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Re:Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free... by gorwell on Thursday December 16, 2021 @12:30PM (#29580934)
How many times are we going to fall for `This is the most important election of our lives!`. It's always about choosing the lesser evil. Every time. And then nothing changes.

Andrew Yang has the right idea. We need to break the duopoly by implementing Ranked-Choice Voting and Nonpartisan Primaries.

Re:Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free... by tablespoon on Thursday December 16, 2021 @02:48PM (#29582945)
>> How many times are we going to fall for `This is the most important election of our lives!`. It's always about choosing the lesser evil. Every time. And then nothing changes.

> Andrew Yang has the right idea. We need to break the duopoly by implementing Ranked-Choice Voting and Nonpartisan Primaries.

Those sound like a technical solutions to a social problem.

Re:Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free... by lawrenceyan on Thursday December 16, 2021 @03:51PM (#29583741)
Why can’t technical solutions help to simplify/ease the social problem? It’s clearly not the only thing required, but it would provide some major relief.
Re:Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free... by tablespoon on Thursday December 16, 2021 @08:46PM (#29586732)
> Why can’t technical solutions help to simplify/ease the social problem? It’s clearly not the only thing required, but it would provide some major relief.

They can be part of a more holistic solution, but here they were presented as the solution. And if you only have half a solution, it may turn out to be half of the wrong one.