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Post #1854403

2026-05-01 04:41 UTC

The US has basically abandoned democracy and replaced it with some kind of weird game involving fractals.

Replies (9)

  • @rbmath@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-01 04:45

    @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz fractals are cool at least

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  • @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-01 04:50

    @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz Looking forward to the midterm election results coming down to which judges, ruling on district boundary changes, accept or reject the Axiom of Choice.

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  • @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz silver lining: fractals!

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  • @bsdphk@fosstodon.org 2026-05-01 06:10

    @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz I dont think you can call a country with a one-party system cosplaying as a two-party system for "a democracy" ?

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  • @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz The goal, though, is noble: Using Banach-Tarski, produce two Earths, one red, one blue.

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  • @glocq@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-01 08:50

    @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz European here, not 100% sure what you're referring to. Is this about gerrymandering? Edit: Just saw there are news related to that, so it seems so :( good luck to you all Americans attached to democracy

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  • @rowat_c@mastodon.social 2026-05-01 09:40

    @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz is there a page maintaining the total length of US electoral district's boundaries over time (measured, for the avoidance of confusion, with a single stick of constant length)?

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  • @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz Why shouldn't the voters themselves decide which electoral district they want to belong to?

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  • @polnasam@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-01 13:45

    @dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz Maybe they are then already along the right path. We would just need somebody convincing them instead to play at ... https://fraktalcanna.com/ #belatedwarningdadjoke

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