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swed420yesterday at 1:30 PM3 repliesview on HN

> Election denialism is unbecoming of anyone with a brain

Convincing argument you have there, but the choices we're provided between shit sandwich A and shit sandwich B are the problem, not which one wins.


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lanfeust6yesterday at 1:49 PM

This is akin to arguing "nothing ever changes or improves in Liberal democracies", when policy history doesn't reflect that.

Large parties represent large coalitions, so there are more compromises and things happen slower, but they still happen. Not always for the better, as we're seeing when populists are elected.

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sophrosyne42yesterday at 1:34 PM

This is a well known mathematical property of first-past-the-post election systems, as opposed to evidence of your grand conspiracy theory

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whoiskevinyesterday at 2:03 PM

No your choice was between a competent leader and a con man. When people type what you type it seems obvious you are attempting to avoid responsibility for choosing the con man. I blame everyone that has this "there was no good choice" bull. That is exactly what it is an excuse for blowing up everything and claiming no responsibility.

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