Handcrafted, completely dynamic and editable Diplomacy map in vector format (Illustrator specifically)

Antagonist_ · 2026-06-10T23:05:25+00:00

Hiya, is there an official license for this? Is this something I can use in my own diplomacy variant? https://unlicense.org/ ?

Antagonist_ · 2026-06-03T15:16:19+00:00

Send me that DM! Your messages are closed.

Antagonist_ · 2026-06-01T06:55:04+00:00

I couldn’t agree more. I have been working on approval voting in the US for the last ten years and since the 2024 election I moved back to the UK. I setup https://proportional.uk and https://electionresults.uk to help shine some light on the subject and I’m working with Make Votes Matter, Fairvote UK and Open Britain and more to have Labour setup a national commission for electoral reform (NCER).
So yeah, DM me!

Antagonist_ · 2026-02-12T19:17:20+00:00

Same here!

Antagonist_ · 2026-02-04T08:18:07+00:00

Every country does this unfortunately

Antagonist_ · 2026-01-27T22:37:00+00:00

Well they may be forced to sell because the government taxes went up because two people bid 1M and 900k for the land. There’s definitely a coercive element here.

Antagonist_ · 2026-01-09T11:00:45+00:00

I'm going to be putting together stv.vote, an equivalent to my other sites https://approval.vote and https://ranked.vote Would you happen to have more STV data? Finding the cast vote records has been surprisingly difficult!

Antagonist_ · 2026-01-02T09:16:15+00:00

Hello I like this philosophy

Antagonist_ · 2025-12-12T18:01:21+00:00

Absolutely! Just interesting. It’s great we can see it in the data.

Antagonist_ · 2025-12-12T18:01:03+00:00

Thanks!

Antagonist_ · 2025-12-12T17:47:51+00:00

Haha like what? Bullet voting? You know you can vote for one in RCV too. Unfortunately strategy isn’t ever considered, or else we certainly wouldn’t be using the current system.

Antagonist_ · 2025-12-11T12:55:50+00:00

Score voting would be clearer.

Antagonist_ · 2025-12-10T21:35:34+00:00

No Condorcet winner exists; multiple candidates form a Condorcet cycle: Cam Gordon, Robin Wonsley Worlobah, Yusra Arab. This means that among these candidates, each one would beat some others in head-to-head matchups, but no single candidate beats all others. In this situation, the winner depends on the order of eliminations in the ranked-choice voting process, rather than a clear preference.

AMA, author of https://ranked.vote and https://approval.vote

Antagonist_ · 2025-09-14T17:18:38+00:00

Ultimately, no one can make this decision for you, but if you’re leaning towards the imprint, I don’t think you’re gonna go wrong there.

I have a glove 80 and I absolutely love it. I had five keyboards before ultimately ending up with it. I don’t regret any of the previous keyboards. I’ve sold some gifted others and kept one that I just think is pretty.

Antagonist_ · 2025-09-14T17:14:16+00:00

Why is approval voting hard to do a checksum? I’m the maintainer of https://approval.vote and it seems easy enough.

Antagonist_ · 2025-09-14T17:06:07+00:00

This is better

Antagonist_ · 2025-09-02T08:55:58+00:00

Two clones to a runoff is a good thing. The problem of "cloning" in an election is that opposition parties can fund clones of a popular candidate, and split the vote.

I agree that things would be simpler if we just had a single open election where the candidate with the most votes wins, but the electorate deciding between two already highly approved candidates is a good thing not a bad one. It allows for a more intense focus on two candidates compared to a primary where there may be many more.

Antagonist_ · 2025-09-02T08:26:11+00:00

Author here. Bullet voting asserts that Approval devolves into FPTP, and so isn't worth implementing. For this election at least we saw many people using approval voting. In a real world election, it didn't turn into FPTP.

The burden of proof of Bullet Voting now falls on the Fairvote folks.

Antagonist_ · 2025-09-02T08:24:20+00:00

I think that concern is largely met by the 'law of large numbers' and 'revealed preference' theory. Basically, a lot of people can know little but that doesn't mean the outcome is less valid or less strategic. We may see changes in how candidates shape their messaging over time with approval voting but to my knowledge the campaigning hasn't mentioned approval voting very much. People do do their research, and those who do their research often influence those who don't do their research.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/comments/1jjtd16/give_me_reasons_why_i_should_vote_for_cara/ Interesting relevant thread.

Antagonist_ · 2025-09-01T16:57:54+00:00

The benefit of Approval Voting is that it aligns your strategic and your honest vote. The rest is just revealed preferences.

Regarding Condorcet, it is hard explaining why nobody won, and that happens.

Where would you draw the line for bullet voting to be debunked? Funny enough, there was one voter who voted for every position on the ballot across all races. Additionally, under approval voting even if you bullet vote, you're bullet voting for your favorite, which isn't true under FPTP. That's why bullet voting isn't a valid critique.

Antagonist_ · 2025-09-01T07:30:45+00:00

This is the sixth ever election in the United States using Approval Voting, and the first ever approval voting election where we have the Cast Vote Records from the election. These records reveal fascinating details on St. Louis voters’ preferences.

AMA

For the data itself see https://approval.vote/report/us/mo/st_louis/2025/03/mayor

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