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Aerroontoday at 12:06 AM3 repliesview on HN

>let's vote on this proposal

>rejected

>let's vote on it again!

Is it still a democracy if you just keep redoing the vote until you get the outcome you want? The politicians involved in this should be ashamed of themselves.


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randuneltoday at 5:48 AM

Sounds a lot like nagging [0] with some trick wording [1] in the nag.

I think the website is missing a dark pattern here, spray-and-pray, which is throwing as many reincarnations of the same thing as possible, hoping one eventually sticks.

[0] https://www.deceptive.design/types/nagging

[1] https://www.deceptive.design/types/trick-wording

porksodatoday at 12:18 AM

Only if you have more votes after it passes, to vote on unpassing it again

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hermanzegermantoday at 12:47 AM

"Conservatives" feel no shame.

But they are first-class in acting like a victim

It's the same thing as with your republicans.

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