My expectation for it is simply that DDG isn’t running any AI to give me an overview/summary, and instead just giving me links to relevant sites. It’s not DDG fault if sites hosting content don’t clearly mark that the content was AI generated. Is there even a standard for sites to convey that to search engine indexers?
Ah, so full circle ignoring that there were, in fact, primaries held (albeit with two states not including the presidential race on their primary ballots, which as I already said, fuck those guys). I do wish there had been serious challengers to vote for in that race.
push your shit ass party to earn some fucking votes
Voting in the primary is exactly how we can most effectively do that.
none of what you wrote means a damned thing.
You can choose to ignore observable facts all you want, but that won’t change the reality of them.
Voting 3rd party at the state and federal level in a district without some form of RCV or an encumbent 3rd party representative is pretty much a counter-productive to giving greater political power to your preferred end of the political spectrum. It’s just lowering the number of votes the opposing end of the spectrum needs to win because of our first-past-the-post plurality winner-takes-all system. Yes, I know it’s a corrupt system working as designed by those in power. Quoting myself from another thread where included sources for all this:
We won’t get rid of the two-party system by voting for losing 3rd party candidates. At present there are a grand total of 3 (out of 535) federal legislators who are not either Democratic or Republican. Bernie Sanders ran in the Democratic primary for Senate in 2008, winning the nomination but then declining it to run as an Independent. Kevin Kiley was first elected as a Republican and then declared as Independent after several years in office. In all state legislatures combined, there are a total of 6 state senators and 22 state representatives out of 7,578 total state legislative seats. There hasn’t been a single electoral college vote for a presidential 3rd party candidate sine 1968, and Perot won 19% of the national popular vote in 1992! Unless you already live in a district with ranked choice voting or with an independent elected official, the odds of displacing either of the major parties is effectively zero. So your best opportunity for reform is still to vote for such candidates at the state level in the major party primary.
For county and below, have at it. If your state/federal rep is already 3rd party or independent and not getting trounced in public approval, keep them. If your district has RCV, definitely support 3rd party. but in the other 99.5% of districts, voting Green at state and federal level is just making easier for a Republican to win.
oh I’ve always heard it “up shit creek without an oar.” When you said paddle I was thinking like table tennis. 😅
I’m gonna have to remember ‘turd paddle’
At present I believe the only way to get past the EC is with National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. And the only way to get that is to elect state legislators who will support adopting in. The only way to get them on the general election ballot to be elected is to vote for them in the primary. And since our current reality is that over 99% of state and federal legislators are Democratic or Republican, I believe we can only get those people who support electoral reform elected by nominating them in either the Democratic or Republican primary. It’s an actionable thing that we can all do today that doesn’t require any systemic reform to have already taken place and it’s backed by observable reality. Do you have an alternate suggestion?
Oh no, baronvonj on lemmy “blames” me for Kamala and the DNC shitting the bed and running a candidate
No, that’s a strawman, I never blamed non-voters for Kamala’s campaign or the DNC. I blame them for not voting because that made it easier for Trump to win, by lowering the number of votes he needed to do so. I do blame Kamala for her policies and her campaign managers for their campaign. But I accept that this is real life with real consequences and come election day it was either going to be Trump or Kamala announced as the winner regardless of those things, so I voted against Trump.
And voters go into the election with the nominees they have, not the nominees they wish they had. And to be clear, people who skip an election because the equate that to voting for “none of the above” are non-voters in that election. The reality we have is that [for over 99% of the state and federal legislative offices and for the presidency] either the Democratic or the Republican nominee will win that election regardless of how many people don’t vote or why they chose not to. Not voting lowers the number of votes needed for the other side of the political spectrum to win. It’s the last chance for the voting-eligible public to effect the outcome of that election, and to skip it and silence themselves and then complain about the outcome deserves being confronted over. And again, pointing this out does not excuse the failure of Kamala/Walz and their campaign runners and the DNC of their faults. All of them have blame here.
You should be mad about it. But I think that anger should be expressed by bringing more people to the primaries to tell the DNC we will elect our own nominee rather than roll over and take what they want us to. Look at Mandami and AOC, they got on the ballot in spite of the party insiders and donors, because the people showed up to vote.
they changed the convention rules for superdelegate in 2017, now they don’t even get to vote for the nominee unless the pledged delegates can’t elect a nominee in the first round of voting at the convention. Not that the superdelegates even mattered in 2016, as Hillary won the popular primary vote and had enough pledged delegates.
I can absolutely fault every single person who didn’t vote in either the primary or the general for giving up their voice. Voting is the only speech that matters in respect to who is sworn into office. If you don’t speak up when it counts then I will absolutely call you out for complaining about the result.
One of the candidates on the ballot will be sworn into office whether you vote or not. So regardless if you’re voting for someone or against someone, it’s foolish to silence your only voice in the selection process.
that’s a fair point.
All but two states had candidates for president on their Democratic primary ballots (fuck those two that didn’t). My state had like 7 candidates to pick from. And then again for the convention, after Biden dropped out, they opened up the field for candidates to declare again and the pledged delegates all voted on the nominee. What you really should be mad at is that there weren’t any serious challengers running, but that’s the fault of those individuals for not doing so (even it was under private pressure from the DNC it was their own choice to capitulate). You’re also forgetting that a measly 4% of primary voters showed up to vote for “Uncommitted,” which turned out to be hugely successful in drawing media attention to the discontent of active voters and contributed to Biden’s eventual stepping down.
The blame doesn’t fall wholly on the one side or the other, here. Between the voters, nominees, campaign runners, and the party itself every had something they needed to do to win. Failures were made among all groups and it’s valid to point all of them out.
Blaming the Republican party is wrong
not it isn’t, they have much to be blamed for. but there’s plenty of blame to go to other groups, too.
If the South and rural areas had equal access to wealth and education
If you think the North and urban areas do have equal access then you need to take another look. The oligarchs are quite fond of living in metropolitan areas and segregating education between public and private schools.
I’ve been using Joplin on my phone and laptop with WebDAV sync to my NAS. Have plans to update to Joplin server so can share notes with the Baroness.