abbotsbury

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[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Same couod be said of unfunny forced memes

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I really don’t see this as a negative strawman

All strawmen are negative, if a person (or their argument) needs to be caricatured to be attacked, it shouldn't be attacked. If it can be attacked and you're just caricaturing for fun, then you're diluting the argument and shouldn't.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Anyone using the word Obongo to refer to Obama does not make that distinction

idk, that's a strawman. Obongo is often just used as a funny word because it's 4chan

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Sure, that's plausible, but that's also just 4chan lingo.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

yes, which would make this specific criticism of Obamacare nonfactual, but anon is still not blaming socialized medicine like the person I replied to thinks

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world -2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I know what obongo means, don't know what "other side" discourse you think I'm looking for, but you seem to have made up your mind about what kind of strawman I am, so have fun I guess.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (13 children)

Obamacare isn't perfect and made some things more expensive for some people. Yes it helped others and overall I think it's beneficial, but covering your ears and pretending that anon is blaming socialized medicine entirely is just inaccurate.

Criticism, when factual, is good.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

The same argument applies in every other voting system

It literally does not, there are ranked voting and instant runoff systems where it doesn't apply.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Because the current system is setup to exclude third party voters, mathematically the FPTP system will result in a two party duopoly. And we've seen time and time again that the spoiler effect reduces votes to the party more similar to the third party.

So yeah, unless you get all the people to dedicate to a third party blowout, it is a waste. If an incumbent president didn't have enough influence to break the duopoly by going third party, do you really think it's ever going to happen? Particularly without a huge movement of said third party?

Pragmatically speaking, voting third party only serves to help the people you disagree with more.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're weird, I stated a fact about what was said. If you're so desperate for interaction, take it up with the person who said it.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

lmao what a total dork they are

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Nobody said reverse racism

 
 

Excluded is the one month of IGN+ or whatever. This one actually seems kinda decent, if not for the fact I have no interest in the System Shock remake.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Humble changed their pricing model this year, so it's my last year subscribing, so I want to use a little more discretion and skip some months because they do have "tent poles" that interest me sometimes. This month the tent pole is Persona 5, which I hear is good, but I still have Persona 4 on my backlog and it doesn't interest me too much.

 
 
 
 
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