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Somali-American leaders in Minnesota encouraged their constituents to vote for Trump because “he won’t abandon us like the left did”. Trump just restricted nationals from Somalia from entering the US (media.upilink.in)

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In my country, it's called "voting for the fox because the rooster is crowing out of tune".

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[–] Fenrisulfir 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

FPTP is a trash system

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

you didn't read anything I said

And if you did, you missed the point

Point was: prevent the worst by using this system, which can easily be adopted by any government that originally had a FPTP system into a system with two elections for electing seats and another for run-off presidential elections

Though, because of gerrymandering and how the system for electing seats may still be FPTP, it'll still be damn awful

I think Britain uses this system for something to research if you're interested

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I think Britain uses this system for something to research if you're interested

They do and it's absolute dogshit, as a country that has more than 2 parties present in Parliament, which a healthy democracy should have, mathematically majority of the country is going to end up with an unwanted prime minister, usually 1 of the 2 largest parties. CGP Grey n veritasium explained the maths behind it and why it's mathematically less democratic than proportional representation

The states have it as well but on the extreme end, where it's a duopoly shared by two both shit and corrupt parties.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, it's ass, I was thinking of CGP Gray when I thought of Britain, but I would say it isn't as ass as USA, the there are obvious and large(r) alternative parties available if they ever become big enough

(I am not British nor American)