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  • 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.



  • Trump has basically openly admitted that if he had his way, this would be our last election.

    JD Vance is a weird corpo-monarchist. He’s written about it a bit, but his corpo-daddy Peter Thiel has openly spoken about it.

    Then there’s Project 2025, a literal blueprint for Trump to follow to turn the country into a christo-fascist dictatorship. Vance wrote the forward to the book form, but the author is holding it back until after the election. Not out of shame, but because they know that being so open with their plan has hurt them in the polls.










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    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.


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    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.


  • Hydrogen fuel cells actually show quite a bit of promise. Mostly for large trucks. Batteries have a scaling issue. A battery powered 18-wheeler needs a much larger battery for a much shorter range.

    Adding more load means you need more battery, and that larger battery is just more load that you need to haul.

    This is sort of true with everything, but the important note is that a full battery and empty battery weigh the same.

    Anyway. Commercial use is where it makes sense. There are actually a few other technologies that make sense in the commercial transportation space. Like ammonia.

    Keeping these rather dangerous fuels commercial also allows for more strict safety standards.




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    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.