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Post by pksebben »

camgunz wrote: post #477
pksebben wrote: post #406

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So we ought to be thankful we're not in NK. Got it. Glad your bar is so high. It's apparent that you're decided but other folks will read this so let's break it down barney style. The 'third parties' argument is a painful joke, statistically speaking [0 1 2]. You can make all sorts of arguments as to why but the fact is that without support from D or R you can go get fucked. This raises the question - are there only…

I was sort of with you until Mamdani. He ran as a Democrat, in the Democratic primary. Cuomo outraised him by huge margins. NYC has ranked choice voting. Seems like things worked?

Ranked choice being the differential, and though a Democrat, Mamdani is a political outsider. Perhaps not the best example for the argument due to the affiliation but a pretty clear picture of the system's antibodies at work

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Post by int_19h »

slater wrote: post #506
int_19h wrote: post #505

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FWIW Putin would almost certainly have won a free and fair election today with a hefty margin.

Just like he's won all previous elections. Which, of course, were also free and fair.

I'm Russian, so I'm speaking from personal experience here. The media did some work back in the day to get him elected in the fir place, but they made him into a "strong hand" because that's what the electorate demanded. The people weren't duped into voting for an autocrat; they were openly told that this is exactly why they should vote for him - and most did.

From there elections kept getting less and less free, but it was a gradual affair - strangle the opposition TV first, then newspapers, then finally start playing directly with electoral fraud; fake counting etc. The purpose, though, wasn't to ensure a win - his popularity was always sufficient for that. No, it was to make it a win so resounding that agitprop could refer to it as a definitive popular mandate. And for parliamentary elections, to get the supermajority they needed for constitutional amendments. But that is how authoritarian democracy works - the majority votes in the government that cracks down on political dissent because the majority wants that. No amount of free press or free and fair elections would change that.

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Post by spauldo »

goopypoop wrote: post #514
spauldo wrote: post #513

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But not because they walked past someone smoking a cigarette.

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You assume I'm a smoker based on the fact I point out the mindless paranoia people believe, and casually wish me to die.

Is that the kind of person you want to be?

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Post by goopypoop »

spauldo wrote: post #515
goopypoop wrote: post #514

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You assume I'm a smoker based on the fact I point out the mindless paranoia people believe, and casually wish me to die. Is that the kind of person you want to be?

No, I believe you're a smoker because you implied so in another thread.

I'm not wishing your death any more than you're wishing death on hotel managers. Except you want to smoke more.

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Post by munsonbh »

DudeOpotomus wrote: post #100

If I got one of these I'd pay it and never, ever, ever stay at any hotel owned by the entity again. Being that I spend $25k-50k a year on hotels, their loss is a small hotel's gain. In fact, whoever does this will lose my business ahead of time as I will never stay at any hotel that uses this service. A few minutes on Tripadvisor and you'll know. Such incredible business myopia. Hotels are one of the few businesses t…

They undoubtedly wouldn’t charge someone like you. They would overcharge people who do not have an existing or potentially lucrative relationship with them, like families in town for a wedding.

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Post by spauldo »

goopypoop wrote: post #516
spauldo wrote: post #515

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You assume I'm a smoker based on the fact I point out the mindless paranoia people believe, and casually wish me to die. Is that the kind of person you want to be?

No, I believe you're a smoker because you implied so in another thread. I'm not wishing your death any more than you're wishing death on hotel managers. Except you want to smoke more.

I say that hotel managers won't be in danger of health risks from brief exposure to cigarette smoke. I provided reasons why. Thus, I am not wishing their deaths.

You ask me to smoke more, hoping it will hasten my death. Insert "we are not the same" meme here.

So again, is this the person you wish to be? Do you wish death on everyone that points out flaws in your arguments, or just smokers?

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Post by goopypoop »

spauldo wrote: post #518
goopypoop wrote: post #516

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No, I believe you're a smoker because you implied so in another thread. I'm not wishing your death any more than you're wishing death on hotel managers. Except you want to smoke more.

I say that hotel managers won't be in danger of health risks from brief exposure to cigarette smoke. I provided reasons why. Thus, I am not wishing their deaths. You ask me to smoke more, hoping it will hasten my death. Insert "we are not the same" meme here. So again, is this the person you wish to be? Do you wish death on everyone that points out flaws in your arguments, or just smokers?

Actually I was hoping to make you uncomfortable by pointing out that you know you don't even really want to smoke

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Post by spauldo »

goopypoop wrote: post #519
spauldo wrote: post #518

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I say that hotel managers won't be in danger of health risks from brief exposure to cigarette smoke. I provided reasons why. Thus, I am not wishing their deaths. You ask me to smoke more, hoping it will hasten my death. Insert "we are not the same" meme here. So again, is this the person you wish to be? Do you wish death on everyone that points out flaws in your arguments, or just smokers?

Actually I was hoping to make you uncomfortable by pointing out that you know you don't even really want to smoke

That's quite some projection you have going on there. I quite enjoy smoking, for your information. It's inconvenient at times, but so is everything I enjoy.

The "all smokers secretly want to quit" routine is another tale for the gullible.

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