Yes, and they are not required to run in a primary because those are run by each party (being independent means you don't have a party to begin with)
There's no limit (AFAIK) to the number of candidates on the ballot, but there is a deadline to file and that deadline has passed. Cuomo had preemptively filed as an independent candidate in case he didn't win the primary (I think Mamdani did this too), but had not publicly stated whether he would use it until now.
The very first comment:
Unless you believe in magic, the human brain proves that human level general intelligence is possible in our physical universe, running on a system based on the laws of said physical universe. Given that, there's no particular reason to think that "what the brain does" OR a reasonably close approximation, can't be done on another "system based on the laws of our physical universe."
It's actually, "the economic changes they made have no impact on me and instead seem targeted at minorities"
Chalk it up to a half-century of reactionary "welfare queen" propaganda, the truth is that democrats aren't addressing the grievances of the working class and the Republicans are. Those grievances dont just go away if you stop talking about brown and trans people. Even if you're willing to throw them under the bus - those voters will just vote for the person actually running them over.
Either democrats become as fascist as the Republicans, or they break through to those reactionary voters by proving that they're willing to break some billionare kneecaps and make life better for everyone, not just the most visibly impoverished.
Democrats won't, though. They'll fight tooth and nail against the popular energy in their own base in order to keep their tenuous relationship with donors like Ackmann, and that will guarantee their loss.
Of course not, that's some commie shit.
The refrain is more like, "the dems don't actually want to help us, they're just distracting us with performative outrage"
Did you know that it's illegal to say, "I wish someone would kill the president of the united states"?
Im not saying it, im just letting you know that it's illegal. Like a public service announcement.
voting heavily
That's not how that works.
Lesser, greater, middling.
Force ranked choice voting by..... loudly supporting them no matter what they do?
Force is a relative concept, it seems
My BIL who works in ecology asked me why people are freaking out about low birthing rates, because in his area of specialty most people are still talking about the need to slow population growth down.
The amazing thing is that there is no Thalmann. Our Hindenburg is so disliked that nobody has to split the vote for him to lose.
Sorry, how is his post at all about the 'triad'?
Frankly, I think it's the constant attempts at instigating flame wars that I find to be so grating, not the users with opinions I find distasteful. I have no idea what ptz's specific experience was like, but seeing a prominent anti-tanky crusader project their personal vendetta onto this announcement is the kind of shit I find myself constantly rolling my eyes at.
Federated social media is built to facilitate community between people of different preferences, and it's exactly this constant crusading that's likely to extinguish it. You think you're on a mission of purification but it looks more like you're extinguishing what little enthusiasm there was for lemmy to begin with. Defederation is absolutely a tool for moderation, but making it your entire mission to push for it in every space you participate in is itself a suffocating cancer.
Let people decide for themselves what instances they want to commune with and stop pestering the entire platform into reflecting your personal tastes.