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  1. /dev/urandom (2/2 vax) (devurandom@cybre.space)'s status on Monday, 26-Oct-2020 00:06:16 UTC /dev/urandom (2/2 vax) /dev/urandom (2/2 vax)
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    who knew that people of extreme wealth and revolutionaries seeking to redistribute said people's wealth by state force would all support the same moderate/slightly-progressive presidential candidate who had a rather conservative past record?

    RT @joehadist@twitter.com

    BIG TENT

    🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joehadist/status/1316966215462670337

    In conversation about a year ago from cybre.space permalink

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    • Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 26-Oct-2020 00:06:16 UTC Sorokin Alexei Sorokin Alexei
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      @devurandom A mundane result of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting
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      1. First-past-the-post voting
        In a first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP; sometimes formally called single-member plurality voting or SMP) electoral system, voters cast their vote for a candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins. FPTP is a plurality voting method, and is primarily used in systems that use single-member electoral divisions. FPTP is used as the primary form of allocating seats for legislative elections in about a third of the world's countries, mostly in the English-speaking world (the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, India, Pakistan, and other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations). Many countries use FPTP alongside proportional representation, for example, for special constituencies (e.g. for minorities or outlying areas) and/or as part of a mixed-member proportional representation system. It is also used to elect heads of state in Taiwan, Iceland, Mexico, and South Korea. FPTP can be used for single- and multiple-member electoral divisions. In a single-member election, the candidate with the highest number (but not necessarily a majority) of votes is elected. In a multiple...

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