Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • But that video basically tells you straight-out… the usual campaign strategies are clearly wrong. You put out a campaign that gets people excited and suddenly way more people get out to vote. It’s not a complicated theory. It clearly works in practice.

    All of this conversation though, just shows how fucking poor democracy based around voter turnout is. Put elections on a weekend or make it a public holiday, and make voting mandatory (with the option of a blank ballot for those who really object to voting). It doesn’t solve all your problems. But it sure does help a lot.

















  • I would amend that slightly to

    The wizard’s face has been replaced by that of Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space 9

    To be more specific about precisely who it is so it’s clear from the caption that this is a Star Trek reference. (I’m not sure just the name “Sisko” is good enough.)

    Or alternatively, I would change it in precisely the opposite way and describe him as being “a black man with a goatee”, to describe just the visual inputs that a sighted person would experience when looking at the image, and let the reader infer who it is the same way a sighted person would.

    But I definitely prefer the more specific option.