no one fucking told me about states banning RCV during all that yapping on here about how i should VOTE THIRD PARTY OR ELSE IM COMPLICIT in the DNCs CRIMES

it may or may not be joever, very blackpilled at this moment

edit it’s actually 10 states. 5 in the past two months.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      thanks i made this in a rush and definitely could have put more details :)

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      EC is there for a reason, it’s just not used for that reason

      Imagine a candidate loyal to one of America’s enemies was voted in. The EC is there to stop that

          • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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            1 month ago

            No, the problem is that they’re elected. So the winner with absolute power is the one who can scam people and rig the system into giving them it. Vs a family which legally holds all of the power and supreme military authority but delegates it to a democratic system

            • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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              1 month ago

              the winner with absolute power is the one who can scam people and rig the system

              You don’t think monarchs scam people or rig economic systems?

              I’m guessing you’ve never heard of Mohammad Bin Salmen.

              a family which legally holds all of the power and supreme military authority but delegates it to a democratic system

              A political fiction. The British Royals reserve the right to block legislation and routinely get their way simply by threatening to do so.

              The Saudis and the Singaporese are even more naked in their disregard for democratic rule.

              And we all know how the dictatorial governorship of Hong Kong ended. China quite literally bought the governor out.

              • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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                1 month ago

                Since when was Mohammed Bin Salman a constitutional monarch? Your two examples on why constitutional monarchy is bad uses countries that aren’t constitutional monarchies.

                If we’re doing this, I may as well show how Vladimir Putin is an example of why a democratically elected president is a bad idea. The advantage with a monarch is that you’re rolling the dice every 20-30 years (70 in the case of Elizabeth II) and you know who the next person is. If they were truly evil there’d be enough time to stop them from coming up and depose them. With an elected president it’s unpredictable, every 5-10 years, and it’s not obvious who’d replace them either.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Imagine a candidate loyal to one of America’s enemies was voted in.

        A candidate who won the state-weighted national popularity contest would only be “one of America’s enemies” if the weighting was wildly off. Even then, Said candidate wouldn’t be the enemy of all Americans, just enemy of the states with the underweight majority.

        And if half of America hates the other half? Then every president is loyal to one of America’s enemies.