Victoria Antoinette

People don’t upvote. You’re more likely to be criticized for a position than engaged with. Opinions that disagree with the hive mind are often quickly downvoted regardless of whether or not the position has validity.

i experience this constantly on lemmy.

deal with the misinformation in your community

capitalism superceded mercantilism about 2 centuries ago. it’s nowhere near as old as currency

communism is a wishful thinking pipe dream that turns into authoritarianism every time.

except every time it hasn’t

except all the ones you are ignoring

org mode

it’s heuristic, so it doesn’t matter what layout you use.

renters bring risks. if the home is on the market, they also make it a half to sell

thank you. this has been a problem since at least November.

I expect to have more options on my ballot than that

!modabuse

Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.

the analysis shows perot damaged Clinton’s margin of victory.

that isn’t part of how mussolini defined it.

you’re either aware of the problem and want to encourage people to vote third party while pretending not to know how the system works or you’re actually just ignorant to the issu

false dichotomy

FPTP voting systems result in a 2 party system and simply voting for another party does not solve the issue.

this isn’t an immutable natural law.

copying isn’t stealing

His video on First Past the Post voting should be mandatory to watch.

he doesn’t actually state in that video what should be the biggest takeaway: strategic voting is what leads to consolidation of parties, so your best interest longterm is to vote your values, even if doing so has a likelihood of losing short term.

snapdrop

I’m not sure you want to rely on Patreon in any case, since it also relies on the retention of rights for profit. In your scenario, when they upload to Patreon, anyone involved could tell them to get fucked and pay the author nothing.

anyone could do that now. people still get paid.