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Tennessee Congressional Candidate Arrested for Shooting Flock Safety Cameras (www.gadgetreview.com)
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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I mean that's kind of how it works. A primary is simply a primary between that particular party's candidates. So you're not going to be choosing this guy for Democrat ballot if you're an independent. I'm an independent and I'm not voting in the Democrat or Republican primaries. However in the general election I can then choose whatever candidate I want to select. I've never heard of an independent primary but then again most Independence are not listed as a specific political party. Because independent is not a political party it is a non-affiliation.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Fyi, if your state (like Tennessee) has open primaries, you could choose to vote in one to support their worst candidate. Both major parties ask their voters do this sometimes to improve their odds in the general election.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    That's interesting I didn't even know that any states actually had open primaries like this. I've only got experience voting in two different states and neither one of them have open primaries.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (6 children)

    I mean that's kind of how it works

    And since you didn't immediately follow that with "and that's why the entire worthless system needs to be dismantled with prejudice" I stopped reading.

    That being "how it works" is a part of the problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    What an idiotic statement. Yeah the system sucks it needs to be fixed it's fucking broken. We need more than two actual parties in this system. However it's the system we have and it's the system we have to work in so immediately stopping reading is the stupidest fucking thing you can do. Get registered fucking vote quit bitching and whining unless you're part of the system and trying to change it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    The system can't be fixed, it's working exactly as intended. All of what you've said in multiple comments now seems to be repeating platitudes created to obfuscate that fact. I've been "part of the system". I spent a decade as first a volunteer then a paid campaign staffer, I know whereof I speak when I say that voting will never change anything that matters, because the choices you get to vote for are filtered for loyalty to the ruling class before you ever get to hear their names.

    The system must be completely torn down, and the people who the current system serves will absolutely unleash all the violence the Empire can muster to prevent that. Any milquetoast "solution" that depends on voting for the candidates put forward by either of the parties that serve that ruling class is not a solution, it's a trap to get you to waste your time and energy while ensuring you keep enough faith in the system to prevent you from revolting or doing anything that might actually affect the status quo.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    "Quit complaining about how rigged the voting system is and just vote! Its the only system we have, can't change it so stop complaining"

    Is that right?

    How can we change it if not telling everyone we know what a steaming pile of shit it all is and that it is clearly rigged and needs change? The voting part is the part not working because of how it is set up to be rigged.

    Ranked choice is the answer. Not whatever farce this is that they are doing.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That's right. Complain and do nothing. Voting never works. Your correct. I apologize.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Nope not what I said. The current way they are doing the voting is a steaming pile of shit that needs changed.

    Ranked choice is pretty much the only answer. So I'm going to advocate for that strongly and make sure I point out how fucked and broken this current system is to anyone who will listen because that is how you change it. Not by saying "shut up and vote the way it is right now" like you said.

    Also, I DID vote yesterday. But I'm certainly not going to be quiet about how unfair and rigged the process is. No one I voted for won, by the way. I still feel good for doing it anyway though it is all I can do other than complain loud enough that maybe it changes something.

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