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Just wait till they gamify electronic voting - "Congratulations, you've just earned your Junior Progressive badge! Vote for two more progressive candidates to

Just wait till they gamify electronic voting - "Congratulations, you've just earned your Junior Progressive badge! Vote for two more progressive candidates to level up!"

iudqnolq 7y ago
"they"? What makes you certain progressives will control election infrastructure? And the same officials who would set the text of the app currently oversee the descriptions of the issues on the ballot that each voter gets. Can you point to a single case of any progressive politician using their power to manipulate those descriptions? I don't believe any politician has done so in the last 50 years, from either party. Do you have evidence that I'm wrong, or do you have any other evidence that the election infrastructure being so blatantly abused is at all plausible?
- joejerryronnie 7y ago
  I wasn’t calling out progressives in particular, just using that as an example. Feel free to swap out progressive with Trumpster or libertarian. This isn’t a critique of political manipulation or abuse. It’s a comment on where we’re going as a society. We’ll gladly accept things like this for just a bit more convenience and dopamine.
- tatersolid 7y ago
  > Can you point to a single case of any progressive politician using their power to manipulate those descriptions? Pretty much every ballot initiative in the last 50 years of the state of Illinois. Search “Illinois Democratic machine” for the history of the abuses. One recent ballot initiative I recall read “do you support improvements to water reclamation infrastructure of Cook County at the cost of $X bond issue”. It did not mention that the full text of the measure drastically increased the number and salaries of democratic party appointees in the water dept and they would get guaranteed life pensions at 80% of salary. When a single party has most of the government positions, election corruption abounds.

Just wait till they gamify electronic voting - "Congratulations, you've just earned your Junior Progressive badge! Vote for two more progressive candidates to level up!"

iudqnolq 7y ago

"they"? What makes you certain progressives will control election infrastructure? And the same officials who would set the text of the app currently oversee the descriptions of the issues on the ballot that each voter gets. Can you point to a single case of any progressive politician using their power to manipulate those descriptions? I don't believe any politician has done so in the last 50 years, from either party. Do you have evidence that I'm wrong, or do you have any other evidence that the election infrastructure being so blatantly abused is at all plausible?

joejerryronnie 7y ago
I wasn’t calling out progressives in particular, just using that as an example. Feel free to swap out progressive with Trumpster or libertarian. This isn’t a critique of political manipulation or abuse. It’s a comment on where we’re going as a society. We’ll gladly accept things like this for just a bit more convenience and dopamine.
tatersolid 7y ago
> Can you point to a single case of any progressive politician using their power to manipulate those descriptions? Pretty much every ballot initiative in the last 50 years of the state of Illinois. Search “Illinois Democratic machine” for the history of the abuses. One recent ballot initiative I recall read “do you support improvements to water reclamation infrastructure of Cook County at the cost of $X bond issue”. It did not mention that the full text of the measure drastically increased the number and salaries of democratic party appointees in the water dept and they would get guaranteed life pensions at 80% of salary. When a single party has most of the government positions, election corruption abounds.