

At the very least, they shouldn’t make decisions that benefit only themselves and their rich friends. 💀

I have a hard time taking this as a joke, if it was intended as one, because there were very serious discussions regarding this before and after the election.

I consider your hair splitting to be an attempt to downplay it

Please don’t. Me admitting to hair splitting is meant to show how much I despise supporting either one. 👍

I think they support genocide regardless of who voted for them.

So in that case, we agree “voting for the lesser evil” has nothing to do with it, then. 👍

No I do not. I don’t think they support genocide either, but they do support a country committing genocide, which is absolutely disgusting too. But I’m perhaps splitting hairs there.

Do you think they support a country committing genocide because people are voting for them? Or vice versa.

I thought I already tried to do that but yes, definitely. I still don’t think there’s proof of this being a verifiable concept as shown in this image though.

Oh, sorry, I didn’t mean Discord is better than Matrix for talking. I meant it’s better than Facebook Messenger for talking. I was judging Messenger, not Matrix. 😅 I am definitely one to use and support free software where I can, even if commercial products are more polished. As long as all the functionality is there, I’m good. But in this case I couldn’t get all the functionality I needed/wanted, so I just kind of gave up on it… 😬

I don’t think I made any claims that this was a fluke. If so, it wasn’t meant to be received as such. I’m merely saying that one election is not enough to go on. “WE NEED TO LOOK AT MORE DATA.” And you seem to have more data, so that’s great. We’re not on opposite sides of an argument there, BTW, just so we’re clear. I’m having a conversation with you. Let’s not get hostile. 👍

Very late reply, sorry…

I believe I tried to do that whole bridging thing but it was largely unsuccessful. Like, the bridges that were available didn’t support certain things, like voice chat, or posting images, or what have you. At least I think Discord is better for talking. Facebook Messenger really makes me hurl.

I think you’re misinterpreting and down voting based on that. I’m not defending anything. I just don’t believe this is some kind of theorem. It’s just a problem with politics in America.

And I don’t know enough to make any claims about the history. I’m merely saying we have to look at the history to make any claims. This type of theorem can’t be based on one election. That’s all I’m saying.

You seem to know more about policies and shit that I don’t know about (I’m European). So that’s very insightful, and interesting.

It’s a shame the American people are voting right and/or settling for a right-ified left, instead of just forming a better party with better politics. 🤷‍♂️

It does not, but this happening for one election doesn’t prove an unstable ratio, or rate of change. You have to look at the historical pattern for that.

I don’t think this is the problem of some sort of “phenomenon” of a left party becoming the right party because people are voting for the “lesser evil”. That makes no sense to begin with. If everyone voted for the lesser evil (the left), the lesser evil would not feel the need to take on some evil from the right to please the American people who are voting with their rectums, dropping straight up doo-doo in their ballot boxes. They would be able to just have sane politics. No? Otherwise, why are they doing some evil? And why is the right doing a shit-ton of evil? It’s because they are playing the American people for fools. Exploiting their culture of “protect our land of the fReE” and their “black or white” argumentation and “we vs them”, “good versus evil”, “no gray areas” small brain mentality.

😐… where exactly did I lose you? Just asking “What?” doesn’t really help me to answer you. What is your actual question, please?

I mean, as long as it’s a stable ratio, the whole concept in this post falls apart. What are the statistics on left/right leaning presidents throughout history?

That simply explains what’s visible in the image, not whatsoever why.

If the democrats win, it stays where it is.

Like, why is this the general assumption?

If this were true, there wouldn’t every have been a democratic president, right? Except maybe once in the beginning?

Are there more examples of this happening? One event isn’t a very good sample size… “IT DIDN’T WORK GUYS, SEE?!”, I mean, sure… But there are more circumstances and variables and conditions to an election lol.

Then please explain how this works. This image isn’t doing it for me.

The image only works if the right always wins though?

That is actually insanely irresponsible journalism, if you can even call it that. INSANE. American news sources are just a wild west of “information”, isn’t it.

It’s been some months. I usually just game on Steam installed with flatpak on Arch Linux.

I’ll look into Heroic. There are quite a few such solutions. Lutris or whatever, and similar. It’s a jungle to me.

why people are so irked by a steam alternative

I’m not irked by a Steam alternative. I’m irked by Epic Launcher. It’s so incredibly slow to start up.

Also not available on much more than Windows.