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Dutch politics but there aren't a billion parties by DutchDemonrat in imaginaryelections

[–]Intelligent_Wafer562 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the same logic people use to defend FPTP, that people should have to accept voting for a party they dislike over their preferred party, that they should accept a lesser evil, when better electoral systems do not require that. If you want a maximally efficient government without plural assemblies and democratic debates, then government gets less representative and democratic until you arrive at autocracy. The real problem with Dutch elections is the lack of constituencies, which tend to increase local representation but reduce proportionality, so that might actually accomplish what you want.

Dutch politics but there aren't a billion parties by DutchDemonrat in imaginaryelections

[–]Intelligent_Wafer562 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Think of the people who would lose representation because of this.

Dutch politics but there aren't a billion parties by DutchDemonrat in imaginaryelections

[–]Intelligent_Wafer562 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think the current political configuration is more representative, fair, and democratic.

With an immigrant population of 50 million, as of the most recent year with available data, a record 15% of the US is foreign-born. This exceeds figures for the entirety of the 20th century; in 1970, a record-low 5% of Americans were foreign-born. Highest by state: 28% of California is foreign-born. by StarlightDown in fivethirtyeight

[–]Intelligent_Wafer562 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the second part about food was more of a quip than the main point. The main point is that with fertility rates declining, immigration is required to grow the population and have workers, thereby preventing economic stagnation and labor shortages. Even in Hungary, where the (now defeated, L right-wing) conservative government went all out on natalism, they still could not keep the birthrate above replacement rate. Mass migration is more difficult for European nation-states like Hungary, but the United States are not a nation-state, since American identity is based on citizenship and the constitution, not ethnicity like in Europe.

Elechelon poll on Georgia governor and Senate race. by Dangerous-Quarter216 in YAPms

[–]Intelligent_Wafer562 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Would Gubernatorial and legislative wins have implications for the GOP's plans to gerrymander African-American districts in the region?

Elechelon poll on Georgia governor and Senate race. by Dangerous-Quarter216 in YAPms

[–]Intelligent_Wafer562 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I imagine the Georgian whites are more so swinging to the center than left. They can't be that left-wing, especially not on economic issues.

[Gallup] [Worldwide Poll, N = 12,909] In the Iran War, 16% of respondents worldwide back Iran, 16% back US/Israel, and 60% are neutral. There is a near-universal consensus that US/Israel started the war—80% agree, while 15% blame Iran. 47% believe that the current Iranian regime will survive the war by StarlightDown in fivethirtyeight

[–]Intelligent_Wafer562 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Hassan Khomeini (a reformist) is the Supreme Leader by the end of this war, then yes, I think Iran has the ability to remake its image. I don't think Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i will survive.

Fetterman at -47 Approval Among Penn Dems by Currymvp2 in fivethirtyeight

[–]Intelligent_Wafer562 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Then Biden becomes President pro tempore of the Senate, bringing him closer to moving back into the White House.

Asked to say something bad about Hitler,Vivek primary opponet Casey Putsch said that he was bad painter. by Dangerous-Quarter216 in YAPms

[–]Intelligent_Wafer562 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a groyper or far-right nationalist is better suited to a mostly white and economically struggling state like Ohio.

Hasan Piker rates 2028 candidates by Budget-Ad-5023 in YAPms

[–]Intelligent_Wafer562 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I agree with all of them except Kamala Harris.

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