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DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting (ivn.us)

Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it’s not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond....

nulluser OP ,

But they’re not introducing nuance, they’re invoking FUD.

Their arguments aren’t, “RCV is way better than FPTP, and it’s great that communities are adopting it, but I happen to like this similar system even better. Let me tell you about it.” I would love to see discussions like that.

Instead, their arguments are “RCV bad. [Other system] good.”. Their arguments play right into the hands of those that want to delay/avoid change so that they can continue to manipulate elections.

nulluser ,

For communities that do this, the goal is to…

A) Drive out the homeless so they go to other, more charitable communities, and become someone else’s problem, and then…

B) Point out the higher rate of homelessness (and higher taxes necessary to deal with it) in those other communities and say, “Look how awful those communities are!”

nulluser ,

I’ll believe it when Ze Frank does a True Facts video on it.

nulluser ,

It takes six months from “we need a new person with these skills” to “ok here’s the job posting,” ??? And if in those six months the required skills change a bit, you can’t just tweak the job posting and instead have to start over from scratch???

Your company has serious issues that are wasting everyone’s time and need to be addressed. Stop making excuses for wasting people’s time.

On Politics: Brad Lander's scheming shows Eric Adams' weakness (archive.ph)

Lander offers less potential excitement than Myrie, a Brooklyn state senator who is just 37 and could make history as the city’s first Afro-Latino mayor. He might be less of a political brawler than Stringer, who has survived several tough primaries and can pull plenty of votes from his old West Side base. Ranked-choice voting...

nulluser OP , (edited )

RCV has the momentum and is infinitely superior to what we have now. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of much better.

Edit: And honestly, I’d be happy if a community chose one of the other options. I don’t care. They’re all better than what we have and we should be applauding every city, county and state that switches to any of them.

Trying to demonize one because you don’t think it’s perfect is just muddying the waters and subjecting us to decades of more of the shit sandwich we have now while we debate which alternative is flawless.

nulluser OP ,

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I am convinced that was Russia!s proof-of-concept for what would become their information warfare against democracy.

I find myself increasingly having to consider this possibility when I interact with people online. Are they well meaning, or are they actively trying to sabotage progress. Maybe they’re well meaning but have succumbed to the arguments of others actively trying to sabotage progress. 🤷

JD Spain, Sr. wins Democratic nomination for Arlington County Board (wamu.org)

Spain’s victory came after the county’s second-ever ranked choice voting election. On their ballots, Arlington voters ranked three of the five candidates. In the first round of the tabulation, the person who got the least number of votes — in this case, Julie Farnam — was dropped, and her supporters’ votes allocated to...

State judge upholds most fines against group seeking repeal of Alaska ranked choice voting - Chilkat Valley News (www.chilkatvalleynews.com)

An Anchorage Superior Court judge has ruled that opponents of Alaska’s ranked choice election system violated state campaign finance laws in their effort to gather signatures for a repeal ballot measure....

nulluser OP ,

It shows that there is bipartisan support for it among rank and file voters. It’s really just the politicians that know that they wouldn’t stand a chance of winning under such a system that are against it.

Group tied to Colorado election overhaul drops $1 million in last-minute primary spending (www.denverpost.com)

The group is backed by Kent Thiry, the Denver-based former CEO of the dialysis giant DaVita who’s supporting a ballot measure to overhaul the state’s election process. In a statement to The Denver Post on Saturday morning, Thiry wrote that it was “time for many of us to stand up for the majority in the middle. We are...

nulluser ,

Sadly, there are people that would completely agree with this statement, and not detect an ounce of sarcasm.

nulluser ,

A finger waggle, perhaps.

nulluser ,

Yeah, but… Where is that? /s

nulluser ,

In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.

Ummmmm, that’s the photographer that did that. 🙄

nulluser ,

It strongly reads to me like the writer is trying to make something mystical/mysterious out of a completely mundane “feature” of mirrors.

nulluser ,

It’s right there in the teaser on on this page.

nulluser ,

I hate to say it, but I’m inclined to think that the Russian government may simply block access to Firefox (and the Firefox addons site).

Probably true, but that’s not justification for Mozilla to save them the trouble by doing it for them.

nulluser ,

Link is to the second page of the article. I thought it was odd how it kept saying “Smith said” without identifying who Smith is.

Proper link: arstechnica.com/…/microsoft-in-damage-control-mod…

nulluser ,

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with reporting the facts that you do have when you have them and are confident of your sources.

Acknowledging remaining open questions that you don’t have answers to yet, is a bonus.

A perfect example of reporting before the fog of war clears would be reporting completely erroneous information as factual. So unless you’re suggesting that a Ukrainian fighter jet did NOT in fact strike a target inside Russia, then this isn’t the “perfect example” you’re looking for.

nulluser ,

How Lewis cleans up this mammoth of a mess that he has created for himself remains to be seen. Can he do it? One wonders what Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Post, who must be growing quite tired of constantly seeing his newspaper ensnared in controversy, thinks of the situation. Inside the newsroom, though, the sentiment is plain as day.

“He’s really losing the newsroom on a large scale,” a staffer said, sizing up the state of affairs. “People don’t trust him, don’t believe he has the same values and ethics as our journalists and there are major concerns of how far he would go to censor or shut down coverage.”

nulluser ,

My first thought in situations like this is that maybe he secretly wishes he were a she. It’s true just often enough that I think it’s worth considering as an option.

And honestly, I don’t care if it’s true or not. If, whenever a public figure publicly tries to humiliate or demonize some minority group, public discourse immediately starts talking about whether said public figure secretly is, or wants to be, a member of said minority group, then it serves as a deterrent for others wanting to humiliate or demonize minority groups.

A) You’re in the closet and don’t want people to know? Then don’t ridicule people who came out of the closet.

B) Oh, you’re not in the closet and don’t want people to think you are? What a coincidence. Also, don’t ridicule people who came out of the closet.

nulluser ,

That attitude/idea can lead to blaming the marginalized group for their own victimhood.

Probably a dumb question, but how so?

I just see it as beating the bully with their own stick. I can’t imagine how anyone would see that and conclude that the bully’s victims are somehow to blame. Probably lack of imagination on my part, so help me out.

nulluser ,

Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks.

Bannon put on notice that prison sentence may be 'the least of his problems' (www.rawstory.com)

Steve Bannon’s trial tribulations may have only just begun as he readies himself for prison and the district attorney who secured former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction prepares to take him to court in New York, a former federal prosecutor said Thursday night....

nulluser ,

Looks like a prime example of Godwin’s Law

nulluser ,

xkcd.com/1053/

nulluser ,

So, a byproduct of this process is, potentially, greenhouse gases? Yay.

nulluser ,

How would they know now? It’s the same answer. Stop being a dick.

nulluser ,

As I started reading the last sentence, I thought it was going to say, “This effect also works on dogs.”

nulluser ,

… that made any such interference a criminal offence. If the conduct continued, he added, “my office will not hesitate to act”.

If they’ve already committed a crime… then what’s with the fucking warning? This is why the rich and powerful think that they’re above the law. It’s because, apparently, they are.

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