Randy_M comments on A Voting Puzzle, Some Political Science, and a Nerd Failure Mode - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 10 October 2013 05:50:08PM * 2 points [-]

Hmmm... the things you complain about are all me anticipating objections to this post, namely:

Given Duverger's law and how bad the two-party system is, shouldn't the conclusion be not, "accept the two-party system" but "get proportional representation"? (Response: proportional representation might be slightly better, but seems implausible that it makes a huge difference.)
Skepticism about whether many people really buy the Obama conspiracy theories / "I'm a libertarian Romney voter and I'm offended!"

But maybe re-word and turn into footnotes?

Edit: footnote-ized!

Comment author: Randy_M 08 November 2013 08:34:46PM 0 points [-]

fyi, the "terroristic ways' was probably a reference to assoication with marxist bombers rather than muslim ones.