It’s a trick to keep preserving an awful status quo in perpetuity for your whole life.

Surely the fascists will pack up and go home if the Democrats can just win this one time…

weirdest use of that meme format to date

also the irony of 145 IQ man tripping over his own grammar

also can we please push back against people who present news in this form?

Regardless of whether it’s true or not, it’s bad that we normalize putting claims on an image and sharing it for people to react to without citing any kind of actual source.

(also, it’s not even a proper meme)

It sounds like the sort of garbage you hear shortly before “anyway it’s not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic”.

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It’s telling that the same people who cut all funding for poverty reduction, education, and AIDS projects in developing countries across the world, suddenly have $20B to spare for this particular piece of foreign aid

That’s an astonishing amount of pettyfogging and nitpicking, that doesn’t even come close to dismantling the underlying argument.

Yeah, it’s an absolutely unhinged argument to suggest that the only way to a multi-party democracy is to move to a one-party system first. They haven’t thought it through at all.

It’s certainly “basic math”, in the sense of “unsophisticated” or “simplistic”. You’re persisting in treating something as a hard truth, that categorically isn’t.

There’s a variety of systems, America’s is far from special beyond the amounts of money involved. The UK has FPTP and over a dozen parties in Parliament.

As far as I can tell the main blocker to a successful multi party democracy is people like you promoting a self-perpetuating circular logic.

You say “most people understand”, as though basically every other functioning democracy in the world doesn’t have at least five or more parties sitting in their legislature.

(edit: curious about which of the downvotes are people butthurt about their democracy sucking, which are from bots, and which are from cowardly votescolds who wrongly believe that the path to salvation is to keep whipping people into propping up a failed two-party system that has led to America now being classed as a “Flawed Democracy” for the last 9 years by the Economist Intelligence Unit)

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Sorry, I’m still stuck on what the limiting aspect of it is. “Operating on hundreds of pages that each have limited reach” costs next to nothing if it’s all automated with bots.

Either I’ve not understood your point, or you’re suggesting that spammers would limit themselves to one instance?

Spam is about volume, and a 0.1% takeup rate would be a dream for a spammer.

How does location specificity limit spam? Surely the nature of spam is it costs nothing to produce and is done en masse.

And I mean any kind of bad actor really. Spammer, scammer, or even just a griefer deciding the gum up the system for lulz.

To be clear these are genuine questions, I’m not here to shit on the project or anything. I’d love more than anything for there to be good answers to them.

I’m not here to cheerlead for eBay, but I don’t think that’s entirely true.

What mechanisms are there to limit bad actors?

Just a general hint and tip from a DM who is tired of this shit.

Try being a better DM that doesn’t unnecessarily put their players into unsatisfying situations where they have to play against themselves. Make the thing their characters learn actually be something the player has to learn, instead of scolding them and calling them “bitches” when they don’t jump through your hoops.

Forcing a whole table full of people to deliberately be ignorant and pretend to “discover” things that they already know isn’t fun, it’s tedious. Even most “roleplay over gaming” types are still there to roleplay being a heroic skilled figure, not a dribbling moron that knows nothing about their own world.

Pretending to be a moron can be fun for some players, if they’re freely choosing to do it themselves. Being forced into it, especially if it happens multiple times, isn’t fun for most people. The guy on the right in that meme does not look like someone who’s having fun, just someone who’s briefly tolerating some bullshit so he can get on with the rest of the game.

This is the DM being thin-skinned about the fact that they wanted the players to have a challenge, and when it turned out not to be, wanting them to pretend like it was anyway so that they can tell themselves it was a good game.

Question. Do you know how to escape a car that’s upside down and submerged in water? Because if you don’t, there are a lot of things that are going to get you killed due to not being aware of what the issue is. it’s a danger that not everyone on the earth is familiar with despite the fact that it is a hyper common vehicle

This is a bad example. The point of the fire thing is that all experienced RPG players or readers of common fantasy literature know “trolls -> fire”. You’ve picked a scenario that would also be obscure outside of a hypothetical game outside of the real world. I’m not questioning the possible existence of a world where professional mercenaries don’t know that trolls are vulnerable to fire, but I do question its value as a fun game setting.