[2020] CSM Vote Result confusion

If you’d like to see how the votes trickled off via the Single Transferable Vote system I’ve created a recording of my presentation from the announcement, which shows how votes flowed as candidates were eliminated or met the election threshold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMbnOT4PnGk&feature=youtu.be

This is slightly simplified and was made just working backwards with the voting data so there may be small errors - the voting data is the ‘official record’ - but it should serve to give you an idea of how the voting runoff elected the new CSM.

You can make up any kind of negative hypothetical “jobs” and assign them to people all day, doesn’t negate my point.

In EVE, for voting on a focus group, the players who have the most skin in the game - the most Omega accounts - deserve to having increased voting power because they are investing more in the long-term success of the game. Since, after all, the CSM isn’t a legislative body, there’s no fairness issue involved.

In real life, each person is inherently equal, and their choice of who represents them is no more or less valid than anybody else’s. Regardless of whether someone is rich, poor, smart, dumb, educated, uneducated - they each deserve the same say as anybody else in who their leaders are. Thus, one-person-one-vote should be the standard.

I hope that clears up my views for you, since you don’t seem capable of figuring out that EVE and RL are two different things.

You didn’t even get the name of the documentary correct when you told me to go watch it (as if I need an HBO depiction of an event I’ve studied for decades to understand anything), and at no point in our struggle for independence did anybody run for Parliament on the platform of “disband Parliament,” which was the point I was making in the first place.

Come on, dude.

My opinions are opinions. My facts are facts.

“All politicians are corrupt” = an opinion.
“The CSM is corrupt” = an opinion.
“Rich people’s votes count more than poor people’s” = an opinion.

All of this stuff is opinion. You saying it doesn’t make it true. My opinion is different. You’re entitled to yours, no matter how poorly it’s crafted or how uninformed.

It’s a shame that folks feel the need to hate someone else simply because they disagree.

Because that person contributes more to CCP’s bottom line.

This is a common perception, and one that I’ve found to not be true in my experience in politics. In the end, politicians will do what is popular with the largest number of voters, regardless of what the rich and powerful think, or how much money is given to them by a donor. Staying in office is one of their top priorities, and the minute they cross their constituents, even for a big donor, is the minute they lose their jobs.

This conversation is the equivalent of you guys telling a NASA engineer you know better than they do how to build a rocket because you’ve spent a couple hours playing Kerbal and watched Apollo 13 a few times on HBO.

I’m not trolling. I’m being honest - it’s disappointing how unwilling some of you are to acknowledge your prejudices and try to fight them. Instead, you insist that you’re right and you put words in my mouth that I never said to try to win the argument. You group people into “classes” instead of looking at them as individuals. You take the bad behavior of one and attribute it to all. You stereotype. That’s what this whole thread really is, honestly.

Again, I prefer to judge people by how the act, not what they look like, where they’re from, or what they do for a living. That’s how I was raised. I know not everyone feels that way, which is unfortunate.