These folks have a good breakdown of RCV’s flaws. https://www.equal.vote/rcv_v_star

A lot of it boils down to how RCV is just a series of First Past the Post elections on the same ballot. This means that it can never really rise above FPtP.

Fun fact that the site I provided gets wrong, RCV isn’t actually 150 years old, it’s actually a bit older. The Marquis de Condorcet actually came up with the idea in the 1790s, but abandoned it because of its flaws.

If you want some unrelated reading, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Condorcet The guy was based as fuck.

Here’s a direct quote from one of his more influential works, “On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship”

The rights of men stem exclusively from the fact that they are sentient beings, capable of acquiring moral ideas and of reasoning upon them. Since women have the same qualities, they necessarily also have the same rights. Either no member of the human race has any true rights, or else they all have the same ones; and anyone who votes against the rights of another, whatever his religion, colour or sex, automatically forfeits his own.

That was 1790.

Sadly, the political party that was backing him fell out of power and the replacements had him arrested, and possibly killed.

This was his final work http://files.libertyfund.org/files/1669/Condorcet_0878_EBk_v6.0.pdf

That is the fastest way to turn a blue state red.

Split the vote so that the minority Republican vote can win. Because there are more registered Republicans in California than in Texas.

No, the actual answer is to change the voting system to a Cardinal system, so that there are no such things as Spoiler party’s or split votes.

Approval or STAR are the answer. Either would enable third parties to exist and thrive.

As a note RCV is not a Cardinal system, and still has the Spoiler Effect. People lie about it saying it’s the fix for all problems, but it’s actually worse than what we have (there are parts that are better, but more parts that are far worse)

Is blue sky federated? I thought it was another closed garden. If slightly more open than Twitter.

Ethanol is incredibly inefficient as a fuel source.

If not for the massive subsidies it would not exist.

Still, ethanol is a better fuel additive than lead. (Both reduce knocking)

Still, the far better use is to grow food.

Mindustry is much closer to the tower defense side of it.

Or maybe the RTS side.

There are even attack modes, where you build up an army to take on a fixed emplacement of enemy units.

The true captains of industry do want this. chaos is how they transfer wealth from the poor to themselves.

In a depression, the money doesn’t vanish, it goes into the pockets of the super rich.

That’s actually the plan.

Bankrupt the government and sell it off for parts.

Technically it’s the other way around. The size of the electoral college is determined by the size of the House plus the Senate.

Now, the House was meant to increase in size as the population increased.

Now, since the mechanism for that increase wasn’t spelled out in the constitution, there were heated arguments every 10 years over the new maps, but it came to a head in 1921.

Long story short, the permanent apportionment act of 1929 set the size of the House at 435 members. We’ve added two states since then, and the US population has tripped. But still it’s 435.

Repealing that one law would fix several problems.

Fun fact, there’s a 2008 law that specifically forces the president to give Israel all the best military hardware.

It was passed by W on his way out the door, and due to the Democratic party being compromised as hell, there’s never been enough votes to get rid of it, and any time the president might want to hold things back, they get sued under that law.

No, it won’t change the minds of his base.

But there are people he wouldn’t consider his base, that also tend to vote conservative, who were actually offended by some of those jokes. And then realized that hey, Trump and company are white nationalists, and that means that no minority will be safe.

It’s a tiny minority of Trump supporters, but as close as this election could be, that’s more than enough.

Now, Trump is planning on stealing the election anyway. Via disrupting or delaying certification of votes past December 11th, Which then means that there will be incomplete slates of electors, which means the election goes to the House, and each State gets one vote instead of the house itself voting.

They’re going to try to use Section three of the 20th amendment.

If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President-elect shall have died, the Vice President-elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President-elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President-elect nor a Vice President-elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

Fun times to live in…

That was an unsigned non-binding opinion. And the current court will jump on it in a heartbeat.

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That one came out of left field.

Trump was taking a premature victory lap, and hires a comedian to warm up the warm up the crowd, and the proceeded exactly like Trump wanted.

And then everyone suddenly wakes up and says wait, these hate spewing assholes are actually hate spewing assholes.

All because one comedian didn’t use the code words.

The definition is that Tesla is shit.

They’re selling a spotty lane assist as Self Driving when it is not.

Other companies are selling actual self-driving cars, (even if those companies are fucking up as well) but Tesla is nowhere near that level of autonomy. All because Musk cheaped out on the sensor package.

Teslas will never be self-driving, because they literally cannot detect the road and obstacles with just their little camera setup.

They should not be allowed to call it self-driving, or autopilot, or anything else that implies that you can take your hands off the steering wheel.

but you need to supervise it because you are both responsible and because it’s not perfect

Not self-driving then. Words have meanings.

Then it’s not “Full self driving”. It’s at best lane assistance, but I wouldn’t trust that either.

Elon needs to shut the fuck up about self driving and maybe issue a full recall, because he’s going to get people killed.

Proportional representation would be good. But the true fix is to change the voting system to one that supports multiple parties.

The easiest system that does this is Approval. The slightly better option is called STAR.

Both systems have proportional versions, but single winner is honestly good enough.

But he’s also a fat bastard who never exercises. His diet is shit, and yet he might still live for another decade.

Trump would get a fine, if he hadn’t violated the judge’s orders and been held in contempt multiple times.

Trump burned through all of his rich white guy privileges with judge Merchan. Delaying the sentencing until after the election was a way to make sure that Trump gets prison time.

See, if the sentencing had been before the election, then the Supreme Court could have held an emergency session to keep him out of prison.

They will not hold an emergency session for a two time loser.

The main worry now is if Trump flees the country.

Pop quiz, what was the reason for Trump’s first impeachment?

Halting money that Congress had allocated to a foreign country.

Biden and Harris have been calling for restraint and cease fires non-stop since the beginning here.

Give Harris Congress, and the she can put a stop to this shit.

Vote for Trump, or convince people to not support Harris, and the genocide will be accelerated.

That’s it. Those are the choices.

And if Harris wins the presidency but loses Congress. Well, that’s still better than Trump. At that point we’d be in for two to four years of nothing getting done either way.

Need I remind you that a speaker at yesterday’s Madison Square Garden Trump rally claimed that “Palestinians are taught to kill us at two years old”.