Just because you’re too lazy to actually look them up, doesn’t mean that they aren’t full of equations.

This is one Proof of Arrow’s Theorem;

Let G be a coalition with size ≥ 2. Partition the coalition into nonempty subsets G 1 , G 2.

Fix distinct x , y , z. Design the following voting pattern (notice that it is the cyclic voting pattern which causes the Condorcet paradox):

voters in G 1 : x ≻ i y ≻ i z voters in G 2 : z ≻ i x ≻ i y voters outside G : y ≻ i z ≻ i x

(Items other than x , y , z are not relevant.)

Since G is decisive, we have x ≻ y. So at least one is true: x ≻ z or z ≻ y.

If x ≻ z, then G 1 is weakly decisive over ( x , z ) . If z ≻ y, then G 2 is weakly decisive over ( z , y ). Now apply the field expansion lemma.

See how helpful that is? No, Well, if you had a phd in math or political science it would be.

This is the wiki link if you want the full Proofs. And that’s just Arrow’s Theorem.

Durverger’s Law is both simpler, and more targeted. It simply states that if you have a system of government where there is single winner elections and plurality voting, you will inevitable have a two party system, and that further, any attempt to create a viable Third Party is not only doomed to failure, but is actively harmful to the interests of those Third Party voters.

In other words, the Spoiler Effect, Like what happened with Ralph Nader in 2000. He’s the reason why Bush won.

I always hated the Leninist model of communism.

Lenin betrayed the revolution because he lost the 1917 election.

He dissolved the newly elected assembly 13 hours into it’s first meeting. (Not that the meeting lasted for 13 hours, they had adjourned for the day, and then Lenin declared them all Counter Revolutionary)

That single act started the Russian Civil War.

Then he has the gall to claim that the new totalitarian government he formed was in any way socialist.

If the state owns everything, and you have zero say in what that state does, then you don’t live under socialism, you live under feudalism.

The only path to socialism is via democracy.

Arrow’s Theorem and Duverger’s Law.

Organize outside the system how? Armed resistance? Good luck with that. I for one, won’t visit your grave.

Trying to build a third party within the system? Fuck off back you your right-wing shithole. No one is going to fall for your also-ran spoiler candidate. Durverger’s Law and Arrow’s Theorem say that you cannot build a viable third party under First Past the Post voting. It’s literally impossible.

As to the “endless lie” You are willfully blind if you believe that this election year is anything like the years past. Trump and Vance are openly embracing fascism.

But hey, “Both sides” right? I mean, Biden has promised to fire most of the federal government to replace them with loyalists, and then use that federal government to attack anyone to the left of Nancy Pelosi, but no… that’s actually Trump again.

Trump, who is running for the first American dictatorship, and has promised to “fix” voting so you never have to do it again.

But go ahead and tell yourself that both sides are the same.

So, your plan for fixing everything is for the left to stop voting so that the right can win and make voting illegal.

Because that’s how it works.

This election in particular has democracy itself on the ballot.

It may be a flawed democracy, but the only other option is a fascist dictatorship.

There are no other options because of First Past the Post voting. Literally. The math does not lie.

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

Did you know that Nelson Mandela was the leader of a literal terrorist organization?

He ordered attacks that killed people. That’s why he was in prison.

And every one forgave him, and even voted him into power.

All because South African Apartheid was fundamentally evil.

Israeli Apartheid is orders of magnitude worse than the South African version.

Lenin betrayed the revolution. You mention the banning of the political parties. While it’s true that they “took up arms against Sovnarkom”, you’re leaving out the part where Lenin used Sovnarkom to coup the newly elected government because his party didn’t win.

Again, Lenin was flat out wrong. But I don’t think he ever actually cared about Russia ever reaching the true Marxist communist utopia. Lenin cared about power first and foremost.

He built up that dictatorship, and then handed it over to a monster.

Tried a bunch, but tried wrong.

The Lenin model of communism is inherently flawed for one simple reason. An Authoritarian Communism is an Impossibility. It cannot exist by pure definition.

The true ideal communism is a stateless utopia.

So yeah, the Lenin model is flawed to the point of uselessness. Or worse because any authoritarian government is going to kill its own citizens, while also being a low grade threat to neighboring countries.

No. The only path to true communism is via democracy. And there are countries that are moving in that direction.

There’s actually some merit to this statement.

In the late 1940s, the philosophical arm of the Lehi terrorist organization literally plagiarized Nazi race science with Aryan scratched out and “God’s chosen people” subbed in.

What’s worse is the links to white supremacy in all this shit.

The origin of many of these ancient alien slash ancient apocalypse “theories” are 1900s Germany.

People who were looking for a “scientific” reason why Germans were the superior race.

The core thrust of every “ancient” whatever theory is that ancient people were idiots and had to be shown how to pile rocks into a pyramid shape or shit.

The imaginary people who “showed” ancient brown people how to do shit are always depicted as white.

You may not, but the company that packaged the rice did. The cooking instructions on the side of the bag are straight from the FDA. Follow that recipe and you will have rice that is perfectly safe to eat, if slightly over cooked.

Over on reddit there’s an entire genre of this sort of fiction in /r/hfy

Except the truth is that no, almost every venom is safe to ingest. Provided you don’t have any cuts in your mouth or throat.

Snakes are not immune to their own venom. They don’t need to be, because their stomach acid can break it down.

As can ours.

It’s not a remake. It’s a sequel with the same director and writing team as the first one.

It also has a few truly disturbing scenes.

What is 2C-B?

As a teen, the main question I had was, “can I make a pipe out of this?”.

Now that I’m old, the question is mostly “why the hell is this still illegal on a federal level?”

It would have made shit so much worse, but is a sign of weakness in Putin’s rule.

That’s why Putin is so murder happy right now. He’s having to reconsolidate his rule.

Ukraine was a massive fuck up for Putin. He believes in the bullshit known as color revolution.

So he thought he’d pull one in Ukraine. A few years of some soldiers fucking around in the East, then he’d walk in and be welcomed.

Which is fucking stupid.

But Putin has long since killed anyone who would tell him that an idea is stupid, or that people don’t work the way a paranoid, backstabbing KGB trained psychopath thinks they do.

No, Putin fucked up hard due to the dictator trap.

Now he’s scrambling. He’s been killing off rivals and opponents at a breakneck pace the last few years, all because his position has never been weaker.

And he barely managed to diffuse a coup attempt.

He had to use treachery to do it, so the next time, the coup leader will not back down.

No, Putin is desperate to pull out some sort of win in Ukraine, because anything else is the end of his rule, and likely his life.

Now I’m thinking about a pair of elves is the worst sort of codependent relationship, but one light year apart.

They use sign language to constantly argue and make up with each other, but because of the one light year delay, they’re maybe never quite at the same place in the argument/reconciliation cycle, both of them arguing with their counterpart one year prior.

If it’s an old patent, chances are it’s expired and free to use now.