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Let's talk about US political changes we want to see (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by jaykrown@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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Seeing as the politics community only allows links to articles, which I think is stupid horseshit. Let's talk openly about changes we want to see here. I think the whole "this isn't the place for politics" is a part of the reason we're in this shit situation. We've let the greedy narcissists take over all discussion while we have no where to reasonably talk about policy.

I'll start with a couple:

End presidential pardon

Raise federal minimum wage to $15

Federal cannabis legalization (buy/sell/grow)

End daylight savings

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I think I've played with your star voting app. I was actually digging into it for this exact use case.

I think an interesting experiment would be a lemmy community that does exactly this. Its something mods have cited as an issue (that its not possible to do).

[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm thinking about how to structure the features. I think the fundamental could be the STAR voting system given that I think it's the most expressive. But the biggest issue would be vote manipulation, such that we'd need a few trusted individuals to act as arbiters, so that votes could be held in such a way that each individual receives one cryptographic key which allows them to cast one ballot.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I'm imagining an admin bot that can be added to a lemmy channel. Something that manages the instance. You set up rules on who can or cant vote/ how votes should come into existence. Then the bot is in the channel, listening and goes through the operations.

The lemvotes API gives us what we would need to manage most of things. Beyond that, as a social experiment, I think we just put it into the hands of the community and see what happens.