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I mean ranked choice is kind of nerd shit (it doesn't necessarily fix everything magically) but the fact it makes freaks like this mad is funny
Wonks pretend it's a silver bullet when it is not, but it's still a wildly superior and more democratic method than our current one.
100%. 
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Did Mamdani cause this? Lol
And possibly they got reminded of Alaska
Someone should take this kids lunch money
Lol 
more municipalities had ranked choice voting back during the high water mark of sewer socialism in US municipal governance. there's a citations needed episode about it. the number of openly socialist city councils and whatnot sent capital into a panic and model legal language was developed to start pushing on cities to ban it alongside a big campaign to equate it with putting people of color into elected office, as there were non-white socialists getting onto city councils.
this, embarassingly, worked like a charm and rolled back ranked choice nearly everywhere.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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