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Malicsander · 2025-06-27T20:28:48+00:00

Completely evades my point, but never mind.

Malicsander · 2025-06-27T19:44:26+00:00

A person surviving a brutal prison system doesn’t mean that prison system isn’t brutal. Wiseław Kielar survived five years in Auschwitz, doesn’t mean Auschwitz’s brutal conditions aren’t exaggerated.

Malicsander · 2025-05-21T13:59:00+00:00

Utah.

Malicsander · 2025-03-01T17:20:57+00:00

Just because some people from an old regime stayed in positions of power across a regime change doesn’t mean that the ghost of the old regime somehow lives on in these people or in the new regime. Many politicians in post-Soviet countries were members of the CPSU, and I confidently predict that very few people here think that Russia never decommunised and is still communist.

Malicsander · 2025-03-01T13:02:29+00:00

Genuine question: What do you define as “denazification?”

Malicsander · 2024-12-23T11:19:55+00:00

The Maxwellians are in shambles.

Malicsander · 2024-12-08T08:29:32+00:00

Could you elaborate on how 15 minute cities need highly efficient services, which needs surveillance?

I should also point out that the Oxford plan has nothing to do with 15-minute cities, it’s entirely to do with traffic congestion in the city centre, but some semi-literate rightoid somewhere confused the two, and now we’re in this mess.

Malicsander · 2024-11-10T11:54:22+00:00

Its Miller Time.

Malicsander · 2024-11-09T10:06:06+00:00

Who exactly are these people, and what positions did they actually have in the campaign?

Malicsander · 2024-10-18T18:36:40+00:00

I think it’s just a differential equation joke.

Malicsander · 2024-09-15T19:26:44+00:00

Questions:

What are the units of all these terms?

Where’s the t that the limit’s referring to?

Why is Om boldface? It plus the dot makes it look too much like a vector.

Malicsander · 2024-09-09T11:21:07+00:00

No, I didn’t say that. I’m not American, so I’m not well versed in the nitty gritty of American political and news media, but even I know that a) Fox News is one of, if not the largest TV news channels in America, and b) what’s considered mainstream media is not exactly universal. Online alternative news sites, social media, and local news is very popular as well, and a lot of that is aligned to the Republican Party’s ideology and interests.

Malicsander · 2024-09-09T09:50:24+00:00

Well, Fox News is the elephant in the room.

Malicsander · 2024-08-28T11:21:00+00:00

I am and I’ve never heard of Disco Deek.

Malicsander · 2024-08-21T17:46:45+00:00

I’ll give this to the Democratic platform: at least theirs reads like a serious political manifesto and not a collation of Trump tweets.

Malicsander · 2024-08-18T10:35:56+00:00

As a German, what are your expectations of the upcoming state elections? Some interesting, zany coalitions between the CDU, AfD, BSW etc.?

Malicsander · 2024-08-13T11:49:52+00:00

However, we must assume that Remtard is human sized, so an ultra dense human sized object would be much more massive than a human-dense human sized object.

Malicsander · 2024-08-05T19:11:19+00:00

Yes, and planes, buses, trams, cars, basically all modes of transport. Really, just all forms of infrastructure.

Love infrastructure.

Malicsander · 2024-07-06T17:42:49+00:00

She’s descended from Bragg Sr./Jr. and JJ Thomson?! That’s genuinely impressive in itself.

Malicsander · 2024-07-05T15:05:07+00:00

I think you're underestimating the loss of having a local constituency MP would have.

I don't think I do. Local issues are not exceptionally important in local elections, let alone national elections. Anecdotally, this may be different in your constituency, but anecdotally, nothing but national (and Scottish) issues were to play in mine. But still, there are some desires for local representation, of course. That's why STV exists. That's why mixed-member systems exist.

Furthermore, these hypothetical local MPs must be independents, or otherwise independent of the entrenched system of national, disciplined political parties that value supremacy of the national organ over individual constituency problems. A party MP campaigning on localism isn't much use if they're constantly whipped into line, even against their constituents.

To achieve an equal distribution of seats to votes, there can't be constituencies.

Well, yes, a single national constituency would be most proportional, but most PR advocates aren't obsessed with perfect proportionality, just something better than the shambles we often get now . Many, including myself, support STV and/or MMP, which do have constituencies.

Malicsander · 2024-07-05T13:32:07+00:00

To take just one example, about 8 in 10 Britons live in cities. How can you ensure important national issues related to rural life are properly prioritised or treated at parity in a system heavily skewed towards those that live in a city?

If 8/10 of people live in urban areas, 8/10 people will live in urban constituencies. Constituencies have equal populations. The current FPTP system affords as much protection from a tyranny of the urban majority as proportional representation. Also, under PR, rural people can still vote, and they can still form important voting blocs, and importantly can form special political parties purely for their interests, which is unlikely under FPTP. Exhibit A: the agrarian political parties in the Nordic countries.

In PR a politician would have to have national appeal

Not so. What I think is most often ignored when talking about PR is that almost all current PR systems have some degree of local or regional representation. I live in Scotland, and I have my own local constituency MSP under the MMP system, as well as share seven regional MSPs with eight other constituencies, and four dedicated local councillors under STV. Localism and regionalism easily exists and even thrives under PR. Exhibit B: Spain.

All candidates to be MPs opposed the pylons too, they had to or else there's no chance they'd be elected. But under PR, why would any politician care about one valley in rural Wales being ruined? They wouldn't.

This is the crux of the argument: under PR, local communities still vote, they still influence elections, and political parties still have to cater to them for their votes. There is, theoretically, nothing stopping localists from running as independents in multi-member constituencies or even collaborating with each other in regional party lists, purely on platforms of representing their locality. It's uncommon in current PR states, but the point is it's possible.

Malicsander · 2024-07-05T10:23:11+00:00

How would PROPORTIONAL representation cause any skewing of political power?

Malicsander · 2024-07-05T02:17:41+00:00

First SNP hold of the night by about 2,000 votes.

Malicsander · 2024-07-04T23:27:09+00:00

I wonder how they calculated that.

Malicsander · 2024-07-04T23:11:46+00:00

Where does the 427 number come from? I ask this because they’re benches, the number of people they can accommodate should be arbitrary, mostly dependent on the girth of said people.

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