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The vast majority of people here advocate for RCV and some occasionally introduce nuance to discuss its pro/cons just to make sure people don’t (mistakenly) think it’ll solve all our problems. You are being needlessly passive aggressive and tilting at windmills in your opening text all because people don’t 100% praise it top to bottom with every comment.
Can you please point to the people making passive-aggressive posts in this thread before you posted this comment?
The first sentence/paragraph from OP
Pre-emptively responding to something they have encountered on Lemmy in the past is not being passive-aggressive. It sounds more like you take offense to the idea that such criticisms should not be pre-empted.
I’m not offended and I think they are mischaracterizing a valid dialogue. They’re picking a fight with people who largely agree with them and are reducing everyone’s point to “don’t bother changing anything until we find a perfect solution,” which is not something I’ve ever seen surrounding RCV. Frankly I’d like to see them show examples. They just seem upset people are discussing the merits as well as the shortcomings, even if most of us still think it should be implemented.
I usually agree with your posts because you are a pretty smart person who I regularly see introduce nuance, so I am surprised to see such a strong reaction from you here.
I only see one person here picking a fight.
This was disappointing but I’ll move on. Clearly this is not going to be productive.
But they're not introducing nuance, they're invoking FUD.
Their arguments aren't, "RCV is way better than FPTP, and it's great that communities are adopting it, but I happen to like this similar system even better. Let me tell you about it." I would love to see discussions like that.
Instead, their arguments are "RCV bad. [Other system] good.". Their arguments play right into the hands of those that want to delay/avoid change so that they can continue to manipulate elections.
Who are “they”? What other systems are they advocating for? All I ever see on Lemmy is people hating FPTP (rightfully so) and in favor of RCV (rightfully so) with the occasional person remarking on limitations or (more commonly in my experience) saying it’s not a magic bullet solution and is only part of comprehensive reform. An kmportant part of it, no doubt, but still a part and a lot of people seem to overestimate RCV‘s ability to save us.
Pointing this out does not make one against RCV.