Vanguardism sure have worked great in the past, amirite?

If nazis win this time, there wont ever be a nuremberg, because the planet will go through rapid climate change and everyone is gonna be dead.

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I believe but don’t care. <— The US is around here

That’s only the democrats

The republicans don’t even believe it

Tbf there is a lot of money in propaganda. I don’t know how someone who grew up in some backwards-ass rural town/village in some hyper-conservative area in the deep south of the US is supposed to develop the critical thinking enough to look past fox news and actually do research. I’m not excusing them, but like, I understand why they don’t believe its happening.

if we’re unhappy with them now, then the answer should be secession

Problems is, seccession is illegal in the US, and attempting secede is practically impossible (US Military), unless the federal government intentionally allows it to, unlawfully, happen.

People are stupid. They think RCV is “too confusing”

I heard about some city (NYC??) that has public wifi access points with the terminal thing that acts like a touch screen computer for people to browse the internet. And people were allegedly watching porn on it, like in public on a busy street. So they disabled the touchscreen computer thing and only left the wifi access point on.

Language is so weird these days…

Everything is “app” nowaways

A .exe install on windows is “app”

A reddit account is “app”

Buying a phone plan and inserting a sim card into a phone is “activation” of a phone

Lol

Its a windows program or software

Reddit is not an “app”, its a platform.

You’re not “activating” your phone, your phone is already usable, all you did was purchase a voice/data plan and inserted a sim card. “Activation” is a apple internet lock thing, totally separate.

Yea these terms are quite loosely defined. I had the mental image of people around my age group in mind. Like around 2000 to 2005 birth year.

Don’t know any 13 year olds, who are I guess technically “Gen Z”. So I guess I should use the term “Post 2005 Kids” instead. 😅

I’m gen z and never heard the words “skibidi” “rizz” irl

I did hear “no cap” and “Alpha”/“Beta” tho

Pre-empts local laws preventing sub-divisions of the State (Cities, Towns) from enacting their own election system that would use “ranking” as a method of determining candidates winning or losing.

Renaming the system will not bypass the ban.

Which reminds me. Governor of NY didn’t even fucking sack Crooked Adams. That just tells all you need to know. Crooks covering for crooks. Now the crook in cheif drops the charges on Adams.

What a shitshow.

I don’t think we’ll ever have a “true” democracy.

Its like the concept of “utopia”, you can get closer and closer, but never actually reach it

Like an asymptote in mathematics.

I get why Gen alpha use “Ohio” to describe something bad now

God damn Skibidi Ohio polititians with no rizz, no cap fr fr, voters with brainrot smh

(sorry for the use of Gen alpha brainrot language)

People don’t vote in primaries enough.

AOC did it. Beat the corporate PoS. We can all do it.

And if they try to rig it, we do a little French-style direct action 😏

I just read about it. Apparantly, most voters preferred the republican Begich over other 2 candidates and Begich is the Condorcet winner, so I could see why they’d be upset at the result.

Sadly, some states, people voted against ranked-choice-voting in referendum. Seems lile people just hear a complex idea and want to shut it down because it challenged their simplistic worldview.

it wouldn’t need any constitutional changes

You need a lot of states to change their laws. Some states ban faithless electors unless the candidate they pledged for dies. So unless we’re yeeting the candidates off a building in order to stop fascism, you can’t change your electorsl votes.

Also, if you’re method of avoiding fascism is by relying on the electors to keep their promise, you’re ending up with disaster.

In the 1800 US presidential election, the system at the time was that 2 votes are cast by the electoral college, the one with most votes is the president and the with the second-most votes becomes president (stupid system, right?). Electors of the Jefferson-Burr ticket was supposed to have one of their electors vote for Jefferson, but not Burr, so that Jefferson has just 1 vote more than Burr, making Jefferson President and Burr vice-president.

But NONE of the electors did that. They all voted for both, which resulted in a tie, resulting in a contingent election. (They later added an amendment to make Pres and VP two separate vote counts, which we have today)

I don’t have faith in Electors to make good plans. Although Electors are handpicked hardcore supporters of a candidate, sometimes their fanaticism can make irrational decisions, including even ignoring instructions from the candidate they supposedly support. (For example: Some Sanders supporters did not vote Biden in the General election, even when Sanders endorsed Biden)

STAR? Sure.

Approval? Nah

Gonna copy paste my comment again:

I can see a bit of strategic voting happening.

Let me demonstrate:

For the sake of simplicity, let’s say we have 3 candidates, and no term limits:

Trump, Biden, Sanders

Biden and Sander voters dispise trump, their preference in RCV is (example):

Biden>Sanders>Trump: 30%
Sander>Biden>Trump: 25%
Trump>Sanders>Biden: 23%
Trump>Biden>Sanders: 22%

Okay, so lets say they all approve their top 2:

Biden: 77%
Sanders: 78%
Trump: 45%

Okay we have president Sanders! Congrats, right?

Well, now the trumpers who approved sanders are like: “Hey wait a minute, we made our daddy lose because we approved Sanders”

All the trumpers now have a meeting and decided that next election, they don’t approve Sanders or Biden as a strategic vote.

So now, Election 2 Results:

Biden: 55%
Sanders: 55%
Trump: 45%

Oh great, it’s a tie. The law says that the election have to be re-done to solve the tie:

Now this next election, all people who preferred Sanders first go to a Sanders supporter meeting and started saying: “Lets disapprove Biden so Bernie can win!”

Simultaneously, Biden voters will be like: “Lets disapprove Sanders so Biden can win!”

Next election results:

Trump: 45%
Biden: 30%
Sanders 25%

Congrats, we have a glorified FPTP and spoiler effect yet again!

Now, other election systems could also have strategic voting, but its less likely with, for example, RCV, since you can rank candidates.

STAR voting is also acceptable, but its also less heard of, and as far as I know, it hasn’t ever been done in a real-life election. I doubt that’ll get popular any time soon, might as well find another easier to implement Non-FPTP system to rally behind.