When I went to college the dot was used for the dot product (scalar product) of two vectors while the cross was used for the cross product (vector product) of two vectors.

Since in this case numbers (read: one-dimensional vectors) are multiplied, the dot product is used, which should be denoted by a dot.

(But really, if I were to write a formula in Latex I would just use the * symbol, too.)

And then they would have removed them later. Just like all the statues of Adolf Hitler, which no longer exist.

We only learn about the ones with defects, because they are the most interesting. Most people in history were fine.

One historic figure who had no known defects: Alan Turing

If left wing policies were truly more popular, why didn’t the Democrats win? The voters didn’t get Bernie, so if you can’t get your ideal option, you instead take the worse of the two remaining ones? Even if voters were only voting for damage reduction, they’d still vote Democrat in that case.

But the Democrats didn’t win. The voters don’t want damage reduction. The voters want damage.

If the vast majority of Americans believed the Democrats to be less evil, the Democrats would have 90% of the vote. If that were the case, the Republicans would move ever further left, perhaps even overtaking the Democrats, until they get a chance at winning again.

The reason the parties are right wing is because the voters are right wing.

That’s why we need a communist revolution where everyone will be a happy little comrade

The reason that people don’t vote Democrats is the same reason that people won’t join your revolution.

If you found enough people to support a revolution, that’d mean you have enough people to change the system by simple voting.

Acting as if the terms left and right aren’t completely arbitrary.

Anti-migration is just a facade they use to hide their racism

How is that contrary to my point? Many people are anti migration and so an anti migration party was founded.

What the reason for being anti migration is, be it racism or something else, doesn’t matter here.

how many parties support [stopping weapons trading with Israel]

That’s why I explicitly said “popular” topic.

The reason anti-migration found it’s way back into the Bundestag is because the voters care about migration policies.

The reason Israel arms deals aren’t talked about much is because most voters don’t give a fuck about what happens in the middle east.

Our leaders are a mix of three different parties because not all German people have the same opinions.

Yes, our leaders are a compromise between left-leaning voters and right-leaning voters. Respecting more people’s votes makes the country more democratic, not less.

If your question is about whether the people have free choice or if they can only choose one of the six parties currently in the Bundestag, the answer is the former. Little story:

Under Merkel, all German parties moved to be more migrant-friendly, until even Merkel’s conservative party (the most right wing party at the time) was largely okay with migration.

However, there are many anti-migration voters in Germany. So what did they do? Did they say “oh, we only have these five options, guess there’s no way I can vote against migration”? No, they founded a new party, the AfD, to be anti migration. This party quickly got into the Bundestag and rose to be a major party now.

Upon seeing the popularity of anti-migration policies, some of the other parties now shift torwards more anti-migration policies, too.

The German people have plenty of choice, and if a popular topic is ever not represented by the popular parties, it can quickly be made represented again.

(The reason I was assuming USA btw, is because another comment mentioned America. Also the USA is an easy example of a less democratic democracy.)

How is the German democracy hardly democratic?

Because abolishing democracy is not an available option? Is that what a system needs to be considered democratic?

I understand why USAmericans think of their system as hardly democratic, but that’s not the only type of democracy that exists.

Those powerful individuals, however, were chosen by the citizens. (Assuming the system you’re talking about is a democracy.)

Watch me criticize current Israeli behaviour as well as past German behaviour (as a German)