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What are you tired of helping and educating people about because you know they'll just be ignorant anyway? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 14 hours ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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When it comes to dealing with advertisements when they're surfing on their browsers. I've just learned recently about how Google has or is killing UBlock Origin on the Chrome browser as well as all Chromium based browsers too.

We've heard for years about people complaining, bitching, whining and vice versa about how they keep seeing ads. And those trying to help them, keep wasting time to tell these people that they're surfing without extensions. Whether it'd be on Chrome or Firefox or another browser.

By this point, I've long stopped being that helper because if you cared at all about the advertisements you see, you would've long had gotten on the wagon of getting adblockers by now. You bring this onto yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I just got banned from a sub for trying to explain this exact thing. Their response was "not that's not how voting works - if I vote for a person, they get my vote. If I don't vote for someone, they don't get my vote." and "Harris is literally saying the same thing." I sent a thank you to the mod for banning me because my brain was breaking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I have been trying to figure out how to combat this bullshit argument succinctly. So far I am at this:

If you vote for a person, it tips the ratio of votes they recieve (which is the only important thing in our system) in their favor. If you vote third party, not only does the ratio of votes between the two forerunners not change, but you completely throw away your representation.

The way the system is set up right now means that only half of the voting population is even represented by the elected person.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

I worry about the state of this country. Half the country doesn't understand tax brackets, I don't expect them to ever understand the problem with FPTP or learn about RCV