Trev625

joined 1 year ago
[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Wow I actually really like that idea. I don't think I would've ever come up with it myself. It'd be cool to have a candidate platform made up of the best crowdsourced policy ideas.

[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

For me it looks like this:

So the text one appears the same for both of us but the emoji one appears differently which could possibly change its meaning if they were different enough

[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://www.equal.vote/star_vs_rcv

"Voters in RCV can't always safely vote 1st choice for their honest favorites Ranked Choice proponents often make the inaccurate claim that “With RCV, voters can honestly rank candidates in order of choice. Voters know that if their first choice doesn’t win, their vote automatically counts for their next choice instead. This frees voters from worrying about how others will vote and which candidates are more or less likely to win.”

In fact, you can only safely rank candidates honestly in RCV if your favorite either has no chance at all or is a very strong candidate. There is no guarantee that if your favorite is eliminated your next choice will actually be counted."

Basically if the "green" party or whatever gets big enough to oust blue then instead of the green splitting and most if not all of green voters going to blue and blue winning, blue splits and then it's down to what the blue voters put as secondary. If the blue voters were 50/50 green/red then it's very possible red wins (which is the worst outcome for a green voter. Most greens would prefer blue over red.)

However, saying all that, I STILL would choose RCV over FPTP. I just wish STAR would get some recognition since RCV actually doesn't solve all our issues. RCV does have one thing that STAR doesn't, and that's that more people know what it is and it has been used in real elections.

[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Ranked choice voting doesn't get rid of the chance of a spoiler, though. We'd need to go to STAR for that.

[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah I'm not sure either. He used to do science-y videos before I started watching and I think his political videos really caught the algorithm which changed what kind of content he made for sure.

Thanks for the plug! I'll definitely check them out. I've been missing that kinda stuff since all the "Breadtube" people make 2 hour long videos with long breaks now haha

[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it was the "We need to talk about 'Authoritarianism' " video. I'd have to rewatch it to find what I found objectionable at the time lol

[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If it makes you feel any better, I was even later than you to stop watching. I didn't know about any of that Nebula stuff and only found out when one of his videos was so insane I had to go see how other people felt about it.

[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Wow everything looks so well maintained! Guess that's the difference when you look at taxes as doing your part for the good of everyone vs the "gubment stealin ur hard earnd cash" sentiment we have around here. Also it looks like things are just plain closer together too.

There are some nicer places a little bit southeast of where I live but they're even further apart because the houses are bigger, the lots they are on are bigger and that makes the neighborhood larger which makes getting anywhere pretty much require a car. Not like I could afford living over there anyway haha

[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wish we could ride bikes but here in the US there is absolutely no infrastructure for it. The closest Domino's to me is 3 miles away. Riding a bike there would be extremely scary.

Even if you take Google's specified bike route through the neighborhoods you still have to go out onto the main roads at some point. First main road speed limit is 30mph where people routinely go 40-45. Second main road is 35mph where people also go 40-45. And the final stretch of "stroad" speed limit is 45mph where people go 55-60mph.

Here you can use Google streetview and follow the route as if you were biking and see it yourself. https://maps.app.goo.gl/v4MnfPeZ9LuFzV8y6?g_st=ac (Don't worry, I'm not doxxing myself)

[–] Trev625@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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