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Man changes name to Literally Anybody Else and announces US presidential run (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A Texas man has legally changed his name to Literally Anybody Else and announced he is running for US president in the 2024 election.

Formerly known as Dustin Ebey, the 35-year-old is a US army veteran and seventh-grade math teacher in the suburbs of Dallas, and now has a Texas driver’s license to prove his name change.

He said he wanted to change his name because he was unsatisfied with this year’s presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

“Three hundred million people can do better,” he said in reference to the two frontrunners for the nation’s highest office. “There really should be some outlet for people like me who are just so fed up with this constant power grab between the two parties that just has no benefit to the common person.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if we'll ever get out from under the boot of the two-party system. Yang's Forward Party is trying and they're supposedly making progress, but man I just feel so tired and jaded at this point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can't get out of a 2 party system with having a fptp voting system. If you want change, it's going to have to come from the bottom up. Work local politics to change the voting system. Only then do we have a hole of dismantling the two parties.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That's exactly what the Forward Party is doing, as I understand it. Local level, working their way up. And like I said to the other person, I want to be hopeful because I get updates about local candidates running and winning local elections, but it's hard to know what's truth and what's propaganda.

Also from what I understand, what they were trying to implement is ranked choice voting, though it's been years since I delved into it and don't actually know if they're still trying to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lmao sure it is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Why downvote? That's exactly what I'm saying. I get news updates saying this person and that person have been elected at the local level, and the work is slow but supposedly they're chipping away at the problem. I want to be hopeful but find myself wondering if it's just propaganda.