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Tennessee Congressional Candidate Arrested for Shooting Flock Safety Cameras

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Gadget ReviewTennessee Congressional Candidate Arrested for Shooting Flock Safety CamerasTennessee congressional candidate Adam Heimerman was arrested for shooting four Flock Safety ALPR cameras, facing felony vandalism charges in the same district debating the tech.

Replying to @⁨sanitation@lemmy.today⁩

Did you guys know that when you vote for state primaries you have to choose which political party to get the choices for and you don’t see any other choices?

So this guy being independent, you would only ever get to vote for him if you picked the independent ballot and then you couldn’t vote for any of the democrats who are the only real chances to actually win against republicans and unseat them.

Whole thing’s fucking rigged man.

Replying to @⁨DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip⁩

I mean that’s kind of how it works. A primary is simply a primary between that particular party’s candidates. So you’re not going to be choosing this guy for Democrat ballot if you’re an independent. I’m an independent and I’m not voting in the Democrat or Republican primaries. However in the general election I can then choose whatever candidate I want to select. I’ve never heard of an independent primary but then again most Independence are not listed as a specific political party. Because independent is not a political party it is a non-affiliation.

Replying to @⁨DudleyMason@lemmy.ml⁩

What an idiotic statement. Yeah the system sucks it needs to be fixed it’s fucking broken. We need more than two actual parties in this system. However it’s the system we have and it’s the system we have to work in so immediately stopping reading is the stupidest fucking thing you can do. Get registered fucking vote quit bitching and whining unless you’re part of the system and trying to change it.

Replying to @⁨titanicx@lemmy.zip⁩

“Quit complaining about how rigged the voting system is and just vote! Its the only system we have, can’t change it so stop complaining”

Is that right?

How can we change it if not telling everyone we know what a steaming pile of shit it all is and that it is clearly rigged and needs change? The voting part is the part not working because of how it is set up to be rigged.

Ranked choice is the answer. Not whatever farce this is that they are doing.

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Replying to @⁨titanicx@lemmy.zip⁩

Nope not what I said. The current way they are doing the voting is a steaming pile of shit that needs changed.

Ranked choice is pretty much the only answer. So I’m going to advocate for that strongly and make sure I point out how fucked and broken this current system is to anyone who will listen because that is how you change it. Not by saying “shut up and vote the way it is right now” like you said.

Also, I DID vote yesterday. But I’m certainly not going to be quiet about how unfair and rigged the process is. No one I voted for won, by the way. I still feel good for doing it anyway though it is all I can do other than complain loud enough that maybe it changes something.