🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@vga256 @rtsoft

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@freepeoplesfreepress

Calling what happened on the 6th a coup is a bit of a stretch... A huge stretch... Looked more like a riot to me, on instigated by police violence at the time from what I have personally seen, but thats another matter. I am sure if it had turned to Trump's advantage he would have leveraged it and turned it into a coup atleast.

But if we just want to agree Trump is evil and a threat as a president and doesnt care for democracy as long as he is in power.. on that we agree.

@TruthSandwich @alecui

@peterdrake I override == so it returns a string that says "Yes this is equals" or "No this is not equals", but override != to return "Please use the == operator instead thanks"... I amt he helpful programmer :)

@the_etrain

True, it isnt famous people that are better and smarter, its the rich people.... ::ducks::

@TruthSandwich @freepeoplesfreepress @alecui

Ok sure... what it proves is that third parties will and do break in, and usually do so abruptly going from <2% support to over 51% support in a single election cycle... Ergo any argument of "you shouldnt vote for the third party because it cant win" based on this "law" is nonsense...

@freepeoplesfreepress @TruthSandwich @alecui

> At this particular juncture in time third parties lack adequate and sufficient political organization and economic financial strength to compete with the Democrat and Republican Parties.

Almost every single time historically that a third party was able to take over this statement appeared to be true.

The truth is Duveger's law has some relevance, but not in the way people think. It means that until a third party has majority support it will remain at <2% in elections. Once it gainst traction you will see it flip in a single election cycle from 2% to 51+%, just as has happened every time. This sudden jump, rather than a gradual chance, is the effects of the law at play. Ya see the law doesnt mean a two party system, it just means the transitions will manifest in votes abruptly rather than gradually.

This means it will always look like they "dont have the strength" right before they win, thats the nature of the dynamic. That is also why we shouldnt let it decide our vote.

Bought more rings today (going to match them with my tie color). Here are all my rings in one place.

@TruthSandwich

Correct, what i showed disproved Duverger's law by counter-example. So how long ago it happened is irrelevant to that end.

As to why we havent seen a switch in the last 100 years is simple... because people bought the lie about a two-party system that was used to ensure evil remained in power, and now we have schmucks like you who want to do good but instead do evil because they bought into it (along with most americans).

It will only be true for so long as you buy the lie.

@freepeoplesfreepress @alecui

@icedquinn That would hardly surprise me if it did happen. I'm not familiar with it... But given how Biden grabs women inappropriately and the dems generally dismiss it, the pattern is clear.

@icedquinn

Well when it falls along political lines most things do wind up being a double standard... thats nothing new. Just look at how Biden inappropriately touched women, and that man is getting voted into office.

@TruthSandwich

So then ask Icedqueen if thats what he meant... What I meant I said, and at no point did I say anything about biden when i did so.

@icedquinn @alecui @freepeoplesfreepress

@TruthSandwich @icedquinn @alecui @freepeoplesfreepress

I dunno what your smoking man... My response never said anything about Biden.

@icedquinn Absolutely, just recently the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp case is an example of just this. Even after the evidence proving his innocent Amber is still going strong and Johnny's career still took a huge blow.

@TruthSandwich

Amber heard, despite clear and overwhelming evidence she lied, claimed she was abused and assaulted by johnny of a sexual nature. Before any evidence was presented (which we now know doesnt exist) he lost his career and was dropped from every contract he had, including the Pirates of the Carribean which was built around his character... His life was destroyed...

Turns out after the court case it was proven beyond ar easonable doubt Heard had lied and it was all unfounded.

Guess what, despite the damage to Johnny already being done, Amber still has movie deals and is still filming and her career seems to be better than ever.

There are thousands of cases of this happening to less famous people all the time. You'd have to be blind not to see it.

@icedquinn @alecui @freepeoplesfreepress

@icedquinn

I find it funny that tree often speaks for all people and what they meant.. talking about how all blacks are responsible smart pragmatic voters, or how all people meant something completely different than the phrase "believe all women" actually meant.

Anyone with two eyes can see time and time again that simply the **accusation** of rape is more than enough for people to treat it as valid even with a complete lack of evidence. People have been vocal and made obvious this was often what was meant. We have plenty examples of this from Amber Heard to Gooding.

@alecui @freepeoplesfreepress @TruthSandwich

@TruthSandwich @freepeoplesfreepress @alecui

Sure I can list them easily enough:

1796 - Switch from non- partisan to having two seperate parties take majority, the democratic-republic and federalist

Switches so far: 2

1828 - Another double switch with two new parties coming into replace the old two majorities, the National Republican, and the Democratic

Switches so far: 4

1836 - The Whig party replaces the National Republic party

Switches so far: 5

1856 - The Republican party replaces the whig party

Switches so far: 6

1912 - The BullMoose party replaces the Republican party as a majority

Switches so far: 7

1920 - The Republican party replaces the Bull Moose party again.

Switches so far: 8