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Purely anecdotal but they’re the only news site that I’ve ever given my email to and I actually enjoy seeing their emails. They send entire (interesting) articles that can be read with no CSS/tracking images enabled and their monetisation is a small text ad that breaks a single couple of paragraphs.

I’ve never gotten an email from them that was begging for money or anything like that, just basically an RSS feed of interesting articles

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Take for example a situation where there are three parties. One is far left, one is center left, one is right. If 25% vote for far left, 35% vote for center left and 40% vote for right, it’s clear that the majority would favour a left candidate, but the right one will win.

Yeah, we have the exact same problem in Canada with our FPTP system :(. Canada is basically a two party state as well at the federal level. We do have additional parties like the Green Party and the NDP though and I wouldn’t want to refer to them as third parties. I guess where it works a bit better in Canada is that our smaller parties can create coalitions and/or have supply and confidence agreements that let them negotiate things in return for supporting the ruling party’s goals

I’ve always found it weird that not voting for the two major parties is considered “third party”. It’s sort of an explicit acceptance of having a two party state

The humour is based on saying that how someone acts is derived from the colour of their skin

edit: is it not?

edit 2: obviously Canada has a huge racism problem too, especially in regards to indigenous peoples but generally progressive people don’t make jokes like this because it’s honestly sort of racist

I’m Canadian so same here but we don’t try to label things “white thing” or “POC thing” because that’s weird

I get that, I’ve just found Americans online like to inject race into everything regardless of where they are on the political spectrum

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