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Mario Rodríquez

@bigrabbit694186 · Jan 12, 2026 12:06 pm

CMV: Sports should never be decided by subjective Judges

Most sports are relatively objective. In soccer, the team with the most goals wins, same in hockey, basketball, etc.. The fastest runner wins the marathon, the most accurate shooter wins bow&arrow. You get the idea. Yes, there might still be refs that make wrong decisions along the way that influence the outcome, but the general score doesn’t depend on a panel of judges.
However, one thing that irks me are sports that get decided by judges. Here are a few examples:
1.) Ski Jumping: Besides general length of the jump, they get points based on how "nice" the jump looked. Yes, there is a panel and yes they delete the highest and lowest rating, but ultimately a good component of the overall score is based on the subjective score of these judges. It can happen that someone jumped further but ultimately looses to someone who jumped shorter.
2.) Figure skating: Yes, overall there are certain elements are more objective, but again, the final score comes down to subjective opinions.
You get the idea, but there are many more examples, like diving, boxing, some disciplines of snowboarding, surfing, etc.
We already have a name for these things, they are called art. There is nothing wrong with

Luz Lozano

@browngorilla160747 · Jan 12, 2026 12:55 am

CMV: A few swing districts in the US hold the outsized power to upend geopolitics/economics, and that is a systemic risk

US elections are typically polarized, and only a few swing states matter - yes we know that. But even within those states, many localities or districts vote on familiar lines and don’t affect the outcome of that swing state. It is truly a few districts that end up deciding the fate of USA and arguably the world (as 2025 is evidence enough)
This is an extremely high concentration of power in hands of a few (say hundred of thousands to a few million at most), which makes it a significant *systemic risk*. Yet global agencies don’t talk about it (e.g. https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2025.pdf)
Add social media propaganda, and AI driven algorithms, and it feels it’s disturbingly easy to target disinformation at this narrow group and shift outcomes that affect populations far beyond them.
It’s a pretty broken system.
A parliamentary style setup definitely would have given a more balanced power to population.
Edit: a lot of downvotes! Looks like the average Joe really feels nationalistic about their electoral system and doesn’t want to hear anything bad about it.
Edit 2: a lot of answers are trying this CMV with a theoretical approach that basically a region is fre