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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.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English2·18 days agoif 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.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English4·19 days agoPeople are stupid. They think RCV is “too confusing”
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companiesEnglish3·20 days agoI 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.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companiesEnglish155·20 days agoLanguage 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.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English1·20 days agoYea 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. 😅
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English2·20 days agoI’m gen z and never heard the words “skibidi” “rizz” irl
I did hear “no cap” and “Alpha”/“Beta” tho
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English23·20 days agoPre-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.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English2·20 days agoWhich 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.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English3·20 days agoI 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.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English101·20 days agoI 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)
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English8·20 days agoPeople 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 😏
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English3·21 days agoI 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.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English7·21 days agoSadly, 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.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English11·21 days agoit 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)
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English42·21 days agoSTAR? 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.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English51·21 days agoNot sure. Ancient societies also used FPTP and they are still considered by some Scholars/Historians as “democracy” 🤷♂️
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.