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H.R.3040 - To prohibit the use of ranked choice voting in elections for Federal office. (www.congress.gov)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Where are all of y'all dumb motherfuckers that were going on about how the two party system is rigged and you wanted RCV, and therefore you couldn't vote for Democrats because they weren't adequately enthused about the idea

Where the fuck are you bitches

[+] [email protected] -10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Incorrect allotment of blame, for the furtherance of an agenda.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

My only agenda here is reminding y'all that all of this could have been avoided. I'm sorry there wasn't a better party than the Dems. I truly am. But what the fuck are you gonna do about it? How does abstaining from voting further that goal?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

You can’t get change by working with democrats, the democrats have bent over backwards to prove they do not outright oppose the direction, only the speed we got here.

Their refusal to do their ‘job’ shows that their actual cause is not in governance but the allocation of power. In order to put up a resistance to republicans the democrats must first be dismantled. I told you people that i was going to hold my nose and vote blue, and it’s not that the democrats failed to get the vote.

It’s because they failed to get the vote because they had no interest in running on a coherent platform. It’s because after losing the confidence of their own base, they decided that it was progressive issues they must throw off as ballast. It’s because they appeal to the weak republicans voter over their own base. Its because they are actively undermining progressive proposals put forth by local progressive politicians. It’s because they parrot the ‘mandate of the people’ lie/republicans talking point to justify doing nothing. It’s because they attack individuals who put truth to power and try to do something.

So fucking no. You people do not get another ‘vote blue no matter who’ from me. Democrats are the opposition party to progressive policy. Its become crystal clear to me that if i want progressive policy, democrats must first be brought to heel, or destroyed. Only then can republicans be stopped.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago (1 children)

So fucking no. You people do not get another ‘vote blue no matter who’ from me. Democrats are the opposition party to progressive policy. Its become crystal clear to me that if i want progressive policy, democrats must first be brought to heel, or destroyed. Only then can republicans be stopped.

You do this by hijacking the party the way Trump hijacked the GOP. Trying to start you own thing from scratch is so obviously doomed failure that you and all your ideas will remain irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

Nope, because the same pressures that caused that, are the same pressures that caused the democrats to be an issue in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

They're not. Capital might have found (or thought they found) a way to leverage and control Trump, but they didn't want him in the first place. He took over anyways. The reasons for this many, but it shows that the path is available, even if difficult. The idea that you're going to break the two party system from outside of it it without a total societal collapse at this point is pure fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

hr 42069 - "take away everything good and make sadness mandatory"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If the Democrats cant completely unify against this then I can confidently say they're not worth supporting at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

It's amazing that you haven't come to this conclusion already, honestly

They sent trump a fucking letter after the 40% approval rating Shit, they belong against the wall with the nazis

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

These guys are goading us into imposing street justice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

History repeats

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Can someone please explain.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago

Ranked choice voting allows you to rank each candidate in order of preference. This voting style is picking up steam in local and state level community initiatives, and is likely to allow the US to break from a 2 party system.

Change is scary to Republicans so they are trying to vilify it and ban it for federal elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

And here it is, the dashing of hopes. It was nice while it lasted.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 12 hours ago

Fuck this

[–] [email protected] 100 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Knew this was coming.

Expect a bunch of democrats to jump on board to save their jobs.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They'll check and see how many votes the repubs need first, and put up that many plus a few for safety. The rest of the dems get to pretend to be opposed. But whatever the repubs need from dems, they will get.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

That's exactly the backdoor deals they are doing, they only publicly hate each other, but behind the scenes they support the same agenda. Once in a while they allow one of their agenda to be pushed or blocked taking turns doing it, and this designed to gauge support for said bills from voters.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 14 hours ago

"Don't worry, we'll reverse our decision later. Yeah. You just need to wait!"

[–] [email protected] 44 points 14 hours ago

You serve us you lame bitches.