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  • Versus FPTP, which funnels votes to 2 big parties, forces strategic voting and discards everyone else’s opinions?

    Ranked choice allows the politicians in a country to see what people actually want. There’s been countless elections in my country where I’d have voted Green if I knew that vote would then be transferred to the party of my preference, rather than effectively being a vote for the party I like least (as a third party vote is in FPTP).

    If the incoming government knows the only reason they got in was down to a load of transferred green votes, they would be pressured to push for a policy agenda more skewed in that direction and in theory should result in a government more representative of the people that voted for it













  • The wording of the petition has zero impact on any legislation that may follow.

    A petition’s purpose is literally only to alert the governing body that enough people give a shit about this that they should have a discussion about it. It has no additional power beyond that.

    That discussion might end up going nowhere, it might end up convincing some politicians that maybe we need some legislation in this area. What they will then do, is talk to everyone they can about coming up with legislation that’s practical and works for everyone involved.

    The wording of the petition does not matter, because it has no bearing on any subsequent action whatsoever. All a petition can do is force a conversation between politicians.

    Your comment is a fantastic example of how he has muddied the waters, none of what you have said is relevant at all to the petition process.

    We are not a direct democracy, legislators write legislation. Petitioners don’t.

    All this guy is doing is silencing people.


  • The two main “hard left” instances have been defederated from LW too (hex and grad)

    LML is ostensibly a general instance with a strong left wing slant. So I’m assuming those are the users you’re referring to. Every time I’ve personally seen a LML user step over the line for a given community’s rules, they have been banned for it.

    Predominantly though, those users are capable of understanding rules and following them.

    That’s literally all anyone needs to do.

    It’s not really about political views. It’s simply about not being an asshole.