your reasons are "someone bad was elected and we repealed it". those are not actual talking points lmao neither actually addresses a positive or negative of ranked choice voting. they're just things that have happened. simply state a list of actual reasons you dislike it.

abortion protection was repealed. that doesn't mean abortion protection is bad, it means people can be stupid.

> The point is I have first hand knowledge and since you didn’t live in ME you don’t.

what does living in Maine have to do with this

> So You think the majority of residents in Burlington are uneducated people…and you don’t care about them.

no, I think whatever small subset of people that disliked ranked voting were mostly just uneducated about the system, like you are.

> I’m a person who has first hand knowledge, which I’m guessing is more than you have in this instance

you have some bullshit made up story backed by nothing

> possibly you’re from ME and I’m wrong…

born, raised, still live in vermont. this is easily the stupidest thing people who live in vermont do: "nice argument but unfortunately you were born 50 miles east of here. ARGUMENT INVALID!"

you have not posted a single reason why ranked choice is bad except vague allusions to "bad mayor got elected using it. we all said it was bad so it's bad."

> I guess ONE point is it was tried and the majority of people didn’t like it...

i don't care the opinion of uneducated people who don't understand how a system works

> Final note, IF the voters actually wanted him to be mayor, they wouldn’t have tossed IRV directly after the election and there wouldn’t have been a push for a recall (which weren’t and still aren’t a thing in Vt). But those things did happen and it’s pretty clear IRV led to a Mayor the people didn’t want.

its pretty clear you're a person who believes stories over knowledge

> I’ll also note, it wasn’t just me that didn’t like the guy, almost no one did

they liked him more than the opponents apparently ! IRV didn't get this guy elected, the people did. you're still not actually making any point

you're not actually saying anything about why it is bad except "guy I dislike got elected using it so it's BAD"

its like arguing first past the post voting is bad because trump won using it. dumb

You're wrong. Whoever is in last doesn't effect the outcome. They are in last, and are eliminated as if they were never in the race in the first place. Whoever voted for that candidate instead now votes for their #2. This is a good thing: it's a feature, not a bug! The person with the most #1 votes can lose, sure, but that is a positive effect of switching systems.

I think you have a misunderstanding of how ranked choice voting works - check out this short video, it's very helpful and will show why it's a good thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE

how do you figure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

here's a good video explaining why first past the post is bad. ranked voting really is just better. here's a video explaining ranked voting, and why it's better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE

will rescinding it be a universally bad thing? yeah

like a diversity statement should be a 20 minute footnote at a meeting. "let's do this, done.". definitely understand not wanting to displace other important agenda items to discuss it.

... but rescinding it? that's a baaad look

local company much higher % of the profit goes to employees. Starbucks fucks over your neighbor so that Charles down in the Florida keys can buy a second boat

yeah, exactly. you've got no idea what you're talking about

no, it doesn't. it has a reputation for how it was 30 years ago, maybe. how often do you go to rutland and actually participate in the town?

fair enough, maybe no logo change could have saved it. raping and pillaging isn't a super cool behavior overall I suppose.

in general... who gives a rats ass. bunch of grown ass adults getting riled up over the high school sports team mascot. lmfao. pick up a football, get a fuckin hobby. jesus christ.

That's a huge shame. I only had one experience there, a buddy took me out last summer/fall one day with his gf. We had a great time just cruising around, and it was not an expensive experience either. Big loss for the area.

Cool, I've lived in Rutland for 24 years and still do. Maybe you lived in one of the bad neighborhoods, and I sympathize with you on that. Every city in Vermont has bad areas. Pretending Rutland is some extra shithole is ridiculous though.

rutland is hella nicer than it was a decade or two ago. rutland is getting much nicer overall. yes, every town has ugly areas, and those are definitely still ugly. no, it is not getting worse overall, not even close.

the sky is not falling.

it's just gonna be Rutland, dumbass. nobody said "let's go Rutland raiders!" before. it was "let's go raiders". now it'll be "let's go Rutland".

don't be obtuse.

it was rooted in some pretty deep racism. if in 2005 they changed the logo to a pirate instead of an arrowhead I bet it would've stuck. whether it's racist now is up for debate, but the native American expert who was brought in to comment said it wasnt super cool.

as a white dude, who am I to argue? who are you to argue?

damn dude. we can keep the racist name and get dunked on for being racist, or we can make a small change that's undeniably not a bad thing and get snarky comments like this. no way to win.

you're totally right. we should rename to the red raiders and go back to the native American costume, because who cares?!?!? makes no difference!!!!

have you been to Vermont before? Rutland isn't some shining beacon of degeneracy. it's pretty par for the course. basically every town in the state gets dunked on for having the exact same rural small town problems.

nah, I don't have aphantasia - that would definitely throw a wrench in things but I'm pretty sure I'm as blandly neurotypical as it gets!

you may see or experience things differently from other people, but you're not going to see Barney appear from thin air

first part maybe, ufo definitely not.

acid doesn't make things appear from nowhere, it just makes things look a little more... fun. stuff breathes, has extra color. there aren't dragons farting out unicorns, this isn't a cheap sitcom

r/replications has some fairly accurate representations.

are there way too many liquor stores in vermont?

see you in 2030!

I'm the same way. I grow my own, but I wouldn't be against picking up for something special, if it wasn't ridiculous prices. Sometimes more variety would be nice.

in this case, "good" is worse than nothing

and I say that as someone in the housing market without somewhere to live, not as someone sitting in my nice single family home that I own.