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Originally Posted By u/q0_0p At 2025-08-10 08:00:14 PM | Source


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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Extend benefits to all employees. Make employer contribution for part time employees125% of employer contribution for full time employees. Make school vouchers illegal and get all kids back into public education. Eliminate media conglomerates. Nationalize the assets of any billionaire who paid for a cabinet position in order to destroy the agency that regulates their industry. Tax the wealthy and corporations.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Ranked Choice is a bad system to use for elections.

And that's per its inventor, the Marchese de Condorcet back in the 1790s.

He came up with the instant runoff idea, and then tore it to pieces because of how poorly it performed. i.e. Instant Runoff almost never gives you the Pairwise winner, the person who would win in a direct one-to-one matchup against every other candidate.

In the 200 years since then, we've found other, more serious problems. Like the fact that the system is somehow not monotonic. Meaning that increasing the support to a candidate can actually cause them to lose the election.

There's more, but the main point stands. RCV is broken beyond repair.

A system that is not broken is STAR. Designed from the ground up to be a modern voting system.

Fun fact, while strategic voting is possible under STAR, it actually gives worse results for the strategic voter just being honest in your preference. Which is opposite of how pretty much every other voting system works.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

2 of those require a constitutional amendment which is a high bar to meet. Also personally prefer approval voting to RCV, it's easier to explain, works with existing machines, and eliminates the spoiler effect.

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They forgot privacy rights and surveillance elimination.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Except no one will bother voting for this because the dems are just as bad because they're not giving away free unicorns or something /s

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shouldn't that be "Project 2029"? That's when a new president would take office.

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Humans like even numbers more, if it's a campaigning tool you want to maximize likeability

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I say just tax all churches, not just the big ones.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shouldn't this be project 2029?

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Too bad we'll never have a benevolent tyrant who rams these things through. It's always evil that does things that way.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

CEO pay should be max 7x (do they honestly work 7x more than their lowest paid?).

And minimum wage should be $25/hour or more (with additional increases based on cost of living a d inflation).

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I would love to see unrealized gains used as collateral taxed.

I've always thought it was the fairest way to stop them from using/enjoying/benefiting from their wealth without paying taxes, without having to just outright tax unrealized gains which is pretty unfair to me.

You could optionally start it at a certain wealth level so as to not burden the working class with the extra complicated taxes it would cause, and the wealthy at that point would be able to afford the extra work on the taxes.

I sadly don't think it will ever happen in our life times =(

[–] obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not even commenting on the political decisions made in this some of which I could support.

DUMB NAME

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