Tennessee congressional candidate Adam Heimerman was arrested for shooting four Flock Safety ALPR cameras, facing felony vandalism charges in the same district debating the tech.
  • Bwaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 hour ago

    He’d get my vote. ( If I were so unfortunate to have tolive in Tennessee)

  • AnotherUsername@lemmy.mlEnglish
    27·
    3 hours ago

    So what you’re saying is he’s a first amendment supporter with good aim who isn’t afraid to take direct action against federal surveillance overreach, right? I think you could sell this to the Republicans as a candidate just as easily as to the Democrats.

    • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
      13·
      3 hours ago

      I think you mean 2nd Amendment, 1st is free speech. The 2nd is right to bear arms. But you’re otherwise 100% correct. If I were in the district/state he would have my vote. If we can put a pedophile in the White House, we can surely put this guy in Congress.

  • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zipEnglish
    183·
    3 hours ago

    Did you guys know that when you vote for state primaries you have to choose which political party to get the choices for and you don’t see any other choices?

    So this guy being independent, you would only ever get to vote for him if you picked the independent ballot and then you couldn’t vote for any of the democrats who are the only real chances to actually win against republicans and unseat them.

    You get, Democratic, Republican, Independent, Green Party or Issues Only. That’s it.

    Whole thing’s fucking rigged man.

    • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
      31·
      2 hours ago

      Well, yeah, that’s kind of obvious. In primary elections you are deciding which candidate in a given party is going to be their candidate in the general election. It would make no sense for them to have independent candidates on their primary ballot. Since independent candidates, by definition, will not be a party’s candidate.

      • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 minute ago

        Yeah but this pretty much reinforces a two party system with virtually no hope of it ever changing.

        What if I wanted to vote for a Democratic treasurer or whatever but wanted an independent state legislature that can’t happen unless I ONLY vote for ALL the independent options.

        That’s a horrible, rigged system that needs thrown away and changed.

        Why not an R or a D or an I next to all the runners names? Why am I locked in on one party or NOTHING? It’s crazy man

    • titanicx@lemmy.zipEnglish
      32·
      3 hours ago

      I mean that’s kind of how it works. A primary is simply a primary between that particular party’s candidates. So you’re not going to be choosing this guy for Democrat ballot if you’re an independent. I’m an independent and I’m not voting in the Democrat or Republican primaries. However in the general election I can then choose whatever candidate I want to select. I’ve never heard of an independent primary but then again most Independence are not listed as a specific political party. Because independent is not a political party it is a non-affiliation.

      • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Fyi, if your state (like Tennessee) has open primaries, you could choose to vote in one to support their worst candidate. Both major parties ask their voters do this sometimes to improve their odds in the general election.

        • titanicx@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          13 minutes ago

          That’s interesting I didn’t even know that any states actually had open primaries like this. I’ve only got experience voting in two different states and neither one of them have open primaries.

      • DudleyMason@lemmy.mlEnglish
        43·
        2 hours ago

        I mean that’s kind of how it works

        And since you didn’t immediately follow that with “and that’s why the entire worthless system needs to be dismantled with prejudice” I stopped reading.

        That being “how it works” is a part of the problem.

        • titanicx@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          14 minutes ago

          What an idiotic statement. Yeah the system sucks it needs to be fixed it’s fucking broken. We need more than two actual parties in this system. However it’s the system we have and it’s the system we have to work in so immediately stopping reading is the stupidest fucking thing you can do. Get registered fucking vote quit bitching and whining unless you’re part of the system and trying to change it.