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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

NO DEMOCRACY ALLOWED, YOU PLEBS

Sincerely,
Your Plutocrats

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what constitutional basis do they have to do this? Elections are explicitly run by the states and there's nothing about RCV or any voting system that prevents a fair election.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

There working on the constitutional basis of wanting to become a dictatorship, can't have people voting against you now can you?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 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] 19 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 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] 7 points 7 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] 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

These guys are goading us into imposing street justice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

History repeats

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Can someone please explain.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

Ranked Choice voting is how you have a democracy. It avoids situations like the US has where two very similar parties run against each other, and there's no way to elect a progressive party.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 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] 11 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 117 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Knew this was coming.

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 15 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] 12 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 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] 44 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 51 points 19 hours ago

You serve us you lame bitches.