The DC crash is interesting. Have you seen this video? https://youtube.com/watch?v=1IUJpRwzHZU
Seems like there were several factors. But we'll need the black box analysis to know more.
The Helicopter pilot was certainly in the wrong place, but from their point of view, it's understandable why they were in the wrong place.
The question is, did the controller give clear guidance?
And would a second pair of eyes on the situation have helped?
It will take more than 8 years to repair the damage done so far.
ESPN, famous for controlling who goes to the Super Bowl... Oh wait, they have no control over that because there are 32 teams.
They can't even control who fans cheer for. Again, because there are 32 teams. And dozens of sports that aren't football.
Fun fact, the Vatican did use Cardinal voting (Approval) for a few centuries, until some rich assholes took over.
But aside from that, your comment is useless.
The reason why the media can control the narrative is because of the voting system. See, it's super easy to control two sides. Two teams.
But if you have a dozen teams, it's much harder to control the narrative. And with a dozen teams, some of them will be on our side and will break up the media monopoly. Hell, we had Trust busters under or current system, we can have them again.
But I guess defeatism is comfortable for certain people. But it doesn't get anything done, so fuck that shit.
All due to Ordinal voting. First Past the Post is the simplest Ordinal system, and completely broken if you have more than two candidates.
The only solution is a Cardinal voting system. Cardinal systems can handle two or twenty candidates without issues. Approval or STAR are the best options.
The sad part is, in 1780, First Past the Post was the only system available. It had to be adopted before mathematicians could look at it and say, hey shits broken.
The first was Condorcet. A French Mathematician who noticed the first problem with Plurality in the 1780s. But if you know your history, you'll know that being a French Nobleman in the 1780s was not the healthiest thing to be, regardless of how fucking based you were.
As an aside here, Condorcet was fucking based. He was antislavery, and argued for full suffrage for both women and the slaves that he wanted to free. He argued for universal education for all, and thought it would solve so many problems.
Anyway the next guy who saw the problem with Plurality was another French Mathematician and political scientist named Durverger. He proved that First Past the Post voting will always result in two party dominance. And he proved this in the 1950s. So not much to be done about it.
The next guy to put his name to voting science was Kenneth Arrow, an American who in the 1970s, showed that all Ordinal voting systems were flawed.
But again, the data came in far too late to easily fix things.
So here we are. The saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was 20 year ago, the next best time is now. So call your local representative and ask them to sponsor a switch of voting system to Approval or STAR.
By a worm no less.
Two rounds of counting. It's more of a feature. Think of it as an automatic recount.
As to knowing who wins. Well, that's always the rub. There is no system that lets you know who wins before all the counting is done.
There is an argument for simplicity, but if we're going to change things, we might as well try for the experimentally best option.
The thing is, Ranked Choice is broken in dozens of ways. It's actually more broken than First Past the Post.
It gives bad results that do not match the lies that it's advocates tell, because FairVote lies their asses off about the system.
Fuck, it fails the Monotonicity Criteria.
I'll explain this one simply. The Monotonicity Criteria says more support for Candidate A should increase the chances that Candidate A wins. Under Ranked Choice, listing Candidate A first can cause Candidate C to win.
That and the insecurity around counting make Ranked Choice a fucking stupid idea. It was a bad system when invented and it's not gotten any better.
Except unless they had been lobotomized, they knew damn well that their vote was being thrown away and that Trump would be the likely winner.
Which is tact approval of Trump and everything that came with it.
Doug was that sort of background racist that most MAGA are, but refuse to admit.
He flinched when a black man walked toward him, and then said he'd create "white jeopardy", not realizing that it was already a thing.
Tom Hanks pulled it off perfectly.