Ranked choice is basically FPTP with simulated rounds. It's not much better than FPTP. Switching from one bad voting system to a marginally better one isn't going to fix things.

Good

But both sides am I right?

Did anybody else do a double take thinking this was an image of Terry Davis?

There are several countries that have FPTP voting, but they’re not as entrenched at everywhere into two parties the way the US is.

Sure, that's because there are other factors at play. But FPTP is one of the biggest factors, and in other countries with FPTP it is always the case where there are two dominant parties. Your own example, the UK, has that problem with the conservative & labour parties being the biggest. They always dominate the seats in parliament.

regional party, and the other major party has little to no voting base there.

Sure, but a part of why FPTP is so bad is because it gets worse the bigger the election. A small regional election may only have two candidates to begin with, which means any system of voting is esentially equal.

National elections are almost guaranteed to have at least 3 candidates running for a seat, often 4 or 5 if its a seat like the presidency. And that's where you see third parties suffering most.

The fewer the seats there are, and the more national the election is, the worse FPTP gets.

you look at the makeup of their legislatures over the past 100+ years, you’ll see that they are just as filled with Democrats and Republicans as everywhere else.

That's because the two parties are so entrenched everywhere else. It's in their interest to dominate and push out 3rd parties in those elections as well.

Point is, FPTP is not the only thing at play.

Agreed, though it is clearly one of the biggest factors in 3rd parties failing. We need reprentational government, and this ain't it.

Exactly what about this post is a half truth/lie/false information/etc?

Or are you using the more lax definition which means anything that attempts to effect public opinion?

Absolutely wild that he put his name in that check for his AD status. Not that there's a way around being 100% untraceable, but at least a little bit of obfuscation would have been better.

A 3rd party could try and build from the bottom up and dismantle the two parties powerbase but it doesn’t seem to be happening.

Not really. The FPTP system makes that incredibly difficult. You can't get votes without taking some amount away from the closest party.

So existing parties are encouraged to shut down and absorb new parties. And new parties will struggle to get a majority of the old party, let alone a majority of the entire election.

We need a system that doesn't have these nonstarter problems, and that's star + approval voting.

Luigi had countless fans metaphorically sucking his dick before it came out that he allegedly did it. I wonder if a similar thing could happen with an oil refinery or something.

Where are you Mario?

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That was some wild shit I just read.

The noose is becoming increasingly pertinent to this meme.

And there's a second layer of it being wild that we can even communicate with them, despite being outside of the solar system, and being 50 years old.

What value comes from severing those relationships?

Idiocracy was ahead of its time

Oops, here's a couple dozen, looks like we mistakenly labeled a shipment.

But when you call for the same for swathes of billionaires, oil execs, etc it's somehow a problem

Oh no

If only we could have seen this coming