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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Sep 2016

      I knew about the phenomenon of protest voting, but I didn't realize till this election what terrible candidates it selects.

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Sep 2016

      The only thing worse than a political insider is the sort of candidate you get when people use their vote to protest against insiders.

      2:14 AM - 16 Sep 2016
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        1. Olaf Alex‏ @olaf_alex 16 Sep 2016
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          Olaf Alex Retweeted zatapatique

          https://twitter.com/zatapatique/status/750992029455376385 …

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          zatapatique @zatapatique
          Very few things are more depressing than people too clever by half siding with authoritarians because they mistake them for agents of change
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        1. Kawaii Guillotine of Unrepentent Love‏ @Thurguston1 16 Sep 2016
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          And why our election system sucks. Score voting would be miles better than our current plurality system.

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        1. David Raskino‏ @DavidRaskino 16 Sep 2016
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          anti-establishment voting is populism at its worst but it's happening around the world.

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        2. Audey Isaacs‏ @audeyisaacs 16 Sep 2016
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          y'all are in desperate need of preferential voting. First past the post just isn't democratic(as in democracy).

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        3. Ban Cars  🐝Ⓥ 🥑 🌐₿‏ @CShentrup 16 Sep 2016
          Replying to @audeyisaacs @paulg

          I co-founded the Center for Election Science. We know how to fix this. Help?http://asitoughttobe.com/2010/07/18/score-voting/ …

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        1. Basil Al-Dajane‏ @baldajan 16 Sep 2016
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          "insiders" haven't been helping the poor, & here you have Trump promising to help while haven gotten rich exploiting them

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        1. Ban Cars  🐝Ⓥ 🥑 🌐₿‏ @CShentrup 16 Sep 2016
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          The real story is the voting method that only gives us two viable choices. #GamingTheVote

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        1. EarlyRiser‏ @EarlyRiser4 16 Sep 2016
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          .@paulg Voters who object to corruption and lying should vote accordingly. How can you denigrate that?

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        1. David Stern‏ @dibstern 16 Sep 2016
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          It's a shame the UK had to learn that the hard way.

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        1. getify‏ @getify 16 Sep 2016
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          like obama?

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        1. ejdrouillard‏ @ejdrouillard 16 Sep 2016
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          Obama and Sanders arguably fall into this category.

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        1. Good Will Radley‏ @dcunit3d 16 Sep 2016
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          i concur. but i got a bad feeling about this. good thing hillary & trump were forward thinking. i'm probably going 2vote for johnson

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        1. Tose Nikolov‏ @ToseNikolov 16 Sep 2016
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          The worse the candidate is the more it stalls the system.

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        2. David Harris‏ @cellsatwork 16 Sep 2016
          Replying to @paulg

          Seems direct election of US prez is a permanent global risk. Amazing you've manged to elect relatively sober types until now.

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        3. David Harris‏ @cellsatwork 16 Sep 2016
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          parliamentary democracy ftw! Oops, Brexit.

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        1. Luca Lizzeri‏ @lucaliz 16 Sep 2016
          Replying to @paulg

          and the worst is when that protest candidate gets elected (the Raggi dumpster fire in Rome is an object lesson for Italian voters)

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