• Sibshops@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    How are you measuring useless?

    Australia has RCV and has more than 2 active political parties.

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      RCV hasn’t stopped right wing governments from coming to power, nor returned lands to indigenous Australians, nor done anything to reverse concentration of wealth or media ownership.

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        6 days ago

        True, it’s just a voting system. It can’t do those things unless people vote for those things to happen.

        The thing RCV does do is break us out of the control of a 2-party government. So we could have a communist party with RCV, but can’t in our current system.

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          You can’t achieve a democracy through voting, it always results in an oligarchy. The wealthy / economically dominant classes are the only ones who have enough money / prestige to finance their campaigns and win the popularity contest. It makes any political system based on elections nothing more than political theatre.

          This is basic stuff even the ancient greeks knew, and communists learned through trial and error, yet liberals in the 21st century can’t wrap their heads around it.

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        RCV specifically is worse than say Ranked Robin voting, STAR voting, or score voting which all would make the least liked candidate winning less likely compared to RCV or FPTP.

        Most countries stopped at RCV, but Ranked Robin or STAR would be a big upgrade.

        Fixing the voting system is just one of the key things that needs to happen though. Education desperately needs reforms. Our media desperately needs reforms such as the Fairness Doctrine coming back and being expanded to all media and social media influencers/podcasters as well.

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          Ranked Robin voting?

          Never heard of it but sounds nice. We all vote for Robin Hood and then steal from the rich.

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            No need to steal, they should pay out what they owe through taxes, which should be a considerably higher sum than it is currently.

            This helps explain Ranked Robin better than I could, but it’s a great starting point for electing leaders from third parties and for helping to change the media landscape for winning elections.

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      The CIA killed the Australian Prime Minister and covered it up when he went against US interests. They are a cucked vassal state, nothing they vote on matters whatsoever. They have to obey America.