People Twitter

8655 readers

1026 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

Mark NSFW content.
No doxxing people.
Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
No bullying or international politcs
Be excellent to each other.
Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major figure or a politician. Archive.is the best way.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

SendMeYourTaTas@sh.itjust.works

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works

1254

Taking bets on if this person even lives near a Costco, or even on the same continent as one (discuss.online)

submitted 4 days ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

135 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

you would simply an ignorant moron who doesn’t understand the fucked up problems that are baked into any “first past the post” system

Idk if I'd call someone who hasn't mastered the electoral math of various esoteric voting systems a "moron".

The system is working exactly as they fucking intended

Really depends on who you ask. You'd be hard pressed to convince a bunch of 2016 mega-donors that the optimal result of the season was a Donald Trump presidency. That's certainly not where all the big money went during the primaries.

FPTP doesn't play well with gerrymandering or hyper-partisanism. If your elections are decided by the primary, and your primary is closed or otherwise stacked to favor the most ideologically pure candidates, you end up with an elected bureaucracy that looks like a fun house mirror reflection of the base.

Ask Jeb Bush if this is the outcome he intended ten years ago. Ask Liz Cheney and Cindy McCain. Politics is way off the target drawn by the neocons back in 2000.