I really don’t think most people will just up and murder or rape someone. People are more useful alive than dead and when they’re free vs oppressed. I don’t want to be an ass but I think you watch/read too much fiction. People are better than you think.

This is so confusing. Which party, if any, was supporting those measures? How’d they get on the ballot?

Again, the article does not support your assertion. It seems you have been led on by the suggestion presented in the article. If you consider the statistics the author presented without that suggestion, you’ll realize they’re fairly unrelated data points that add up to… several interesting, but unrelated data points.

Furthermore, it’s a nation wide data set, right? So how does that break down along state lines? For example, did enough people stay home in Michigan to affect the outcome of Michigan? We don’t know based on the data presented in the article.

Now, would you like to discuss my critical thinking skills? If you have more data I’d be happy to consider it.

I don’t see how your link supports your assertion.

Four parties would be quite interesting. I think we’d need to do away with the first past the post voting system and have ranked choice instead.

I want to push back on your second paragraph because I don’t think it’s quite right. Humans are literally the only species where individuals will cooperate with complete strangers. Pick 5 random people from across the planet, put them in a space together, and they’ll cooperate.

Yeah, it might be too soon to tell. On one hand it’s good to tell the corporate Dems they can’t offer something slightly better than awful, but then empowering the people behind Trump seems so dangerous. People are being harmed, including new people who weren’t being harmed before. Will it be worth it? Will it work out at all? Nobody is guiding this, we’re just reacting. The right is supposed to be reacting, but they have the power.

If that’s true then yes, I think you should stop

Right, not the best. Would you change your strategy?

Remember, no matter how beautiful, morally righteous, or gratifying your strategy is, you should really look at the results

How’d that work out?

This is contrary to everything else I’ve heard about drones, this can’t be right.

That’s literally how it works, dunno why you’re getting downvoted

Nah, a war in the middle east is normal. Nobody would accept a normal situation as justification to cancel elections.

I think this “do nothing wrong” tendency has something to do with intragroup power dynamics. I’ve often seen it used as a cudgel to knock down others within a group and stop mild dissent even though everyone is on the same team. Usually the most prolific wielder of the “do nothing wrong” cudgel rises to a position of some authority in the group, after which the group fragments because the person is insufferable but unassailable due to their moral superiority.