So Labor....(and others involved)

[Associate Justice PiT]

     X% of the electorate not voting for the winner is a lousy non-argument IRL, and it is even worse in Atlasia when a good chunk is always dropping off due to not voting. What's more, attrition typically ramps up when Atlasia gets particularly large and the population rightsizes.

It's actually a very good metric considering the only remotely comparable examples were close-fought races. Y'all have killed participation in this game: own it.

     In other words races where the winner ended up close to 50% of the vote...like fhtagn did this time. Keep spinning.

Equating "close to 50%" with "winning by a vote or two" is disingenuous and you know it. She won by 25 points in the round in which she was elected and would have won in the next round by a much heftier margin than any one else in recent years who has carried anything less than 35% of the electorate (of which there are few).

     She won by 25 points because there were two other candidates who took almost equal shares. If there is one other candidate and you rack up just over 50%, then the result is winning by a vote or two. You're trying to tell me that a vote share of 51% is a fundamentally different result with respect to share of the entire population when the race is 51-25-24 than when it is 51-49, because the vote margin is different. You're creating an equivalence between vote margin and vote share that does not hold water, because there was an extra major candidate in there.

[Türkisblau]

Wow Atlasia looks like it's gone even further downhill. Does ideology even matter? All this ratf[inks]ing BS is a lot less entertaining when it's mostly teenagers in #southernchat participating.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Wow Atlasia looks like it's gone even further downhill. Does ideology even matter? All this ratf[inks]ing BS is a lot less entertaining when it's mostly teenagers in #southernchat participating.

Yes, apologies for not fitting into your little clique.

[Türkisblau]

Wow Atlasia looks like it's gone even further downhill. Does ideology even matter? All this ratf[inks]ing BS is a lot less entertaining when it's mostly teenagers in #southernchat participating.

Yes, apologies for not fitting into your little clique.

Wait what's my clique? lol, I'm a NONPARTISAN observer here.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Wow Atlasia looks like it's gone even further downhill. Does ideology even matter? All this ratf[inks]ing BS is a lot less entertaining when it's mostly teenagers in #southernchat participating.

Yes, apologies for not fitting into your little clique.

Wait what's my clique? lol, I'm a NONPARTISAN observer here.

Generally speaking people who use the "southernchat" argument judge for no apparent reason because oh my, people like talking to each other in a chat. I don't understand the constant judging of those who chat on said chat or those who take this game seriously, people are actually having fun or found something they can actually like in life and are constantly judged and at some points even harassed for it, if you don't like it, just ignore it.

[Türkisblau]

Wow Atlasia looks like it's gone even further downhill. Does ideology even matter? All this ratf[inks]ing BS is a lot less entertaining when it's mostly teenagers in #southernchat participating.

Yes, apologies for not fitting into your little clique.

Wait what's my clique? lol, I'm a NONPARTISAN observer here.

Generally speaking people who use the "southernchat" argument judge for no apparent reason because oh my, people like talking to each other in a chat. I don't understand the constant judging of those who chat on said chat or those who take this game seriously, people are actually having fun or found something they can actually like in life and are constantly judged and at some points even harassed for it, if you don't like it, just ignore it.

Since I'm not participating, I'm seeing what's happening for entertainment purposes. I find a lot of people in #southernchat boring so of course that's going to impact how I view the game when they run it. I'm friends with snowdude and smilo so it's not like I hate you all!

Congrats on defeating the biggest bores of them all (Truman and Lumine.) They suck more.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

If you saw the drama behind the scenes you wouldn't think it was so boring

[Türkisblau]

If you saw the drama behind the scenes you wouldn't think it was so boring

I know that you all love to stay polite on main atlas for some stupid reason but at least do interesting things outside of your chatrooms/pms. Maybe that could assist w/ increasing participation in the game.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

If you saw the drama behind the scenes you wouldn't think it was so boring

I know that you all love to stay polite on main atlas for some stupid reason but at least do interesting things outside of your chatrooms/pms. Maybe that could assist w/ increasing participation in the game.

Hey I've been trying to amp up the drama on atlas, see the last 2 posts Although this is a legit concern

[OSR stands with Israel]

Maybe the left will be relegated to the status the right was here from 2013-2016. Hopefully the next time Labor wins an election it will be when they become a centrist party. 

[Donerail]

Maybe the left will be relegated to the status the right was here from 2013-2016. Hopefully the next time Labor wins an election it will be when they become a centrist party. 

no.

[Adam Griffin]

Maybe the left will be relegated to the status the right was here from 2013-2016. Hopefully the next time Labor wins an election it will be when they become a centrist party. 

[IceAgeComing]

Maybe the left will be relegated to the status the right was here from 2013-2016. Hopefully the next time Labor wins an election it will be when they become a centrist party. 

good heavens know; we don't need too party that are literally identical rather than two parties that are merely incredibly similar.