We need ranked choice voting so people can vote for who they actually want without throwing away they vote. The problem is opposing ranked choice voting is one of very few issues both parties agree on, since it hurts both of them.

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The former might not be true either. China has 1.7M listed, but if you include 1M to 3M in forced vocational education and training centers, the count would be higher than the 1.8M in the US. The rate would still be lower though.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/01/china-documents-uighur-genocidal-sterilization-xinjiang/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-concentrationcamps/china-putting-minority-muslims-in-concentration-camps-us-says-idUSKCN1S925K/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200728165111/https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/01/china-documents-uighur-genocidal-sterilization-xinjiang/

Then say the country with the latest prison population, not the highest incarceration rate, since the latter just isn’t true.

Is OP from El Salvador? Wikipedia is showing the top five are El Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, the US in that order.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate#Incarceration_rates_and_counts https://prisonstudies.org/

People will vote for what they like, not what’s good faith.

I think it’s also a reference to the bavarian flag.

Hence why their logo is 3 tuning forks.

This guy was only killed afterwards after being taken away, but plenty of other people we shot or run over right behind him.

Full vid: https://youtu.be/YeFzeNAHEhU

Isn’t the guy at the zeroith table?

Those are all Stalin’s public statements. It looks good to downplay your cult. But he still undoubtedly had one.

Lennan for example seemed to pretty strongly oppose a cult of personality forming around him. But Stallin didn’t, just some humble public statements.

But was that risk to their power from a armed revolution, or from their proponents getting voted out?

Do you agree that Mau and Stallin extensively purged political opponent?

Do you agree that Stalin and Mau created cults of personality?

So do you think people should vote or not?

The book you linked seemed to be a explicitly Communist reexamining. I wouldn’t really go to that for unbiased history. But anyway.

Do you agree that Stalin and Mau created cults of personality?

Soviet Russia and China were nominally a democracies, but both were controlled by individuals without checks. Stallin and Mau respectively. Again, what history books are you reading that is saying otherwise?

It seemed like you were suggesting in your original comment that voting was futile and that we needed a revolution instead.

USSR and PRC had really bad checks and balances since they let dictators consolidate power and form cults of personality. You really think those are good examples of your point? Have you read entirely different histories than I have? Which books do you recommend then?

You have suggestions for books? I’m not going to be able to read more than a couple of pages in the middle of this conversation, but maybe after we’re done?

My point is I don’t think you should be advocating starting revolution till that opinion is close to a majority.