• underwire212@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    They’re going to try and pump out shit like this to manufacture the idea that a peaceful revolution is possible with voting lmao.

    Let’s ride this wave of class solidarity. I only eat two things: cheesecake and rich people. I’m hungry, and I’m all out of cheesecake.

  • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    If progressives want to actually play with the big kids (GOP and DNC) then they need to quickly start to promote a truly left leaning fire brand candidate. Someone that will fire up not just the base but a large portion of the American voting public.

    The murder of a insurance CEO shows that there are common frustrations within the population at large and I feel that if there was one person that would address this in a way that is exciting and motivating they would do well. Bernie is an example of this but he can’t be the only one.

    Someone that is smart and has experience in debating the bullshit makers in the media and on podcasts. Someone that is willing to take the abuse and name calling that will come from the establishment and use it to their advantage. I genuinely believe that they would a least push the DNC away from the center - but it is something that needs to be started in the next 12 months to work.

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      I started to read the pdf but stopped. Just a little bit in and it struck me as complicated, and that’s as someone familiar with ranked choice voting, proportional voting, etc. Not that complexity is inherently bad, but when it comes to group decision making, elegant solutions will encourage many people to participate. Complicated solutions will favor people with lots of time or money.

      I also don’t think weighing systems so that certain people have more of a say than others is ideal. It’s true that experts know more than lay people. But there are challenges in identifying and labeling experts, deciding what being an expert in a given subject should mean in terms of more power/influence, and in doing so creating mechanisms for gaming the system.

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    1 month ago

    So, based on the article, there’s only one way to defeat them using the electoral system and the existing parties.

    In other words, there’s more than one way.