hmm

MASH is pretty good for a tv show

Indeed, I tended to only really follow factual claims of a specific nature during the 2016 elections

Eh, I noped out completely

Ironically, though i've found Tim and othrs. I follow the news a lot less. It's too fucked to one side or the other and there's so much crap reporting it's like, what's the point?

Neither Candidate was for me

so I just like. "I know how this is going to go..I lose either way..I am just gonna take a break."

I am working on a piece of technology which will hopefully make it financially viable again for news organizations to do high volumes of good-quality general reporting, which conveys an accurate picture of how certain the claims made are.

idk, i'm hoping for a rematch in 2020 , hillary vs Trump round 2.

be hilarious 😃

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

currently, the clickbait offers better ROI than quality reporting, I want to flip that around.

I would be fine with that Paradox

IRV can have some substandard results.

another year of not watching news

I could watch all of star trek

And IRV is really... not appropriate for the U.S. electoral structure

I probably won't be following 2020. I'll either be voting Trump or 3rd party barring some act of God . Im not looking forward to the insanity of that election cycle given how crazy it's been this year for the mid-terms

which is intentionally undemocratic

for non-nefarious reasons.

It would work for the primaries

oh sure

IRV primaries actually make lots of sense.

which is were the real rigging comes from

we should have IRV and have all primaries on the same day

The electoral system has caused a lot of problems, its supposed to potect agains the tyranny of the majority but it just means parties fight over territory instead of actually helping their constituents

well, if the party itself wants their primary rigged, they'll figure it out.

I listen styx's videos while cooking up breakfast and getting set for the day, cause he uploads them at like 6:40 my time, and then i listen to tims vids after i get home and have supper. Thats about all the news i watch anymore

@Risotto territory is the right unit of representation in federal politics though

I do Beck, Mahr, No Agenda and some youtubers

@Risotto the problem is that the federal government has taken on too many inappropriate roles, which means that people suddenly expect it to represent _people_ rather than _states_.

Yeah the federal government is too powerful

way too powerful

And not just that

it exerts power over individuals

which is the states' job.

yep

Looks like america could use a bit of freedom and liberty

too involved, power it should have, just not over the things it does.

I think it is reasonable for the federal government to be somewhat involved in the common defense

but we also have a considerable amount of technical separation of that power into state militias