Yes, the scale they used was just a bit counter-intuitive.
It wasn’t a rank from most to least corrupt, it was more of a “corruption score”, where higher numbers means more corrupt. But they ordered it like ranks, so #1 (least corrupt) would be first.
Then I think “Babymetal fans” would’ve been a better descriptor than “metal heads”, lol
other cultures that use the symbol in completely different ways gets shafted out of their culture/religion/whatever. Now it’s going to be metal heads…
Based on the description, the gesture described has nothing to do with metal heads…
You’re right, they’ve ordered it that way, but they’ve specified that their scale is…
[scored] on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean)
So you weren’t wrong about what you read.
But without that context there, being “in the top ten of a corruption ranking” would usually mean the country is very corrupt, haha
Language changes people.
In what ways are people changed by language?
As a non american we 100% see america as 3rd world.
Speak for yourself. I see it as fucked up, but definitely not third-world…
The US usually ranks 25-50 on world corruption indices. Third world countries rank 100-200.
That would mean that the US is more corrupt. I’m pretty sure that’s not what you meant, so I’m just adding this to help.
I don’t know if it’s a language thing or a regional thing (or just a regular mistake), but “rank” usually means that 1 is the most, 2 is the second most, and 100th would be less corrupt than 1, 2, etc.
I don’t think that’s anywhere on the political spectrum
always will be a leftist platform,
I don’t think that’s the case.
Being decentralized means that anybody could create a right-wing instance, and it may be able to federate with enough other instances that it becomes big. If it gets enough users, it could make Lemmy more right-leaning overall.
It’s not inevitable that Lemmy stays left-wing. But a centralized platform like Twitter or “whatever garbage Trump made” can be curated to be right-wing only. Just as lemmy.ml and perhaps some other instances may be curated to be left-wing only.
Wasn’t it also built by Marxist-Lennists?
If their vote matters (based on previous elections), then yes.
They’re either okay with it, or they’re ignorant.
Because they’re okay with convicted felon Donald Trump becoming the president of the USA again, lol
Or are they helping both?
Actually, I’ve read that voter apathy tends to help Right-wing parties. If that’s true and accurate, then independents who don’t vote for either would be helping Trump.
I’m talking about voting.
Yes, you’re right. There is more they can do to influence things. But on election day, only the vote truly counts.
You don’t know for a fact that it is a fuck up.
You (should) know for a fact that, if you consider Trump getting elected to be a fuck up, that not voting for Biden would be a fuck up because it’d be helping Trump win.
I agree with you there.
I’m also (obviously) against the genocide.
I just think Trump would be worse in every way, including regarding the genocide (and other potential future genocides and/or wars).
There’s a lot of malware that just chills in the background and hides itself well (e.g., auto-shuts down whenever task manager is opened), and does little to impact you aside from using some of your system’s resources.
Think being part of a botnet used for DDOS attacks, or a cryptominer that runs whenever you aren’t using much of your hardware’s capabilities.
No, because the voters still have a choice to vote.
There’s no guarantee that swapping candidates would get them more net votes.
There’s a guarantee that Democrat or flip voters who abstain from voting for Biden are helping Trump win.
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