But they do use desperate immigrants from poor countries to suppress wages, since their precarious situation makes them more easy to exploit and less likely to demand things like labor regulations or unions.

Then they use accusations of racism or “hating immigrants” to distract from the practice.

That’s almost as tacky as my Uighur-themed weed strain.

yeah because we live in a country with laws up here

How many mention global warming instead?

When I think of what kinds of posts are the Russian troll farms spreading to encourage division and hostility between Americans, this is the kind of post I think of.

Stop listening to the excuses, they’re a distraction.

The real reason the tariffs will never end is because he is using them to rob Americans of their tax dollars.

The only reason politicians are afraid to call him out on this is because they’re worried it will hurt their cushy jobs.

Why where do eastern countries get their parts?

Yeah that’s why I said I only use it for Reddit.

I just use the Opera or Brave browser for Reddit and nothing else, with the free VPN turned on.

The only people laughing are Russia and China. The rest of us are fucking terrified.

How do I turn my disorder into cash money?

He is half right but he forgot the “or negatively impact others’ lives” half.

what is this drunk font?

I don’t really care what flavor of election system you think is the right one.

You’re against logic and reason?

However you square it, you can have shit candidates win popular mandates. There is no system that’ll keep people you don’t like out of office, shy of a dictatorship that puts you in charge.

I’m not interested in a system that will keep people I don’t like out of office. I’m interested in a system that represents the will of the people, rather than the will of a select rich and powerful few.

If you’re willing to care, you might find one.

Suggesting it? Thirteen states have now banned ranked-choice voting as municipalities decide on whether to adopt it

I don’t see the problem here, like I said, it’s worse than FPTP.

In 2024, just 6.6% of the world population lived in “full democracies”,

I’m counting far less than 160.

Sorry I didn’t make any claims as to what constitutes a “full” democracy, I was going with these guys who put it at about 167 “democracies”.

Sure. But then IRV still gave us

IRV is just FPTP+. Like you say, it isn’t an electoral system so much as a ballot system.

We studied it, in Canada, under the name “Alternative Vote”. It was the only one we could find that was worse than FPTP:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/content/Committee/421/ERRE/Reports/RP8655791/errerp03/06-RPT-Chap4-e_files/image002.gif

There’s a reason why politicians keep suggesting it, and it’s not for our benefit.

That’s a funny looking labour government you got there UK.

How did you guys go from Corbyn to this? Is it so hard to have a labour party leader that doesn’t back Israel or Russia?

“Palestine Mechanism”

Not OP but I found this on wiki:

The WSWS described the 2014 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine as a coup backed by the United States and Germany in which the Ukrainian far-right coalition of organizations Right Sector and political party Svoboda would have played a “crucial role”.[13] Furthermore, the WSWS criticized the coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014 by the majority of German media outlets, describing it was one-sided and “anti-Russian propaganda”. Thus, leading outlets such as Der Spiegel and Die Zeit would have been clamouring for military action against Russia and attacking the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, “who is portrayed as a new Hitler and an aggressor”.[14]

About the shootdown of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014, the WSWS stated that “Washington has presented not one shred of evidence that Flight MH17 was brought down by a missile either fired by the anti-Kiev forces or supplied by Moscow”. Regarding the assassination of Boris Nemtsov in 2015, David North wrote for the WSWS that he was wondering if the United States was planning a coup to replace Putin with a “Western-friendly oligarch”.[15] On February 22, 2022 the WSWS issued a statement opposing Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, calling for the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers against both Putin and NATO.[16]

Is it so hard to find a socialist organisation that isn’t just simple contrarians?

What about the other 160 or so democracies? How they doin?

Especially the proportional representation ones. FPTP is just a hint of democracy.

Punches don’t change minds. And sometimes you lose.