@Rob
@lemmy.worldWhat’s the general consensus on Arch? I really like the UX, although I stuck to Firefox on mobile.
It might just be your vote that flips a city or county
It’s always your vote that flipped the seat; everyone who voted after you just showed up as backup.
Also has a secondary interpretation: out of the many countries in the world, one of them. Putting the US on equal footing with the nations of old — despite not having a king with a divine right to sovereignty.
I like this interpretation because anno 2024 it also counterweights US exceptionalism.
Imagine you have a book that’s written in Korean. If you gave it to me and asked me to read it out loud, I wouldn’t be able to make sense out of it. If you gave it to a Korean person, however, they could read it perfectly fine.
The book itself hasn’t changed — just the person reading the book. And that person has a different set of skills (or instructions, if you will).