[EM] truth

[Michael Ossipoff]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 07:10 Michael Garman <michael.garman at rankthevote.us>
wrote:

That’s simply not true. It’s a matter of what you choose to value, and it’s
> not your place to tell other people what they ought to value.
>

As Huxley said, thank you for proving that there’s no such thing as
in-utterable nonsense.

I asked  EM a question. The participation suggested willingness to answer
it. I proposed a poll on a particular question. They have a
freedom-of-speech right to refuse to answer my question & make a different
poll with a different topic.

What anyone values is their business, but yes, I can tell them that if they
change the topic & purpose of the poll, then they cancel the poll that this
was.

They “ought to” do whatever they want, including canceling the poll that
people presumably weren’t participating in, if they so choose.

Michael G. had already demonstrated a lot about himself with his
hilariously contorted effort to defend FairVote’s well-known & widely
recognized falsehoods.

Alright :-) I’ve run out of patience. This waste of time could go on
forever. When I proposed this (or is it now “that”?) poll, I had no idea
how hard it was going to be to get an answer to the poll’s question, or for
(at least the loudest) people here to make any progress on a project.
I was hoping for an answer before the November election, hbut that now
looks unlikely.

Optimistically assuming that it might be possible, it would take much too
long…be much too time-consuming.

Change the poll to whatever you want, or maybe don’t d.

I don’t have time for this.

The other thing is that it’s now evident that if I, when quoting the poll’s
results (if we pretend that there would be any before November), claimed
that the current EM members (collectively) are people whose recommendations
are valuable & should be listened-to, then I’d be a liar.

Joe was right: This has been a pure farce.

Go for it, I guess…or not.

…& no, I’m not quitting EM, but only because its sometimes read by people
who write papers in academic journals, where a few of my proposals here
have been announced.

… making it a good place to post proposals. I…just in case I again post a
proposal.

But, while keeping my membership, I won’t be visiting this forum, where the
loud frequent posers can hardly be considered worth listening to. I’ll
look-up how to turn off posting-announcements.


Your conceit is as astonishing as your decision to put a period at the end
> of your signature is confusing.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 4:08 PM Richard Lung <voting at ukscientists.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Pleased don't tell me what I am implyng by the word "truth". There is
>> such a thing as right and wrong, even in voting methods.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Lung.
>>
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