• danhab99@programming.dev
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    24 days ago

    When will we prolls wrap our heads around the fact that we have been excluded from the Democratic process by the electoral vote. Not trying to be mean or sarcastic I’m just looking for a timeline.

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      24 days ago

      To get rid of the electoral college, we have to start local. Vote and campaign in your town to have ranked choice voting, then move up to your county, then state, and then spread the effort to nearby states. The point is that this is something that requires a bottom up approach, not a top down one. Most people don’t even know what the alternatives are and how they work, we have to normalize and implement them. It’s also easier to influence local and regional politics over national ones, which makes your votes and efforts more impactful.

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        23 days ago

        Do you do all that before or after you go to college, get married, buy a house for white picket fence, have three children, rank up at your 9:00 to 5:00, and lock down your pension?

        Cuz I got to be honest I’m not really sure if the past is really much of a path

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          19 days ago

          I don’t really understand what your point is. Change requires time, effort, and resources. It’s much easier to do this on a smaller scale where your contributions have more influence and then build up on that. Expecting national change while doing nothing about it just means that it won’t happen, especially if everybody else thinks the same.