#movetoamend — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #movetoamend, aggregated by home.social.
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@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/ -
@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/ -
The B-Side, just waiting for friends to pick us up. Just about march o'clock!
#movetoamend #50501protests #HandsOff2025 -
#CampaignFinanceReform is possible. #CitizensUnited can be overturned. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #MoveToAmend #WeThePeopleAmendment #USPol #Vote2024 https://www.movetoamend.org/
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#CampaignFinanceReform is possible. #CitizensUnited can be overturned. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #MoveToAmend #WeThePeopleAmendment #USPol #Vote2024 https://www.movetoamend.org/
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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
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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
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@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
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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
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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
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On FB #MoveToAmend passed on a tweet by #RoberReich about all the tax evasion by the super rich. I wouldn't have paid attention to it but some people I know got to discussing this news and it made me think about #EKHunt's #TheInvisibleFoot , #AdamSmith's values, a recent mastodon post, and #NoamChomsky's classic speach #DemocracyAndEducation
- Democracy And Education, speech by Noam Chomsky .pdf
- E.K. Hunt in on-line book Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics
- E.K. Hunt Mastodon tag (decent guy)
- E.K. Hunt James Buchanan tag (evil guy) -
@gmbucks1 @ProPublica
Reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United 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.#MoneyIsNotSpeech #CorporationsAreNotPeople #MoveToAmend
https://www.movetoamend.org -
@gmbucks1 @ProPublica
Reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United 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.#MoneyIsNotSpeech #CorporationsAreNotPeople #MoveToAmend
https://www.movetoamend.org