Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 1/24/25 7:55 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:19:38 +0100, D wrote:
 

When you did not vote for them, did you then not vote at all, or for
some unpopular candidate who's name never made it to europe?

 My default 'none of the above' choice is the Libertarian candidate but the
LP outdid themselves this year with Chase Oliver. The state LP maintained
radio silence.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Oliver
 When Trump spoke at the LP convention he said something about the party
getting its usual 3%; he was being very kind. They did get 3.28% in 2016
but they are typically less than 1% on national elections.
 I pay more attention to the House, Senate and local races. The last time
the state went to a Democratic president was 1992. That wasn't out of any
love for Clinton; rather Perot siphoned off GHW Bush's votes.

>
 The Libertarian Party has SOME useful ideas, a useful
 way of looking at individual/state powers.
>
 Where it fails is in coming out of the 18th century.
 These aren't the days of Jefferson's "gentleman
 farmers" anymore. Near-anarchy will now IMPLODE
 like a supernova. There's no more 'civic consensus'
 anymore, no underlying idea of How Things Ought
 To Work. More like 300 million maniacs ....
>
 I'm actually registered as LP. A sort of 'protest'.
 Never VOTED for their people though and probably
 never will.

I am not convinced. I believe man is more good than bad. I also believe that the near-anarchy implosion is due to politics manipulating people into becoming enemies. Remove the puppet masters, and the puppets actually get along way better in their natural state, than anyone would ever want us to suspect.
You see... by perpetrating the myth that men without leaders kill each other instantly, the leaders and the state benefits. It's their only justification. If people thought that, we're basically nice guys, the state would eventually wither away.