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		and0 on April 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is my advice too mercenary? I think the point is that many had other preferences, but our two party (and FPTP voting) system doesn't address them. Who I voted for in 2016 and 2020 weren't nearly my first choices, and I think that's a fairly common experience. Ranked choice would show a lot more nuance in people's beliefs that US politics would have to address. I haven't looked into it in some time, though. It seemed to work where implemented in Europe.

spacemanmatt on April 12, 2022 [–]

Hey, always nice to hear from a fellow RP (ranked preference aka ranked choice) voting advocate. I think RP would be better, too.

I estimated the PP was getting at a more conspiratorial notion of "other preferences" in the sense of both parties being equally bought out, etc.

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