I agree. The real story here is half of Gen Z felt like they had to lie. When I was growing up it was perfectly acceptable, even to my parents, to say I don’t want to talk about it. It’s a secret ballot for a reason.

He wants SCOTUS to give him a gift in a state that matters. Virginia was nice but not necessary for Democrats.

Obama and Biden have actually had the FBI working on right wing extremism. It’s just kind of hard when there’s effective immunity for it’s leadership. And yeah, we might have to fight to change that and fix things. But you don’t just do that for shits and giggles. It’s not fucking Hollywood. You’re not the main character. We don’t have plot armor. So we work the problem in the best way we can until we’re forced into that stuff.

We should have stopped when the alternative was McCain or Romney. We can have a chance to stop again when the alternative is similarly more sane than Trump.

I see what you’re trying to do drag but it just doesn’t track.

America voting for the lesser evil since 1792.

It’s not the time to stop now. But I better see all of you on the streets with signs on November 6th.

Proportional representation absolutely supports multiple parties. By definition it gets rid of FPTP in congressional elections because it seats representatives by proportion of votes gained.

Also STAR is really just FPTP with the primary and general happening at the same time. You give a rating from 0 to 5 to each candidate and the two with the highest rating face off in a classic FPTP election.

In RCV they drop the lowest and go to the next round until someone gets enough votes.

STAR is approved and backed by the major parties because it would still act the same way. The fear of the other party means even if you vote 5 stars on the third party you’re going to vote 4 stars on the main party, lest they not have enough points in the run off. This creates a bar to third parties that’s at the same level as FPTP, the main party candidate for that dude if the electorate must be a complete deal breaker. This is because STAR gifts the main candidate extra points from people who would really rather see the third party elected and only want the main candidate as a back up. But they still get those 4 points in the first round.

So strategic voting, without fear of the other side, in STAR turns out to be rating everyone zero except your choice. Which is just back to FPTP.

RCV allows you to rank your preferred candidate first and your backup second without fear this will somehow help the other side or give undue weight to your first candidate.

That’s because you’ve already decided what answer you want.

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I’ll bite. The US is democracy version 1.5. One of the known issues of democracies before version 2 is that when a major party is falling apart it can seem like a single party system. However this is usually temporary.

Of course the recommended action is to upgrade to at least version 2 with proportional representation.

This might actually bring some of those people to vote for Harris. There’s a difference between high minded moralism and watching the worst case scenario happen. Like knowing something intellectually, and actually seeing it.

You’re not supposed to root for the hardship. But oh, what am I saying, he obviously doesn’t mean himself. He’s a special pig, more equal than the rest.

That’s an interesting way to look at it. I’m not sure they need a single city though, the analogy kind of falls apart if you take it too far. But the whole restricting voting rights to white Christian men married with kids could certainly be described as a new form of colonialism. It’s essentially apartheid, and that was an outgrowth of colonialism.

We need to be turning to non profit, reporter run, news organizations.

Everyone calls it Reagan, but he just did what Republicans were saying they wanted for decades already. In fact I’m not sure where the Republicans could fall back to ideologically. Ever since the Dixie Flip they’ve pretty much built their entire party around racism and religious extremism.

Things have definitely changed and there’s republicans agitating to just blow it all up and start over. The old party wasn’t great but it was at least loyal.

That man is politically immortal. There is nothing he can do to “commit political suicide”.

It’s a real Humvee.

Unless those kits include switching the frame out, that’s a real Humvee. You can see the frame and suspension.

BG3 reminded us of what’s possible in game story telling. What letting the marketing team run the shop has done to the industry.