ericbuhler.bsky.social
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4) Build more trust and engagement between national funders, campaign consultants, and grassroots leaders.
5) Take the fight to our opponents.
A detailed report will be coming from the Open Primaries team early 2025. You can read their full letter here:
letusvote.org/r?u=MvSslwuXxC…
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Other goals for 2025/2026 include:
2) Attract more investment for early stage voter education and leadership development.
3) Use defense, litigation and legislation campaigns to build the foundation of our movement.
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"This is not an argument for a rigid or antagonistic divorce. What we should not do is combine them in ways that are forced or premature, particularly for a state-wide campaign."
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"Combining open primaries with ranked choice voting weighed down ballot referendums in Colorado and Idaho and even bled over into states that did not combine them, like Arizona and South Dakota."
(I would add that it weighed down Montana, as well)
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"But the dominant culture within the reform movement for the past 6 years has been that combining open primaries with RCV is the gold standard. The victory in Alaska in 2020 reinforced this. This has created distortions that should be unraveled."
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"The two reforms have different constituencies, different opponents, different political/social histories, and are at very different points in their journeys towards public understanding and acceptance."
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I'm the Executive Director of RCV Montana. I'm abandoning RCV... because we can do better.
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Let's dedicate this thread to finalizing our moniker...
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This was a fantastic session and probably my favorite of the symposium!
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420 million Crypto advocates
220 million Holders.
youtu.be/4LqpGrWGNqE?...
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733 ExaHash: More power than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple or any nation state could muster
18 gigawatts: 18 full-on nuclear reactors; more than the United States Navy runs on
850 Billion in Real Capital: Real money, deposited by real people, who will fight to protect their capital.
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With viewership declining at MSNBC, the search for an echo chamber continues.
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With viewership declining at MSNBC, the search for an echo chamber continues👇🏼
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I think that the duopoly masks the fact that liberalism is at the center of conservatism and progressivism; and at the center between authoritarianism and libertarianism. I think the two major parties and voters struggle to find a political home when this larger spectrum tries to become a binary.
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Interesting AND educational. 🙏🏼
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How thoughtful of you to engage. Thank you for clicking & informing me that you found the ideas to be uninteresting/stupid/uneducational/potentially dangerous...in tacit good faith. No doubt you have better things to do (like read uninteresting studies) than gracing us w/ another interesting reply.
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Cybercriminals also use the telephone, electricity, lightbulbs, automobiles, the interwebs, refrigerators, post on Bluesky, and carry dimes, and quarters.
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Which positions do you find stupid and potentially dangerous?
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Did you read the whole thread?
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Fiat currency has been used off and on since at least the 13th Century. The dollar has been off the gold standard since 1971.
I would say, give Bitcoin some time to fix 50+ years of debasement. It's only been 16 years. But blockchain is the fastest rate of technological adoption in human history.
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- All vaccines do not work and/or are harmful.
Some of these positions are reasonable, others not.
Forcing all of these perspectives into a binary pro/anti stance ruins the nuance of positions people actually hold.
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- Vaccines probably work, but manufacturers' should be liable so they can be trusted.
- Specific vaccines have problems or are harmful.
- Some vaccines may not past the cost/benefit test.
- Some vaccines do not work.
- Vaccines are the root cause of the autism epidemic.
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(1998): “By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”
—Paul Krugman, Winner of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
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(1889): “Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.”
—Thomas Edison
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(1878): “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”
—William Henry Preece, Chief Engineer of the British Post Office
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Has it though?