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The conservatives had every chance of winning this election until Trump came along, and there is no way the Liberals would have hauled it in by focusing on climate policy.

Sometimes the best thing you could do for an issue is to not politicize it. Actually, I think this is the case more often than we tend to realize.

Would have been nice to see smaller, greener parties do better though.

If you visit American city You will find it very pretty Just two things of which you must beware Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air

— Tom Lehrer

I expect it's possible to remain anonymous within the moderation team.

It seems some questionable actors made it inside the reddit moderation team recently, so it's a valid concern.

STV began permanent and wider adoption throughout Australia beginning in 1907 and the 1910s. The single transferable vote system, using contingent ranked votes, has been adopted in Ireland, South Africa, Malta, and approximately 40 cities in the United States and Canada. The single transferable vote system has also been used to elect legislators in Canada, South Africa and India.

If the Aussies could figure it out a hundred years ago, one would think America could also be up for the task. Then again, America.

A huge part of the problem is the voting mechanics. People are forced to back candidates they don't support because of a moronic two-party system that only makes sense as a historical relic, and barely even then.

It's the kind of pain that will always come with being the first mover. Every active community on Lemmy faced this hurdle at some point in history - it takes a little while to reach critical mass.

Engaging with small communities and encourageing people who are trying to make it happen is a huge help. In addition to manageing your own, of course. Thank you! :)

"We liberals".

Yeah right. Troll harder.

Not to mention any attempt at making a reasonable argument is completely undermined by ending it with ".. and anyone who disagrees with me is a fucking moron". Makes it hard to agree even for someone who is fundamentally sympathetic to the point being made.

I think some of the greatest folk songs ever written recount events that have happened, and sometimes ties them together with some interpretation of whatever it might mean.

You could argue the assassination of JFK is such a monumental event that it doesn't need a song - just as I guess you could argue the same about the Titanic for -Tempest. I'd disagree - I'd say it would need an ever the greater song, and I think Dylan delivered perfectly in Murder Moust Foul.

I think most people would agree Blood on the Tracks is among Dylan's strongest, though it's hard to find an obvious meaning why it matters in most of the songs. They are incredible songs that take us along for the ride, and while it's sometimes interesting to ask "what", there's rarely any point in asking "why".

The whole album is full of crazy connections. Crossing the Rubicon has an insane amount of parallels to unpack. And I wouldn't say Goodbye Jimmy Reed is lacking in energy!

Thanks for looking into it!

I think maybe it makes sense to consider three different levels of opposition.

The first is the actively anti-human assholes. This is the direction that the US has certainly taken, that the Torys are prone to, and that trans people are at the frontlines of right now. This is where people fuelled by hate actively want to strip people of rights. As far as I'm concerned it's really the same battle be it for trans people, women, minorities, hell, even white men who are not landowners. I think the people seeking to take our rights away here won't stop before they have destroyed everything. Trans people first, the rest of us second. I think we're blessed with this group being very tiny in Denmark.

The second is just pure neglect. I'd say this is where the Torys really shine. Not giving a shit and defunding the NHS gets you to the same point eventually, but just with less opposition. A lack of education could also be put in this box. Denmark is not immune to this, but I think the current government is making an effort at least it some areas that matter to me. That said, I'm not a big fan - I certainly wouldn't vote for them if I had the right to.

Then, third, there's the lack of action. This is just thinking that the current system is good enough. Opposition to gender quotas would be a typical example from the women's struggle - for trans rights, it's access to affordable trans health care. Here one depends on the realization that in order to achieve a just society, it's not enough to simply do nothing. I think this is where the fight is mostly taking place in Denmark. It is an important fight, but it's also miles ahead of the miserable shithole of the first level I listed (aka Amercia).

Then again, that's just my attempt to make sense of it. There is overlap between the levels, it's not always clear cut, and it's easy to slide downwards. But I think it's nevertheless important to acknowledge that the fight looks very different depending on contexts.

Yeah, when I stated that it literally wouldn't be a dilemma any more it's because having the prisoners sitting in the same interrogation room would destroy it, the same way playing poker with your cards backwards would destroy the game to the point where it cannot really be considered poker any more.

Wasn't making a smarter point than that. :)

I guess there's a reason people argued about this dilemma for so long in the literature. :)