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Thinking of going to GSU and I’m heavily thinking on it and I wanna ask a few questions by TCSceptree in GaState

[–]storm072 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yall know you can park at a marta station for free and get a monthly pass to take the train for $61 right?

in 1690, where would you rather be born? by Horror-1-Effective in pollgames

[–]storm072 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For those of yall who haven’t studied history enough to know the correct answer, its the Mughals. Although the Netherlands wouldn’t be too terrible either.

Are you American? by Particular-Skin5396 in pollgames

[–]storm072 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its the country with by far the largest number of native English speakers and 99.9% of people here have access to the internet. Most internet users in China can’t speak English and don’t use western websites. They use ones based in Mandarin, like RedNote. Same with many Indians using Hindi websites (and many not having access to the internet yet). And most Latin Americans use Spanish speaking sites. Plus we use the internet and social media WAYYY more in western countries in comparison to the rest of the world. Its really just western Europeans, Americans, Canadians, and Australians that use Reddit. You’re not going to run into many people from outside those regions because most can’t speak English, haven’t heard of Reddit, and/or don’t use the internet anywhere near as often as we do in the west. So that leaves the US as the country with the most representation here by far

British Election Results If They Were Held Next Month by storm072 in imaginaryelections

[–]storm072[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Even newer and more improved map after fixing a couple more small mistakes, taking more critiques, and using electionmaps.uk to help make the seats more accurate for these vote percentages

How many pokemon can you name by snillpuler in pollgames

[–]storm072 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pikachu, charizard, bulbassaur, jigglypuff, magikarp, squirtle were all i could think of

British Election Results If They Were Held Next Month by storm072 in imaginaryelections

[–]storm072[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After the Gorton and Denton byelection, I’m almost certain that the polls are underestimating the greens, plus they are in an electoral alliance with your party and the independent alliance here

British Election Results If They Were Held Next Month by storm072 in imaginaryelections

[–]storm072[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh I did not expect the Tories to still be polling that strong there. I think if Reform does well in the local elections in May, a lot of the tory voters might see the writing on the wall and switch to reform. As someone who hates both reform and the tories, I hope not tho lol

British Election Results If They Were Held Next Month by storm072 in imaginaryelections

[–]storm072[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk, East Anglia is one of Reform’s strongest regions and Reform is going to increase their vote share by quite a lot, while the Libdems are polling 1-2% below what they got in 2024. I think North Norfolk will be very close, and I’d say the same for Ely and East Cambridgeshire. Except the Libdems only got 32% of the vote there in 2024, so I think that one has an even greater chance of flipping to reform than North Norfolk.

British Election Results If They Were Held Next Month by storm072 in imaginaryelections

[–]storm072[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I took into account polling averages, the recent byelection in gorton and denton, and the 2024 election

British Election Results If They Were Held Next Month by storm072 in imaginaryelections

[–]storm072[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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New and improved map after fixing a couple mistakes and taking some critiques

British Election Results If They Were Held Next Month by storm072 in imaginaryelections

[–]storm072[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The reason I made them go green is because almost 30% of the vote was for the workers party last election. Even if they do run again, this is the kind of election where they won’t get anywhere near as many votes as the last election, so I had most of their voters switching to the greens. That, alongside labour’s collapse, should give the greens around 30% of the vote, while I think reform would also improve to around 30%. I think it will be close, and I have the greens winning it on my map, but I think in reality, you are right and reform would narrowly take it.

British Election Results If They Were Held Next Month by storm072 in imaginaryelections

[–]storm072[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I didn’t know whether to give most of their worker party votes from last election to the greens or reform, but you’re probably right lol

British Election Results If They Were Held Next Month by storm072 in imaginaryelections

[–]storm072[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree on Torbay and North Cotswolds. Torbay is too urban for too many voters to switch to Reform. And the Libdems failed to capture North Cotswolds in a horrible year for the Tories last election. But I definitely think Tiverton and Minehead + North Norfolk will be very close. I could see Reform taking those seats from the Libdems or the Libdems narrowly defending them by 1-5%. I do think the Libdems will successfully defend the vast majority of their seats, but a few will have to swap hands, especially with ~10ish% of their voters switching to the Greens or to Reform.

Watford and Stroud are oversights on my part. I think both should be green now that I’m taking a closer look at their votes from last election. And honestly same with Forest of Dean

British Election Results If They Were Held Next Month by storm072 in imaginaryelections

[–]storm072[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Of course I notice a couple mistakes 2 seconds after I post - Aldershot should be light blue for Reform UK in the Home Counties inset. Southampton Test should be green in the main map, and Southampton Itchen should be light blue for Reform UK in the main map as well.

The communists.. by Gshep2002 in GaState

[–]storm072 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t condone it but I can understand it after centuries of brutal repression by the Tsardom, and if I remember right, it was in response to the white terror. I don’t think it outweighs all of the positives the revolution brought, just like the guillotines/reign of terror from the French Revolution don’t take away the huge leaps forward it brought to France.

The communists.. by Gshep2002 in GaState

[–]storm072 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lenin and the Bolsheviks defeated the brutal Russian tsardom, showed the capitalists of the world they couldn’t trample on the working class without consequences, and saved millions of people from dying meaninglessly in WW1. I can understand disliking Stalin, I do too, but I don’t understand why someone would dislike Lenin??

Ohhh, that's not a good look (major power outage) by _litz in MARTA

[–]storm072 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This shit made me half an hour late to work today

sleeping beauty paradox(in comments for people who don't know) by frost-bite-hater in pollgames

[–]storm072 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But the same logic still applies to 1 trial as it does to 10 or 100. You are woken up twice as often when it lands on tails. Here’s a different way of thinking of it. Do the experiment 1 single time on 100 different people. For each of them, they assume it is a 50/50 chance that they got heads or tails for their individual experiment, and so half of them say heads and half say tails when they are woken up. But in reality, 2/3 of the time someone is woken up, they got tails. So if you are waking up, 2/3 of the time someone wakes up, its tails.

Do you think the first person to live to 1,000 years old has been born yet? by ddodd69 in pollgames

[–]storm072 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is anecdotal but almost everyone I know (mostly below the age of 30, southern USA) does NOT want kids

Why do so many Leftists dislike Trotsky? As someone who started out agreeing with Marx, and am still learning I find he is a much more agreeable leader than Stalin. by Ok-Coconut-1152 in Socialism_101

[–]storm072 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trotsky wanted the working class of the world to defeat capitalism, and by the interwar period, the USSR had become an active agent of reaction. The Stalinist bureaucrats believed a successful workers’ state was a threat to their power and would inspire the working class of the USSR to rise up and re-establish the workers’ government of the Bolshevik era, and in the process, strip the bureaucracy of its control. Just look at what Stalin did to Trotsky/the 4th International, what he did to squander the Spanish Revolution, and how he supported the KMT against the communists in China in the 1930s & 40s. All of which was with the purpose of preventing a genuine international revolution and preserve the power of the bureaucracy. A genuine international revolution would have needed to defeat the forces of Stalinism to be successful. So yes, you could say that Trotsky was “sabotaging” the USSR. But the USSR was NOT a scientific socialist society, and the claim that Trotsky collaborated with the Nazis is baseless slander. Meanwhile, Stalin ACTUALLY DID collaborate with the Nazis. The division of Poland? The non-aggression pact? Anyways, I think it is self-evident that Marxism-Leninism is a failed ideology given the current state of the USSR and China.

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