Re: [Wikimedia-l] [tangential] Why voting is evil

2013-07-02 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 07/01/2013 06:38 AM, David Gerard wrote: tl;dr: voting creates winners and losers, and losers are unhappy and disengage. That piece is somewhat thought provoking, but amusingly naive. It starts from the presumption that individual decisions cannot impact the movement or the collective

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [tangential] Why voting is evil

2013-07-02 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 07/02/2013 11:13 AM, David Gerard wrote: He claims this is how he did the Pirate Party, so you appear to be claiming that a successful minor political party may work in practice but can't possibly work in theory. I suppose. :-) I'm surprised it did work; if it actually did it this way.

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Nederland report for May

2013-07-02 Thread Sandra Rientjes Wikimedia Nederland
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [tangential] Why voting is evil

2013-07-02 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 07/02/2013 11:42 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: Well, how would Marx feel? I'm pretty sure Marx also qualifies as amusingly naive, for much the same reasons. :-) -- Marc ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: