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yeah but if you join, and your friends join, and they're friends, you know what nevermind

[Edit] holy shit people I get it, people like it small, take it easy it's just a meme, don't need to keep commenting and DMing

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[–] arthur@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This problem is a property of the way elections are done. Take a look: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

There are alternative voting methods that can solve this. ("Ranked Pairs")[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_pairs] and ("Schulze")[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method] are my favorites, but ("Instant Runoff")[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting] would solve this problem as well.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take a look: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

Isn't that specifically about First Past the Post? (which is mainly only used in places that were once British)

[–] arthur@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

In Brazil we use a 2-round system where, if no one gets the majority, the 2 most voted will run the second turn. And it leads to the same problem.