Ranked choice voting (or similar) needs to be pushed through
People need to recognize and relate to new parties.

So I’m inferring you believe people will suddenly start voting for 3rd parties in order to then get voting reforms enacted, rather than voting reform being the necessary catalyst to making 3rd parties viable?

Just look at the numbers. At present there are a grand total of 3 (out of 535) federal legislators who are not either Democratic or Republican. Bernie Sanders ran in the Democratic primary for Senate in 2008, winning the nomination but then declining it to run as an Independent. Kevin Kiley was first elected as a Republican and then declared as Independent after several years in office. In all state legislatures combined, there are a total of 6 state senators and 22 state representatives out of 7,578 total state legislative seats.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_members_of_the_United_States_Congress
• https://ballotpedia.org/Current_independent_and_minor_party_federal_and_state_officeholders
• https://www.ncsl.org/about-state-legislatures/state-partisan-composition

Fewer than half of US states have a process for voters to initiate new legislation by direct ballot initiative (if you include voter-led veto ballot initiative of existing legislation, or state Constitutional amendments it’s 26, but strictly for writing and passing new legislation it’s 21).

https://ballotpedia.org/States_with_initiative_or_referendum

And 13 states have already banned RCV.

https://news.ballotpedia.org/2025/03/25/thirteen-states-have-now-banned-ranked-choice-voting-as-municipalities-decide-on-whether-to-adopt-it/

So I think we need the 3rd party candidates and voters to run and vote in the major party primaries in order to get elected. Like we’ve been seeing with DSA candidates winning Democratic primaries and previously Tea Party candidates winning Republican primaries. Either that or successfully calling a new Constitutional Convention to rewrite the whole damn thing, and I really don’t think that will play out the way we would want it to in the current political climate.

the real solution is to do away with the two party system

How do envision getting from here to there?

For anyone else who didn’t know, this is the Anti-ock Spiderman suit featured in the Marvel’s Spider-man games.

I mean, fake or not, it’s just such a great sentence.

“A Florida woman has been accused of entering the penguin enclosure to teach them to tap dance, using a live alligator as her partner.”

Most likely would have been BitKeeper. Torvalds famously despised SVN.

the fear isn’t that a rich person leaves. the fear is that a large employer moves and takes all those jobs with it.

Oh this is for a primary election. Still a stupid decision by the chief.

They usually have the nominating party listed for each candidate, too.

Fixed the NYC budget within 100 days of taking office.

Importantly, he did it without reducing services or raising taxes.

not as a matter of disbelief, but statements like this are good to accompany with a source.

Have they ever heard of Libertalia?

This is more about using pen/pencil and paper instead of laptops rather than phone distractions.

He has to be impeached and removed before he can legally be indicted for anything in order to then be deposed and imprisoned.

Fewer than half of the US states have recall elections

https://ballotpedia.org/States_where_state_legislators_can_be_recalled

Smart for voter-initiated ballot initiatives

https://ballotpedia.org/States_with_initiative_or_referendum

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Yutes?

and you force them to tell

probably not the right tone to use when those people probably believe him to be a rapist

That has absolutely no relation to the question. The question is about when the bike is first started, and still parked, the owner lets it sit there idling loud as fuck, and often revs it up multiple times, for several minutes.

The real answer is that generally speaking these are bikes meant for performance and speed, so they need to warm up before they drive well. The people using them to commute to and from work in and out of the be suburbs are the same people who drive gigantic ass Fuck You pickup trucks to their office job and need special parking because it doesn’t fit in the regular employee lot/garage.