littlewonder @ littlewonder @lemmy.world

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I'm happy to inform you that there are Democrat-controlled states and localities that have successfully passed ranked-choice voting.

And there are states that have BANNED ranked-choice voting as well. I'll let you guess which party was behind those.

So does this change your stance on whether Democrats are doing anything to change first-past-the-post voting systems?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States

Do the work for third parties between elections. That's when the hard-fought progress is made toward rising platforms and ideas. Vote third party in primaries. Attend third party meetings and help organize. But don't make the work to spread new ideas and build other options even harder by allowing democracy to creep further backward and affect up to 35+ years of judicial decisions.

Where did that gap of the median 99%'s assets and the assets of the 1% come from? Could it have come from wages that could have been yours if excess profit was based on how much you contributed to the organization's productivity?

I read America's voice as Ralph Wigum. Which feels about right given our braindead approach to this war.

There's part of WW2 I didn't know about until I visited the Holocaust memorial/museum in DC--that Germany tried to deport the Jewish people first, which led to the US Congress voting against offering refuge to 20,000 Jewish children that could have been sent to the US. This is just one example of shit I wished I would have learned in school.

That action of denying asylum during WW2 came to mind immediately when I think about how poor our track record continues to stand when it comes to offering enough refuge to people blatantly (US Afghanistan exit), or via back-channels (Gaza), affected by our foreign policy choices.

The kind of people who vote for this are commonly older and all about self over community--which is to say, they don't give a fuck about the future. They care about squeezing the most out of the present for themselves before they die.

Yikes. That's toasty in March (89F for all my fellow people who can't remember metric temp conversion despite googling it all the time). And it's always SO HUMID too.

I lived there briefly once and I've never sweat so much in my life.

I have no idea how the home insurance industry has found it profitable to even keep it up this long.

Whoops, reinvented trains again.

Can you elaborate on the over-the-top self-belief humor?

CISA's director literally just testified to congress about China fucking with shit.

Also, I see Instagram reels as a competitor.

You've just answered a question I didn't realize I had.

And who gets to decide? And when the administration changes, who decides then?

Maybe your distant family member should've been raised with better sex education. Punishing all poor people isn't the answer.

Trans pals on level 9000 again.

We really are all the same person on here, aren't we? Lol

Not OP, but:

Susan G. Komen pink on everything once a year, #girlboss, 9000 stock photos of women being women at business, bragging about a high percent of the company being women while all of the top 10% earners are men, making a Big Deal about international women's day on social media while quietly fucking with insurance to drive up the cost of women's healthcare, etc. etc.

Oops, all berries!

FYI, Fluent Reader appears to have an Android .apk now: https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader-lite/releases/tag/v1.0.4%2B11

I don't believe you.

Under-the-bed monsters running a honeypot.