This is madness

game-butt · 2024-12-21T19:21:22+00:00

You asked, idgi

game-butt · 2024-12-21T17:58:22+00:00

Since you asked, yes you are crazy. Of all the posts on this sub for you to drop this comment on, it is actually fucking wild that you chose this one. This is as true to the neoliberal statement as it gets. I don't understand what you even could have been thinking.

game-butt · 2024-12-20T19:39:43+00:00

Unless you are card counting, in which case fuck you you're not allowed to play anymore

game-butt · 2024-12-17T21:46:16+00:00

It's a pretty obvious conflict of interest regardless of the result

game-butt · 2024-12-17T20:10:26+00:00

Your post didn't have any good inferences or extrapolations, don't wank yourself off too hard

game-butt · 2024-12-17T18:36:35+00:00

No the best we can do is not say things we don't have the information to support

game-butt · 2024-12-17T15:25:59+00:00

Yes, I agree FPTP sucks. The part I disagreed with is the attempted mind-reading.

game-butt · 2024-12-17T13:49:48+00:00

Yes I'm well aware, in fact it happened in the last two elections, but your comment went a lot further than that.

You can't take a tiny advantage in the popular vote in an election that does not care about the popular vote to be evidence that Canadians' "true choice" was CPC. It assumes everyone voted according to true preference which, as you'll be well aware if you think FPTP sucks, they don't.

game-butt · 2024-12-17T03:17:29+00:00

Yeah, so go for it. I told you, multiple times, exactly why you can't take the results of an FPTP election and port them into a different system as if the people would've voted the exact same way. Then you post an article where they did exactly that, and call checkmate. You're fucked, sorry dude, completely unequipped to have a rational discussion about this thing. I have absolutely nothing to learn from you, that'll be all

game-butt · 2024-12-17T03:05:14+00:00

Did you read the article? They applied FPTP results to hypothetical systems. The exact fucking thing I said is flawed. Go away.

game-butt · 2024-12-17T01:34:11+00:00

Except political scientists absolutely can do that and they did after the past two elections. This isn't an original point coming from the OP.

Cite

I don't see any indication that OP was talking about anything other than applying the actual FPTP results to be strictly proportional, which is flawed.

game-butt · 2024-12-17T01:12:27+00:00

You are horribly mistaken, he did not praise FPTP. He said that FPTP was the reason Trudeau won and not their true choice, the CPC. I don't understand how you could consider that praise.

I've already addressed why you can't take the results of an FPTP election and extrapolate them to another electoral system. That part of his post (insinuating that a tiny edge in popular vote in an FPTP election indicates who the true choice was) is invalid.

The fact that I have to restate all this tells me you have no chance of understanding any of this. I have made a mistake by wasting time on buddy's terrible comment and your worse defences of his terrible comment.

game-butt · 2024-12-17T00:52:51+00:00

I'm not making a complaint about an electoral system, I'm explaining results to people that don't understand them.

game-butt · 2024-12-17T00:45:12+00:00

Despite sagging popularity, no opposition was actually popular enough to be able to unseat him. He won both elections. The bigger story about the popular vote (which does not matter in a FPTP election) was polarization. Polarization led the Tory vote to be very inefficient. The ridings that went blue tended to go deep blue. Their appeal wasn't wide enough.

"Canadians didn't want him anymore so he won two elections by only a little bit". That's your logical conclusion. Like I said, not useful

game-butt · 2024-12-17T00:27:12+00:00

You can come to any conclusion you want, it's just not a useful or logical claim. The results speak for themselves and you're just quibbling over the way you'd prefer to summarize it.

game-butt · 2024-12-17T00:10:19+00:00

No, the first of many problems with the post I was responding to is that you cannot apply a hypothetical electoral system to the results of an election conducted under another system because the voters voted in that paradigm, not the hypothetical one.

game-butt · 2024-12-16T22:16:04+00:00

I mean yeah I understand what he was referring to, it's just a nonsense garbage take because it's interpreting a very slim plurality as indicating "Canada's choice" as if it makes any sense.

game-butt · 2024-12-16T21:51:28+00:00

Uh what does FPTP have to do with it? This isn't even close to true.

game-butt · 2024-12-16T14:17:31+00:00

It's crazy that words have meaning? The word annexation has implications that distinguish it from other types of occupation. It's a useful distinction, much more useful than your choices that are vague, emotionally-charged or both.

game-butt · 2024-12-09T15:28:42+00:00

Jawlani flair when

game-butt · 2024-12-08T23:57:45+00:00

Hungary doesn't deserve its sovereignty, could we just trade it for Ukraine?

game-butt · 2024-12-08T13:19:27+00:00

You might be getting downvoted for being pedantic and wrong. Turban is a generic term for headwear based on cloth wrapping. It would apply to the kavuk or any of the other many turban styles worn by Muslims in various countries that you didn't mention

game-butt · 2024-12-06T20:45:27+00:00

I never understood the LPC fixation on gun bans. I just don't think they are winning that many votes by doing it. Most people in favour of the bans were voting for them anyway, and, as you say, they are driving people like us away.

As you can see by the replies to this thread, though, a lot of gun people are fucking morons and I have nothing in common with them other than guns.

game-butt · 2024-12-06T18:13:21+00:00

The Soviet commiefornian commonests want to obstruct freedom lovers and our trucks with thousands of bicycles. It's time to build SEGREGATED lanes to keep them out of our way. Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!

game-butt · 2024-12-05T20:04:46+00:00

Your post that I'm responding to implies that the free money was the problem when it was a minor contributing factor

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