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by Ancapistani 250 days ago
Half the country feels the way you do. The other half felt that way for the past four years.

If centralized ownership is an issue, we should all work together to fix that. If the issue is the party affiliation, then it isn't an issue at all.
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colonCapitalDee 250 days ago
Half the country is wrong. I agree that centralized ownership is a problem regardless of party, but putting on both sides blinders is not the answer.
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gjsman-1000 250 days ago
In that case, do you agree a one-party state, run by Democrats, would be "correct"?
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ceejayoz 249 days ago
The "correct" setup is a loyal opposition during time out of power.

In the absence of that, a one-party state is probably better than a two-party state in which one party is actively trying to burn the system down.

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TrnsltLife 249 days ago
You're talking about the mostly peaceful protesters who tried to burn down the Federal building in Portland for over 200 nights, right? Sedition and insurrection.
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ceejayoz 249 days ago
> tried to burn down the Federal building in Portland for over 200 nights

If you're pissing your pants in fear of people who fail to do something 200 nights in a row, I'd argue that says a lot more about you than it does them.

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judahmeek 247 days ago
In the context of election security, absolutely.

After the wild amount of disproven claims made by republicans about election security, I don't trust them at all.

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johnnyanmac 249 days ago
When did HN become so bad at false equivalencies?

Can I say Singletons are not recommended but also agree that there are contexts where it's an "okay enough" option? Singetons are never the "best option" in modern software, but it's not the "worst" in every case either.

Now, filling your code base with incorrect calculations: pretty much always a bad idea.

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zeven7 250 days ago
Did Dominion have a party affiliation? I would assume we just went from neutral party affiliation to strong party affiliation, not from one party to another.
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Ancapistani 250 days ago
The discussions I've seen on the right certainly indicate that they believed Dominion to be affiliated with the left.

As for the reality, I can't say. I've not done the legwork to have an informed position.

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zeven7 250 days ago
So it didn’t move from one party to another
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dragonwriter 250 days ago
Dominion didn't, but it became a focus of blame by Trump for the 2020 loss, and so to MAGA it became, like all enemies, part of the Radical Left.
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Spooky23 250 days ago
That’s two reductive and poor arguments. Both sides fallacy doesn’t fly in 2025.

Voting machine anxiety for lack of a better term has been a presence for some time and isn’t a partisan issue. What is a partisan issue is President Trump’s baseless allegations re the election he hasn’t acknowledged losing in 2020.

Party affiliation is absolutely an issue with respect to Marvel villain parody that the modern Republican Party has become. I can’t read the article because Substack, but if the new owner is in fact a MAGA guy, (and this isn’t just drama) that’s a big problem.

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judahmeek 250 days ago
archived version: https://archive.is/xvdh0
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