The parties are not deprived of rights simply because the voters choose to make them preeminent.
The US is not actually a two party system. It's a two coalition system, and the right just hasn't gotten the memo.
After Ralph Nader torpedoed Al Gore, the Democrats and Greens (and later the DSA and the Justice Dems) effectively agreed to fight their fight inside the coalition tent.
The Right are only now getting it, that the Libertarians have to fight for control within the coalition, rather than pretending to be outside the coalition. The fact that we have party primaries exposes it. We have a British style confidence and supply and no-compete system, it's just we use different terms like freedom caucus.
I wish the Pirates and Libertarians would accept registering as Republicans and creating "Pirate Caucus" and "Libertarian Caucus" movements instead of continuing to play by old rules that the left doesn't use.
If I could have done it in one primary in my own county, I would have. The RIGHT candidate (an ex-military MAGA father) came up a dozen votes short of a one-issue loudmouth Baptist millennial Steve King fanboy who LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE SOY WOJAK. We're gonna lose that one in the general, cuz this kid can't win that district.
It's completely anti-democratic
Yes, we're Republicans. Democracy is a Greek recipe for chaos.
SM, I'm a committee member in my local party. You know what it's taught me? Our people are very, very dumb. Well meaning, but terminally dumb. Episodes of stupidity that would take pages for me to describe. Idiocy you wouldn't even believe if you weren't there.
I guess I'm an old fart because I just assumed all this security type stuff was mostly done at the software level.
Oh hell no.
Most of the state of the art attacks nowadays either hinge on using speculative execution to get the processor to cough up something it shouldn't, or excessive DRAM writes to induce spontaneous bit errors through electromagnetic coupling.
I'm not really seeing the problem here.
The state parties are not government. They are parties, with their duly appointed leadership and processes. I'm not particularly sympathetic to people who both...
A. Run as member of a party, and...
B. Don't try to either ingratiate themselves with the party and/or take the whole fucking thing over.
I have a great deal of respect for people who DO try to storm the gates and take a state party over. I've seen it happen before, with the Paulites in Iowa. It's beautiful when it happens.
Robby Starbuck strikes me as someone who's too lazy and impatient to build a coalition, and too much of an idealistic outsider to play with the team he has to work with today.
The steam engine was revolutionary but society survived contact with it. It was a self-limiting technology because it doesn't scale DOWN well. Even internal combustion wasn't a serious disruptor.
The Amish draw the line at electricity, not engines (many communities use gas tractors), and for good reason. Electricity divorced the use of the energy from the production of the energy. It was too convenient. Too scalable. It's impact on the individual was far greater.
I'm simply curious as to how any of you would describe your ideology.
Dickensianism.
I believe without any irony that humanity reached its peak immediately prior to electrification. The state of the valuation of labor, the amount of manual labor needed to sustain a certain standard of living, the valuation of energy, and the energy cost to transport energy to where it was needed had reached an equilibrium point.
What disrupted that balance was energy that required essentially nothing to transport. It will take centuries for society to adapt to a new normal where human labor is essentially valueless because of free transport of energy to wherever it's needed.
Feminism basically doesn't happen, AT ALL, without the electric washing machine and the electric kitchen.
You've said a lot that I though was irritating and stupid.
But this is fucking retarded.
Be predicated on scarcity dictated by physics.
Use silver, use gold, use fucking uranium. The principle is the same; an element that exists in a known ratio in the universe due to the mechanics of stellar nucleosynthesis. All that really matters is that we have a pretty good idea of how much there is, and we can't magically create a whole lot more instantly. That is how we're able to evaluate relative value.