this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
24 points (64.0% liked)

No Stupid Questions

35260 readers
1515 users here now

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.



Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.



Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Title

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To demonstrate the lack of a “clear mandate”.

Yes, Trump will win if he gets one more vote than Biden, but the more he loses the popular vote by, the more justification people have for protesting.

So if he wins on electoral college votes but loses the popular vote by a landslide, at least it shows what The People are actually thinking.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We can just as easily define the popular vote as being the sum of all non Trump votes.

No Trump doesn't need to be Yes Biden.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It doesn’t matter how you define it. It matters how the people that report on it define it. And almost universally, that’s horse race numbers.

Third parties are pretty much invisible for 95% of people until they start breaking into the horse race.

Nobody have a fuck about Ralph Nader or Pat Buchanan till they mattered for the result of the actual election in 2000. But only after the fact.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It matters how the people that report on it define it.

No, it matter how the strategy analysts view the raw data. Not the media.

Third parties are pretty much invisible for 95% of people until they start breaking into the horse race.

Only if you focus on winning. Bernie didn't run in the primaries to win. He ran to influence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bernie didn’t run in the primaries to win.

oh just stfu

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Help help. I'm being repressed.