Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 25/01/2025 09:44, D wrote:

  On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, 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.

 Very interesting. There is a libertarian party in sweden. I voted for them once or twice in my youth, I think they got 3000 and 3800 votes or so in those elections, and then I never bothered since they never showed much interest in actually growing, but was more a kind of discussion club.

Libertarianism was very much the province of the soft right - and used to be what the Tory party mostly were.

I would say, in eurospeak, that you are talking about liberalism. Libertarianism was invented to escape from the left apropriating the ism liberalism.

But at some point the entrenched elites decided that people should not really have freedom or they (the elite) might get 'replaced'
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Which is why we now have a third party topping the polls for the first time in a 100 years

Excellent!