abbystuller.bsky.social
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Don't cry for me, Argentina ...
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You aren't responding to the mathematics part of this. There is no way for more than two parties to function with our electoral system. All of your energy should be in changing the way we elect people. We need ranked choice or similar before any kind of third party option makes any sense at all.
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Once I am incapacitated he'd have all the time in the world to work it out!
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You are definitely a major part of keeping hope alive for us! Thank you!!!!!!!!
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So could the rest of us have that recipe? Pretty please?
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Unprecedented social unrest and collapse means the most vulnerable people suffer and die. I can't support that plan at all. The best plan is to focus on primaries way before the general, for every partisan position in races at every level. And make election reform one of the highest priorities.
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For sure the system sucks!! But the order of change has to be voting rules changed first and then more parties. The other way around is politically the worst thing for accomplishing anything people who say "third party" want.
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You cannot have a third party make sense until after you change our elections to a different system (ranked choice, proportional rep, etc.). So state your plan for that first. Otherwise you are just splitting the vote of your closest ally. It's just how the math works.
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I love your putting it in that category! It does have the same feel of space adventures where you are relying on the things you are trained and equipped to do work the way they have always worked before, and then suddenly they don't. It feels malevolent even though it's just nature doing its thing.
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Your third objective (electoral reform) needs to be first, way first. That is what we should all focus on if we want more than two parties. Mathematics makes it a necessity to come first (otherwise you just split the votes in any coalition).
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Only if you first have a plan to change our voting system (to ranked choice, for example). Our current voting system makes introducing a third party the worst choice for people who want change. The best choice is to use primaries to pull the closest party in your direction.
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He clearly cannot stand the idea that a black woman would have the audacity to try to finish a sentence in his presence. What a colossal jerk! He can't shut up for a second because it would give his target audience the opportunity to reflect on how little he actually knows and understands. Pathetic!
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Right now we have two parties A and B. You want to introduce party C that is to the left of those. What percentage does C get? If it's less than 33%, then the party least like party C wins.
The left would be much better off using whatever clout they have to push Dems left in the primaries.
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If that is the case (which I am not agreeing with, but just for the sake of understanding your earlier point), how would more parties help? How would the left gain power via new parties given our election system?
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That's definitely true!
But that's not the current system in most of our elections. We need that (PR, ranked choice, or other multi-party options) made into law first and then follow with more parties. Doing it the other way makes no sense.
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How would that do anything but split the vote of the left and guarantee the right wins given our current system of determining the winner in elections?
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Wow, that even tops To Build a Fire for how to traumatize kids. I am glad I avoided that one. The Lottery was another one that really sticks with you after many decades.
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Absolutely! Math instructors had to figure this out a couple of decades ago. The bulk of the graded work must be done in front of the instructor.
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Good thinking! It seems bound to end poorly based on his account.🥶
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Yes! I kept waiting And hoping!
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I was just kidding! Also Encyclopedia Brown is a great series that I also loved!!
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You shouldn't get married that young.