Mastodawn

@HakeemG @cdarwin You are absolutely right. Ranked Choice Voting is not a panacea for what's ailing us. What's most wrong with our democracy right now is too much money. That's one reason I'm working with #MoveToAmend to end corporate personhood. Ranked Choice Voting (or Instant Runoff Voting) does actually address some of the reasons we are where we are. It hasn't been around a long time so it's challenging to make conclusive statements about it but it looks like:
* Elected Candidates must have popular support (you must get votes from > %50 of the electorate to win)
* It increases campaign civility (you might put me second or third on your ballot if I don't go scorched earth on your favorite candidate)
* Increases voter turnout. If I can proudly cast my top vote for Ross Perot or Ralph Nader without spoiling my ballot I'm much more likely vote.
* Saves money, no runoff.
Check out this article by the American Bar Association: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_interest/election_law/american-democracy/our-work/what-we-know-about-ranked-choice-voting-2025/

What We Know About Ranked Choice Voting, Updated for 2025

This paper examines whether ranked choice voting (RCV) enhance American democracy by better representing the people and increasing the focus on coalition-building in elections.

bsmall2 Jun 15, 2025

> the We the People Amendment (HJR54). This is not about regulating corporations better. It’s about breaking the illegitimate foundation of their power and declaring that we should have the power and right to define corporate actions

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/no-kings-corporate-power
#MoveToAmend #CorporateRule #NaturalPersons #uspol

No Kings, No Corporations: Rejecting Authoritarian and Corporate Rule | Common Dreams

As we protest authoritarianism this Saturday—and legitimately condemn the many anti-democratic and unjust actions of Trump—let us also remember the tyranny of our corporate overlords who have been—perhaps more quietly but not less aggressively—eroding our democracy.

Common Dreams

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Michael Apr 5, 2025

The B-Side, just waiting for friends to pick us up. Just about march o'clock!
#movetoamend #50501protests #HandsOff2025

7sleepersmusic Aug 2, 2024

#CampaignFinanceReform is possible. #CitizensUnited can be overturned. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #MoveToAmend #WeThePeopleAmendment #USPol #Vote2024 https://www.movetoamend.org/

Move to Amend

We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.

Move to Amend

Bo Morgan May 1, 2024

Your Vital Role in the Uprising: A discussion inspired by the “Manifesto for World Revolution”

https://cool.world/event/your-vital-role-in-the-uprising/

#radicalguide #movetoamend #adbusters #economy #corporate #capitalism #socialism #anarchism #coolworld #uprising #revolution

Your Vital Role in the Uprising: A discussion inspired by the “Manifesto for World Revolution”

Join us for a pivotal panel discussion that dives deep into the pressing themes of Adbusters’ latest book, a guide dedicated to unveiling the true cost of production and the necessity of dismantling corporate power for the creation of a just, sustainable future.

Cool World

Eagle Globe & Flanker Dec 5, 2023

Move To Amend #MoveToAmend
#Democracy #Republic https://youtu.be/Sgn6ml1OeCk?si=UrrTyMkbEBe1MCX9

Is The U.S. a Democracy Or a Republic? It's Neither.

YouTube

PeachMcD Nov 11, 2023

@ThomHartmann has been warning about this for some time

There are some lefties who think they'd be able to do good in such a gathering

#MoveToAmend was advocating supporting a Constitutional convention

Sadly, #Kapital will be all ready to eat their lunch

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/10/mike-johnson-rewrite-constitution-00126157

Inside Mike Johnson’s Ties to a Far-Right Movement to Gut the Constitution

The new House speaker has longstanding ties to the evangelical inspired Convention of States cause.

POLITICO

bs2 Jul 11, 2023

> The suits alleges, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on illegally-acquired datasets containing their works, which they say were acquired from “shadow library” websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and others, noting the books are “available in bulk via torrent systems.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai
/HT #MoveToAmend
#ChatGPT #OPenAI #AIorSalami #AISalami #SarahSilverman #Meta #LLaMa

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement

Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey are suing OpenAI and Meta over violation of their copyrighted books. The trio says their works were pulled from illegal “shadow libraries” without their consent.

The Verge

Chuck Darwin Mar 16, 2023

Wisconsin Supreme Court race already most expensive in U.S. history

At least $8.8 million has been spent since the Feb. 21 primary election, putting the total spending tally from the start of the primary election race to Tuesday at $18 million — breaking the record of the country’s most expensive judicial race, previously set in 2004 in Illinois at $15 million, with five weeks still to go until the April 4 general election.

Both parties -- and #darkmoney superpac's -- pour out-of-state money into elections because the stakes are high and *because they can*.

It is beyond time to roll back #citizensunited and related corruption promoting Supreme Court decisions, wether by Constitutional amendment ( see #MoveToAmend ) or #rebalancing #SCOTUS

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/02/28/wisconsin-supreme-court-race-already-most-expensive-in-u-s-history/69955195007/