Damn you Mamdani, do you see the consequences of your actions now?

#vegan

Back to the Atlantic which ends off by reassuring itself that at least we don't have ranked choice voting in our general elections.

They're so fucking scared of progressives. They're so, so fucking scared.

But maybe the research they're publishing is good anyway? I mean, we don't want a form of voting that disenfranchises Black voters, right?

So I'm sure that they have strong evidence to-

Oh look, they're all just talking out of their ass.

Okay, so that's an obvious set of Republican arguments tortured into "no no we totally care about Democrats" framing. But surely they don't have-

Oh fuck they're just Republicans, aren't they?

So let's get that out of the way, this is not a nonpartisan research firm.

So.. this is all basically bad-faith bullshit. I particularly want to call out "what if a ballot harvester has covid" as being an argument they brought up.. in fucking favor of requiring everypony to vote *physically in person*.

Everypony knows you can't catch covid at a polling place. /s

Meanwhile, leave it to the Atlantic to decide that negative campaigns, something that most voters dislike and even most Centrists say they dislike - are actually something we need to protect for.. I don't know why?

"What will candidates run on if not attack ads?"

I don't know, maybe proactive policy? Maybe they'll run on how they'll help the city? The things every voter *wants* them to run on?

The Atlantic fumes about this even as it admits that the strategizing and outcomes are *better*.

Unions and political groups endorsing multiple candidates is *good*. This is decreasing partisanship and increasing cooperation.

And even the Atlantic has to admit: the strategy is simple, not chaotic.

Here are the "Republicans and Democrats need to work together, we're all on the same team" people the *moment* that actual voter coalitions get formed.

But this is the point of ranked choice voting! Different candidates don't need to go scorched earth. They can cooperate.