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That makes the plausibility of projecting even more curious.

Also [that and the blog post posted 2 weeks before I said the thing] does not explain, nor refute, only further lending to my suspicions, like maybe something got misunderstood about some/all of what I said in:

Or, vote for something other than going to the bad place?

Someone offers you two pills, you don’t have to take either. You can make your own, and seek other options.

to make it mean

I don’t care, I have absolutely no preference

that you’ve twice reasserted

So yes, you did say “I don’t care, I have absolutely no preference”.

you’re saying you don’t have a preference

means I’m saying I don’t have a preference, without yet having demonstrated why… which is delightfully ironic from how that blog post starts…

Wernicke’s Aphasia (pronounced ver-nick-ees) is a neurological disorder involving damage to the part of the brain that comprehends the meanings of words. Patients with Wernicke’s Aphasia communicate with perfect rhythm, pronunciation, and fluency, except that words in their speech don’t mean what the patient thinks they mean. If you haven’t heard of it before, you should absolutely look up a video of a person with this disorder talking, it’s very interesting.

I bring up Wernicke’s Aphasia in the context of voting because I’m trying to come up with a good metaphor for what I mean, here. This idea of a person who miscommunicates in a way that is invisible to themself, but which utterly garbles their meaning. Maybe a better metaphor is those white people who get Chinese tattoos that don’t mean what they think they mean, but I can’t think of a quippy way to reference that. But the idea of losing something in translation is very much what I’d like to talk to you about today.

and from my suspicions from

Well, there’s this thing called voting literacy, and the thing is, if your voting literacy is poor, you can say things you don’t intend to say. So yes, you did say “I don’t care, I have absolutely no preference”. And it’s your responsibility to learn enough mathematics to be able to say what you mean. I’m not gonna treat you like a baby and find the intended meaning in what you say, you have to grow up and say what you mean.

and the context of no explanation offered to hold to account.

But I remain hopeful a clear simple (not time wasting) explanation can be given for such a simple thing that can be explained, rather than condescending self aggrandising hot air red-herring wild goose chase.

How is

Or, vote for something other than going to the bad place?

Someone offers you two pills, you don’t have to take either. You can make your own, and seek other options.

interpreted as saying

I don’t care, I have absolutely no preference

?

… Frankly a question made all the more needed to be re-asked since the blog post’s broadly making the same point I’m making with that statement, my comment in question is not falling foul of it, and certainly not saying "I don’t care, I have absolutely no preference”; all the more looking like it was not understood, and the reluctance to offer coherent illustration of how that’s been interpreted so, further lends to the suspicion of psychologically projecting, and succumbing to the psychology and philosophical communication fail mentioned in the piece about “voting aphasia” in that projection.

I don’t know when that time frame is, but, I have noticed an increase in poor modding in some places [which also lowered my interaction rate with the whole of Lemmy], and a drop in correspondence quality to nearer reddit level. But maybe that’s just from me as I expand out to more places in Lemmy.

Never saw that before.

Never going to unsee.

Slanderous misrepresentation. Did not say that.

So implausible, it seems you’re just trolling. Or maybe have crossed wires, replying to the wrong thing? … Or maybe have some psyop programs running that you truly believe what you say, with your perception perverted by some kind of groupthink and the false dichotomy fallacies the programming produces? Or maybe narcissistic deflecting and blame shifting and trying to save face rather than entertain an idea and concede the logic and learn from it? Or… maybe you’re on to something sound that you’ve just yet to effectively convey? But then, even if that’s so, we’re back to projecting, with the peculiarly expressed accusation of failing to communicate effectively (~ with mathematics?). And the condescending gaslighting hypocrisy doesn’t help your case much either.

If you can quote the relevant parts, I’m happy to hear out your explanation that refutes my claim I did not say that. Especially if you can do it without the inflamed ego toxicity. LOL.

Well rest assured, I advocate voting, and warn against doing a “no-vote” as that’s equivalent to a vote for “any tyrant will do”.

And I doubt I consume much “right wing media” at all. … Not sure I used the term as an adjective either… and so that whole line kinda threw me. Multiple ways invalid and unsound.

Yeah. Don’t say that. Who’s advocating for that? Did you think I was advocating for that??

I don’t understand the question…

… Is it like you want an exploration of his psyche?

Bruh, I do believe you may have responded to the wrong person. I never mentioned Marx here other than to say I didn’t quote Marxism.

But

This ain’t Marxism bruh.

Is what you wrote. The very thing I responded to. That mentioned Marxism. I was merely expanding on that, showing it’s not the one simple thing that many Marxists and many McCarthyians swing around like a homogenous cudgel.

It seems more like you’ve made an error there.

I’d argue that Donald trump was third party at the start

Donald Trump has always been their boy, even through his trust buying phase.

In 2004, a friend who had worked with Trump, came back to our home town for new years, in our fave pub, and told us what a joke of a played narcissist he was, being primed by his psychopathic handlers for a puppet presidency. It stopped seeming like an absurd plausibility about a decade later.

He’s their boy.

Bernie, alas, also, not the token virtue paragon we’ve had presented to us to placate us with as much as we’d like him to be. Solution space may be elsewhere yet.

Reminds of the Princeton study…

Yep. The self fulfilling defeatism prophecy. And *poof!*, the truth of it vanishes once it stops getting uttered and believed.

I don’t think all options have been seen yet.

I propose config-democracy, where “votes” can be as elaborate as people want, as direct or deferring as they want, updates when they want.

Not my left.

… Handy phrase to have when encountering “the left is” types of blanket statements to create an icon of hate to steer people’s minds by.

Say that, next time.

;)

She’d have done her job, same same. The plutarchs dgaf.

Oh but we love the placatium. Please let the band intermittently play some sweet soothing music as the ship sinks.

Can you spoil your ballot in protest?

ICE, started in 2003… remember when the Democrat party was in power, both times, all three terms since then, when they got rid of ICE and… ohhhh wait.

Solution space lays elsewhere.

The hour is later than you think, since both [sides of the purple party] are bought by the same interests.

There are even more less bad options, than the 2nd worst most likely to win. Baa-aa-aa-aad is still bad.

Well said.

Or as I take it a little further (s/someone/what/ hinting at more direct democracy too):

Imagine getting to vote for what you want, not against who you don’t want.

But I really like how you put it too.