Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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    Itā€™s not that he invented anything, even something that was already invented. He claimed he could invent a new system if he wanted to and when asked to deliver, just namedropped an existing system.

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      Also a subjectively bad one at thatā€”given his america-brained position on wanting to maintain a single executive not that suprising but:

      • Why do you even need to default to winner-take-all?
      • Under winner-take-all dont you inherit most of the downside of FPTP? Sure there might be less wasted votes, but doesnā€™t actually make harder for 5% parties to get representation, since dominant parties have less of an incentive to negotiate and/or coallition build. (Though I guess subjective given Yudā€™s apparent dislike of many party working together in a coalition)
      • For a ā€œrunoffā€ system, the STAR system has the dubious distinction of allowing the condorcet loserā€”a candidate that would lose 1 vs 1 matchup against every other candidate in the fieldā€”to win, because a very enthiusastic minority can give a bunch of 5-star ratings.
      • At least FPTP has simplicity going for it, and not trying to arbitrarily compare not completely informed star ratings from voters.
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        I think itā€™s less america-brained and more just straight up cryptomonarchist.

        For what itā€™s worth STAR looks like something Yud wishes he would design, or would design if he could. A complicated system that assumes a highly informed electorate and allows for counterintuitive victory conditions sounds exactly like something appealing to him.