In a quota that uses integers and puts 100 as the average, a lot of people will be exactly average. Therefore it is incorrect to say that 50% is below average. It’s probably somewhere between 48% and 49%.

InkScape.

I don’t fully know why but vector graphics just work for me in a way that pixel graphics don’t. I love fiddling with vectors.

Ne.

The “minimum support threshold” for Germany’s MMP voting system is 1% of the voters. Without even taking things like gerrymandering and strategic voting into account, the threshold for a first-past-the-post system like in the U.S. is often well over 40% of the voters. An absurd difference.

Sure, MMP is not perfect. No system is. But it’s extremely much better than FPTP.

That is not a proportional system of representation.

No system that creates a large amount of election “losers” can ever be fully democratic. If you vote for the second most popular party, or the third most popular, et cetera, you should still be given representation.

I was thinking TurboQueef but that works too.

Here in Sweden it used to be praxis for parties in parliament to abstain rather than voting no if they opposed a proposed government for whom they had no better alternative.

Then the nazis came into parliament and threw that praxis out the window and thus ruined a system that had worked great for over half a century.

Nonsense. It gives the same benefits that a simple massage does but a massage doesn’t put you at risk of paralysis or death.

It’s quackery.

You want an online community that allows both the right and the far right? That would be ALL OTHER ONLINE COMMUNITIES!

We came here specifically to get our own forum, where the centre left, regular left and far left are all allowed. This is a forum for the working class, not for the capitalists. And you capitalists can’t handle the fact that us workers for once get to have a forum of our own.

According to marxists, a capitalist is someone who extracts the surplus value of other people’s labor.

According to non-marxist socialists, a capitalist is someone who holds decision-making power in a workplace without having been given that mandate by the workers of that workplace.

In either case, owning your own business does not in itself make you a capitalist. Having non-owner employees makes you a capitalist.