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[–] Sanctus 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] FlyingSquid 30 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What does his wife's dry vagina think about that?

[–] FlyingSquid 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a perfectly normal vagina when a woman is sexually aroused, thank you very much.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 20 points 1 week ago

During great sex they should double as a dehumidifier.

[–] makeshiftreaper 30 points 1 week ago

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

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is he throwing shade at Trump?

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 1 week ago

You're giving him too much credit.

[–] njm1314 7 points 1 week ago

If these weirdos want direct democracy I think a lot of us would be for it.

[–] Etterra 6 points 1 week ago

Ben Shortpiro wouldn't know normal if it walked calmly by minding it's own business.

[–] Nastybutler 4 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Feathercrown 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do people not understand what you mean here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I am baffled beyond baffling by how everyone swerved on this one

[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So the party picks the candidate every time?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] FlyingSquid -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If there is no primary, who do you think picks the candidate?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

[–] FlyingSquid -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

....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.

[–] FlyingSquid -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok now I know you're intentionally being obtuse.

Read the fucking chain Sea Lion and quit arguing with a position you invented out of thin air.

[–] FlyingSquid -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Insulting me doesn't explain why your idea of a half dozen candidates in a first past the post system, meaning that a large majority of people don't get what they want, is better than what we have now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

BECAUSE I AM VERY OBVIOUSLY NOT TALKING ABOUT A FPTP SYSTEM YOU ILLITERATE COW!

READ THE DAMN CHAIN! I EXPLICITLY CALLED OUT STAR VOTING IN THE FUCKING CHAIN!

USE YOUR CONTEXT CLUES GODDAMN YOU!

[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well since you only talked about getting rid of primaries and not also completely revamping the entire electoral system, I'm not sure what context clues I was supposed to use to know that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

... their first comment was saying they want an electoral system that doesn't need primaries, and their second talked about STAR voting. So while they were pretty confrontational about it, they did make it pretty clear that this is about the wider electoral process

[–] Feathercrown 3 points 1 week ago

How about the part where they started by saying "I’d rather an electoral system where primaries aren’t necessary" thus alluding to the fact that they want a different electoral system

[–] jaggedrobotpubes 1 points 1 week ago

Open primaries.