• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Normies like you who hypothesize selling underwater homes to… Idk fish? Aquaman?

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      Normies like the dementia-addled rapist and racist who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, shits in a gold toilet and puts ketchup on his steaks that Shapiro wants to be president. Again.

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    I did. I voted in the primary for a normal-ass guy and then voted for him again in the house. The Shapiros party gerrymandered him out of his office. Sorry you guys keep voting for lunatics, but you reap what you sow

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    I’d rather an electoral system where primaries aren’t necessary to avoid in party spoiler effects

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        Nah, “The Party” never picks candidates, it’s just that spoiler effects are removed via reforms like STAR voting

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            A petition submitted to the relevant municipal electoral committee?

            …did you just entirely forget that you get on the ballot via petitions completely outside the primary process?

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              And if there is more than one person who has a petition going? Just whoever gets the most names on a petition? Because that sounds kind of like a primary.

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                …then they both get on the ballot?

                I feel like at this point you’re going out of your way to be obtuse about not understanding what is being explained.

                Party infrastructure is involved at exactly no point in this process.

                Multiple people from the same party would be able to share the ballot.

                This is because the voting system is such that there would be no spoiler effect from two or more candidates from the same party running.

                In fact, an ideal would be for parties to encourage multiple candidates to run, since there would be few offices in contest for which there would only be a single open seat.

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                  The U.S. is a first past the post system. All you are suggesting is that whoever gets elected is still not the person most people want, except even less fairly.