Assembly Bill 2164 authored by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) would have prohibited California’s governor from recognizing a request for extradition of a person related to their providing a legally protected healthcare activity in the Golden State to transgender individuals, or if they provide reproductive services. It provided certain exemptions, such as an extradition required by federal law.

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[–] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Voting third party without some form of Rank Choice is literally pointless. This is basic game theory stuff. It's why the establishment on both sides are against Rank Choice.

Nothing will change without Rank Choice voting. Even if you succeed in displacing one of the two parties with a third, that third party just becomes one of the two parties and nothing changes.

I'm not saying to not vote third party. I'm saying get your local election to switch to Rank Choice and THEN vote third party.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Voting third party is never pointless, your claim is false.

    For example, third parties fought for weed legalization for years. My state was one of the first to legalize, which was through ballot signatures collected by Green, Libertarian, and Socialists; not a Democrat amongst them. Every election, third parties would get more and more votes, so now Ds support legalization. Without third party pressure, people would still be serving hard time, the status quo would not budge.

    BoTh PaRtIeS want your vote, to vote for a third party is to take a vote away from them. They make changes to their platform to get those voters.

    If voting for third parties is pointless, then voting is pointless. There's much more to elections than picking the winning side. It's not about winning, it's about using the political system to achieve your objective.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Voting Dems to protect people is equally pointless, or didn't you read the OP?

    You can't get Ranked Choice without breaking the duopoly first. You're literally advocating for people to hope the ghouls who currently have all the power can be persuaded to give up that power by asking them nicely. Pure delusion.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Voting Dems to protect people is equally pointless, or didn't you read the OP?

    I wouldn't say "equally". This is for sure a bad thing... but for every anti-trans thing Newsom does, any given Republican does two. And voting third party is functionally equivalent to not voting.

    Your first priority should be being organized enough to ensure safety for your trans friends, anyway. Second is voting in the primaries so that you have a better choice than Fascist vs Diet Fascist.

    After that, just be honest with yourself about the impact of your General Election vote. It's far less important, on average, than having a single conversation with your neighbors.

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