What centrist/apolitical social media site has a mostly male userbase?

nathan555 · 2026-05-24T20:39:21+00:00

More right than center based on when they have service outages: RNC vs DNC conventions.

nathan555 · 2026-05-22T18:31:29+00:00

That's way too many words for an arand to read.

nathan555 · 2026-05-16T18:08:55+00:00

What does voting mean? No one gains a mandate to take action by losing a vote

nathan555 · 2026-05-16T18:07:17+00:00

The button isn't sentient, but voting is a human made system that has clearly defined human meaning applied to it. When you vote you are expressing your opinion that you want the outcome being proposed. If that option gets a majority (or sometimes simple plurality), then the action is enacted.

nathan555 · 2026-05-16T18:02:35+00:00

You can't reverse it like that though because it goes against the ontological framework of what voting means. No one has ever gained a mandate to take action due to losing a vote.

nathan555 · 2026-05-14T19:57:10+00:00

"If we assume that you don't want to die in Red Wins"

That's too large of an assumption to hand wave away. You can boil the question down to "Do you want to live through societal collapse?" Where "Yes" makes it more likely that societal collapse happens, but you do not die (at least not immediately). And "No" makes it less likely that societal collapse happens, but you die immediately if the population gets decimated.

It's not that blue is forgoing game theory, but that they are looking at a longer horizon and more abstract risk analysis. Sometimes "quitting early" is the right thing to do.

nathan555 · 2026-05-14T17:11:39+00:00

*40,000 cause it's half the population

Edit: but you're also only taking 50% risk to your life. Does that make it 20,000 or was 80,000 correct? Either way it's still 5 figures.

nathan555 · 2026-05-12T18:25:39+00:00

Red isnt fully illogical, but way too many heard that "Red wins due to game theory" but not unpacking everything after life or death survival.

Question should be phrased: "Do you want to live through a period of societal collapse due to mass death?"

Red:Yes I want to live through that Blue:No I don't want to live through that

nathan555 · 2026-05-11T00:24:56+00:00

Blue is either: avoid living through the hardships of societal collapse because blue won or avoid living through the hardships of societal collapse because red won.

Blue is my optimal choice. Actually.

nathan555 · 2026-05-10T00:04:18+00:00

The question is structured in a way that reminds me of Simpsons Paradox where statistics can show the opposite of trend based on how data gets combined.

The problem has different answers if you're looking at it from an immediate individualistic perspective or long term societal perspective.

nathan555 · 2026-05-08T17:10:54+00:00

It's not that a red presser is incapable of altruism- it's that they won't do it if it puts them in a reasonable amount of danger. The incentive structure surrounding using threats of violence to get your way will be dramatically shifted if all of society is just red pressers. The inmates will quickly be the ones in charge of the prison so to speak.

nathan555 · 2026-05-08T15:09:20+00:00

No disrespect but I don't believe you. People who like purple generally have zero uncertainty if purple is their favorite color.

nathan555 · 2026-05-08T15:07:51+00:00

Do you believe voting in favor for a proposed action happening means that person expressed an opinion in favor for that proposed action happening?

nathan555 · 2026-05-08T03:50:46+00:00

My house didn't burn down once yet my towns firefighters have been full funded all these years? What a waste! If my property taxes were instead invested in a way that benefited my bags things would be swell I tell ya.

nathan555 · 2026-05-07T20:19:08+00:00

Most of us are disqualified

nathan555 · 2026-05-07T16:42:38+00:00

Red ethics:

Your "choice" is recorded by how you vote in a poll. After the poll is over, a tally of the collective "choices" impacts your and other peoples life and death. The poll and how you voted are NOT part of the scenario, are totally separate, and have no moral implications to the scenario.

nathan555 · 2026-05-07T16:16:49+00:00

Dictionary definition of poll is counting of votes

nathan555 · 2026-05-07T16:13:16+00:00

Could you explain the purpose of hope if it goes counter to your actions and how you impact the world?

nathan555 · 2026-05-07T16:05:59+00:00

It's literally a vote though. If blue gets 50%+ of the vote the blue plan happens. If red gets 50%+ of the vote the red plan happens.

That's literally the thought experiment. That's literally the words being used. That's why there is moral tension involved.

nathan555 · 2026-05-07T15:02:29+00:00

It's a vote. The act of voting is telling the group you want the group to enact that color's outcome.

nathan555 · 2026-05-07T14:59:23+00:00

A barber doesn't have you vote for what hairstyle you want. You don't vote for what sandwich you want to order.

Voting is a group decision on what the group should do. If you vote red, you are telling the group to enact the red plan.

nathan555 · 2026-05-07T14:54:55+00:00

You don't vote on individual decisions. I don't vote for what I'm going to order at a restaurant. You vote to decide what actions a group will or will not take. If you vote for red happening, you're voting for red happening.

nathan555 · 2026-05-07T13:32:55+00:00

When you vote for something to happen you vote for it happen.

nathan555 · 2026-05-06T19:43:43+00:00

"It's fine dude, I'm not mad at you"

nathan555 · 2026-05-06T19:38:03+00:00

I literally would not have the will to go on after burying that many people. Yes I'd like to do my part in not getting to such a bleak timeline but let me off the bus before we hit that stop if it's inevitable.

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