Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

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.