Why should we believe that a more equitable voting system would solve this issue? Or any similar issues?

To be sure, ranked choice voting would result in some improvements to the United States, and should be supported on that basis. But it would do nothing to modify the current structure wherein oligarchs rule the United States with impunity. It’s just that this would empower the neoliberal Democratic oligarchs rather than the fascist Republican oligarchs. Which is harm reduction and is therefore preferable, but is not a meaningful solution - especially to something as entrenched as Zionism

In many ways, Sweden is currently the greatest country on earth.

You should consider yourself to be fortunate

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If that were true then the United States would have been communist by now

It also forces the government to make voting easy.

No it doesn’t. I could easily see Republicans making voting very difficult under such a system, particularly within zip codes that vote for Democrats. This would punish Dem supporters who failed to vote, and would generally make the public hostile to mandatory voting - which would help build public support for the abolition of such mandatory voting

The government is only incentivized to make voting easy if all major parties are loyal to the public. That isn’t the case in the United States

Israel is currently committing a genocide

Israel has killed drastically more Palestinians over the past several decades.

Hamas has never committed genocide. Palestinians have never committed genocide. Israel is currently committing genocide.

Therefore, Israel is clearly worse

Israel is committing genocide today. Hamas has never committed genocide. That means Israel is worse.

Not a close call

Israel is committing genocide. That makes Israel worse

Not even a close call

They’re talking about the 90s and prior, and really are talking about the 70s and prior

It was preclickbait articles written by alternative-adjacent freelance writers.

Aka, real people writing about real things. Some of which were vulgar. But life is vulgar. And so was the internet originally

Treating someone differently on the basis of sex is sexism. Treating someone differently on the basis of race is racism. This isn’t hard

It doesn’t account for socioeconomic disparities, which is a far greater indicator and predictor of crime than race.

It doesn’t acknowledge systemic bias and racism in policing practices, again well documented.

It doesn’t take into account disparities in reporting and data collection.

Ultimately the fbi statistics are in fact questionable for a multitude of reasons, the least of which being that they are direct statistics that don’t take into account underlying causes.

Right and all of these clearly disadvantage black Americans, and specifically black men, for obviously racist reasons.

Why do these not also disfavor men generally for equally bigoted reasons? Are there not fallacious biases regarding the innate criminality of men just as there are fallacious biases regarding the innate criminality of black people?

You know you’re wrong.

Your arguments are the arguments of the white supremacist and the segregationist. It is hate speech. And it is dangerous and is unprotected by the First Amendment and by the Terms of Service

You’re saying that the FBI crime statistics demonstrating that more crimes per capita are committed by black Americans than any other race are fabricated?

If so, then shouldn’t we similarly disbelieve all similar demographic data?

If not, then shouldn’t we segregate black Americans away from the rest of us?

The point is that you are making the arguments of a white supremacist and a segregationist

Empirical data, and the experiences of Whites everyday, makes the caution reasonable. It is not bigotry for Whites to be cautious around Blacks, especially strange Blacks but even with Blacks that Whites know (80% of rapes are perpetuated by someone the victim knows). Trust is earned and the default should always be caution, especially when the person you’re dealing with holds any sort of power over you (physical strength, etc.).

Literally you rn

When there’s a preponderance of empirical evidence that a certain group of people poses a larger risk to another group of people, it validates the decision to approach them with caution.

Literally Nazi rationale for 1930s Germany. Or White Americans justification for segregation. Or Israeli justification for genocide against Palestinians

People are people. Immutable traits have no influence on how anyone should ever be treated

Being wary of strange people is one thing. Being wary of strange people who only have (insert immutable trait) is bigotry and is always wrong.

This is kindergarten level shit

It isn’t obtuse to state with moral clarity that it is always wrong to treat someone differently on the basis of their sex