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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:58:00 +0100
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On 16/10/2024 08:36, Pancho wrote:
> On 10/15/24 20:29, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

>>
>> Our new government has united the country in a most unexpected way. 
>> Everyone agrees they are total crap.
>>
> 
> The failure of our democracy, and US democracy, is that we don't have 
> reasonable candidates to vote for.
> 
> Starmer, wasn't popular before the election, he actually got a much 
> lower absolute number of votes than most winners, lower than Corbyn's 
> both times.
> 
> I went through my candidates, one by one, trying to find one I could 
> vote for. I couldn't find one. I think PR would help.

So did I . There was one outstanding candidate. I voted for him

> 
> Same in the USA, who wants to vote for Trump or Harris?
Well except out of sheer up yours-ness, not many


-- 
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that 
the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

    - Bertrand Russell