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David Brooks has a column out today called One Reform to Save America". What that reform is... may surprise you. It's good!
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pospysyl posted:David Brooks has a column out today called One Reform to Save America". What that reform is... may surprise you. It's not bad. Not that it's good.
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Jun 1, 2018 02:51
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while it’s astonishing that so many countries including the usa still use a system as fundamentally broken as fptp, a preferential voting system is not a cure all. see for example my country australia, where despite having what i would say one of the best voting systems in the world (mandatory voting including laws requiring employers to give time off to vote, robust postal/early voting mechanisms, preferential voting in both houses, proportional representation (though only in one house), independent drawing of electoral boundaries), politicians are still shitheads.
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Jun 1, 2018 03:00
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pospysyl posted:David Brooks has a column out today called One Reform to Save America". What that reform is... may surprise you. The amusing thing is that while his conclusion is something good, the problems he identifies are totally absurd (American politics becoming too "extreme," and there being four primary parties of liberal/conservative Republicans and Democrats respectively).
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Jun 1, 2018 03:08
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Ytlaya posted:The amusing thing is that while his conclusion is something good, the problems he identifies are totally absurd (American politics becoming too "extreme," and there being four primary parties of liberal/conservative Republicans and Democrats respectively). Exactly. The symptoms he identifies are dumb, both in terms of what is actually a problem ("lost faith in norms" being one) and when they actually became problems (when exactly were we at peak democracy?) but he understands the underlying issue that he thinks causes those imaginary symptoms.
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Jun 1, 2018 03:22
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BBJoey posted:while it’s astonishing that so many countries including the usa still use a system as fundamentally broken as fptp, a preferential voting system is not a cure all. see for example my country australia, where despite having what i would say one of the best voting systems in the world (mandatory voting including laws requiring employers to give time off to vote, robust postal/early voting mechanisms, preferential voting in both houses, proportional representation (though only in one house), independent drawing of electoral boundaries), politicians are still shitheads. People are shitheads op This is still a good reform though
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Jun 1, 2018 03:44
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BBJoey posted:while it’s astonishing that so many countries including the usa still use a system as fundamentally broken as fptp, a preferential voting system is not a cure all. see for example my country australia, where despite having what i would say one of the best voting systems in the world (mandatory voting including laws requiring employers to give time off to vote, robust postal/early voting mechanisms, preferential voting in both houses, proportional representation (though only in one house), independent drawing of electoral boundaries), politicians are still shitheads. Yeah but it's Australia everyone is a shithead
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Jun 1, 2018 04:35
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any solution that isn't early Soviet democracy won't solve anything hth
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Jun 1, 2018 04:36
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i enjoyed this linequote:The process also means that people with minority views in their region have a greater chance to be represented in Congress. A district in Southern California, for example, might elect a Bernie Sanders-type progressive, a centrist business Democrat and a conservative. because he's dumb enough to think that a location that democrats always win incredibly bigly would somehow elect any republicans instead of three democrats. if 60% of the population in a district would never vote for a say a republican under any circumstance, ranked choice voting isnt going to let republicans win any seats unless the majority doesnt run a complete slate for some reason (lets put aside for the moment that not contesting every election is something the democrats do all the time). ranked choice voting is good because it would allow people to avoid tactical voting where people compromise their beliefs to vote for someone who has a better shot of winning, but i think this is the first time where i read someone say that the belief people are compromising is centrism and the more electable candidates are the ones at the fringes. basically brooks begins the article by noting that the parties are starkly ideologically opposed with great distance between them then spends the rest of the article ignoring that and supposing that in reality everyone wants to vote for moderates
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Jun 1, 2018 05:52
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parliamentary systems are better and more democratic, but europe has them and their democratic "socialist" governments are going full neoliberal by kissing the rear end of bankers while pushing austerity for everyone else
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Jun 1, 2018 11:11
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comedyblissoption posted:parliamentary systems are better and more democratic, but europe has them and their democratic "socialist" governments are going full neoliberal by kissing the rear end of bankers while pushing austerity for everyone else That doesn't mean that political reforms don't matter. The electoral college put trump in office for example
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Jun 1, 2018 11:17
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I'm saying you can't have democracy under capitalism
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Jun 1, 2018 11:18
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comedyblissoption posted:I'm saying you can't have democracy under capitalism 
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Jun 1, 2018 11:21
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https://twitter.com/HannaIngber/status/1002564320700530691?s=19
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Jun 1, 2018 19:34
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The paper of record
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Jun 1, 2018 19:35
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lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Jun 1, 2018 19:38
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ahahahahaha
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Jun 1, 2018 21:50
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https://twitter.com/7im/status/1002616436752150535?s=21 https://twitter.com/samestevetignor/status/1002622911138729990?s=21
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lol https://twitter.com/nytnational/status/1002658577620840448?s=21 lmao they deleted it but the ratio bot screen capped it https://twitter.com/ratiobot69/status/1002666327188951040?s=21 linked to this article: https://nyti.ms/2LdMVPv Wraith of J.O.I. has issued a correction as of 23:14 on Jun 1, 2018 |
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Jun 1, 2018 22:55
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oh they already talked about that six months ago so they'll never have to make white people feel bad about it ever again. sounds about right
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Jun 1, 2018 23:21
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The failing... Los Angeles Times? https://twitter.com/latimes/status/...r%3D2544%23pti4
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Jun 2, 2018 01:55
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lol I stopped reading at quote:Although Peterson can sound like a chauvinistic crank when he seems to suggest that women incite sexual harassment by wearing makeup to the office,
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Jun 2, 2018 01:57
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Grand Prize Winner posted:The failing... Los Angeles Times? lol dat ratio
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Jun 2, 2018 01:59
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quote:Cathy Young is a contributing editor at Reason. lol also i remember like a month after the election, when LA times' travel editor decided it would be a good idea to post two bald-faced ahistorical letters to the editor from two mad whiteys whining about an article saying japanese-american internment wasn't that bad, and hell was done to protect them
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Jun 2, 2018 02:01
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Grand Prize Winner posted:The failing... Los Angeles Times? "let's dig into that incel market" *gets blown up by incel*
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Jun 2, 2018 02:06
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an actual dog posted:the failing LA times
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Jun 2, 2018 02:08
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just mainstreaming libertarians is all
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Jun 2, 2018 03:12
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we are almost at neo-feudal hell world level just a matter of the next crash shaking off the illusion
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Jun 2, 2018 03:18
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lmao of course i wonder how many women actually work at reason
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Jun 2, 2018 03:41
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https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1002623617606324224
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Jun 3, 2018 04:50
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Jesus loving Christ.
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Jun 3, 2018 04:55
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lol hersh has always come off as loving nuts
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Jun 3, 2018 09:19
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Many of the same conclusions. Not that over 4,000 people died, but you know, other conclusions.
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Jun 3, 2018 18:42
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pospysyl posted:Many of the same conclusions. Not that over 4,000 people died, but you know, other conclusions. Look, basically any number bigger than about 20 is the same number.
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https://twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/1003337561169977345
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Jun 3, 2018 21:06
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Seymour Hersh views women as objects, you say? I guess he and Jordan Peterson have much in common. Horseshoe theory has issued a correction as of 00:27 on Jun 4, 2018 |
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docbeard posted:Look, basically any number bigger than about 20 is the same number. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkP_OGDCLY0
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