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“If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.”
– Terry Pratchett, in The Thief of Time
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Already happened in China in 1958, but I don’t believe ballots were involved…
Pretty stupid for a democratic country to have only three options
Yeah all good democracies have between 0 and 2 options.
Thankfully, 13 year olds aren’t allowed to vote
Being limited to only three options doesn’t sound very democratic but I suppose it’s better than a two party system. Instead of adding a self-destruct button, have you considered switching to a system which better represents the people?
Ranked choice, or first past the post?
Isn’t that what mass shootings are doing?
Just chiming in to say that this is the kind of thing on Lemmy where you just know that OP is from the US, even if they don’t state it directly. Most electoral democracies have a lot more than two options.
In my country, the current Parliament formation is representing 11 distinct parties, including those that only get like one seat. The electoral race always feature like 5 major parties and then some, and they are definitely not the same 5 parties from 40 years ago. It always baffles to think about how the US has only ever been governed by either one of the same two parties, and I find kinda sad that third parties aren’t viable there.
I find kind of funny when a Lemmy user from the US attempts to be generic but their assumptions that the US is the norm are very telling. I don’t think it’s ill-intended or evil or anything, but it’s still funny, and I see it often in here.
Haha yeah good point. Personally, I find it funny that Lemmy users take every possible opportunity to shit on Americans and America - including in threads which don’t really have anything to do with America - while at the same time going on and on about how friendly and kumbaya it is here compared to Reddit. Very welcoming atmosphere.
