Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban

Re:Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban by MeImCounting on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @01:35PM (#40431386)

Yes this is true mostly because we as a country have become more and more disengaged from policy discussions and active participation in politics in general. This combined with older people being much more likely to vote and to vote conservative has led to the sort of multi-decade-incumbent ridden congress we have now.

This can pretty easily be solved by younger people voting more and enacting ranked choice voting. America is so cool because nothing (except maybe the bill of rights) is set in stone, we can change how it is!

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Re:Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban by int_19h on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @08:07PM (#40435838)

Younger people voting more in the primaries would help a great deal.

With respect to ranked choice, that would certainly help a lot, except that both parties by now have realized that it is a threat to their dominance. You kinda expect that from Republicans, but there have been a slew of pieces critical of ranked choice and basically everything other than winner-takes-all from the left as well lately, accusing it of being racist etc.

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Re:Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban by MeImCounting on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @09:52PM (#40436556)

Yeah its pretty gross that the left is against ranked choice and it also somewhat validates the whole Trumpist "uniparty" conspiracy theory. I do think its coming in the future as most younger people I know are totally supportive of it if I bring it up with them. I also think it would increase voter turnout in younger demographics as well.

All in all I think its important that we as a society bring more people into the political conversation. I want conservatives and liberals in the same room disagreeing more. I think that would help more than any other single thing.

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