Again, I’m not talking about parties merging.

Conflicts of interest and professional sport pretty much go hand in hand anyway

Sauce:

https://old.reddit.com/r/subreddit_simulacrum/comments/10yhcf7/sirona_ryan_is_not_canonically_transgender_the/

"We paid 7.2 millions for it, I sold it for 10 millions, tremendous profit! It’s the best deal ever!

30 eggs

Organic

About 10$ for the same thing if they’re not organic

Yes, actually, this was the whole point all along!! I’m glad we agree on one thing.

Then why share a post that says the best way to protect ourselves against authoritarianism is an electoral reform?

Well yeah, Cajun is a creole language mixing French and English, which is different from the accent people from Louisiana might have when speaking English proper.

Red scare but with a government siding with Russia this time!

Say what you will about those stupid movies, I miss them…

Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, Mel Brooks, the early Jim Carrey comedies, Police Academy…

Then why post about PR protecting us from authoritarianism if you agree that it doesn’t?

English is my second language, I’ve got the top bilingual score at work, still can’t watch Trainspotting without subtitles…

Anglo Canada’s and US history is the same from the late 16th century until US’ Independence in the late 18th century… Then it was just the same thing but by two different countries.

Even with the current limit they can help Ukraine quite a lot without hurting their long term goal too much.

I didn’t move the goalpost, I just didn’t use the word you wanted me to use in my previous message even though we both knew that’s what I was talking about.

My point is that PR isn’t the panacea that some people make it sound like. If the population votes like idiots you still get an idiotic government. Better education and censorship of extremist ideas (like they do in French Belgium) would protect us much more than a different electoral system.

Quebec is one of the places with the most parental benefits in the world, you can even make money by having kids if you’re careful with your spendings, fertility rate is 1.5

People get a year off work with most of their salary paid by the government, then they get child benefits until the kids turn 18, school is super cheap, guaranteed pension fund for everyone…

Sure you have to deal with other issues that might get in the way of your career, but as I mentioned in another comment, unless you force women to stop working and make them depend on the State or their spouse (and making divorce illegal), you’re not reversing that trend… And I sure hope that’s not something you’re ready to do.

It’s a very small minority of women that will take a chance and become 100% dependent on others in case shit happens, the only reason they did back in the day was because they didn’t have a choice… by law! No body authority unless their father was dead and they weren’t married? Well no shit they’ll stay home and raise the kids, they can’t even open a bank account!

Give women equality and make contraception legal? Well turns out they don’t want to have to deal with all the stress that comes with raising children! Just like men!

If all far right parties end up getting a couple of seats through PR or FPTP, it’s only a matter of time before they unite in order to have more seats under the same brand to increase their visibility. PR doesn’t protect us from authoritarianism if most of the population votes for it or for parties that might work with the authoritarians.

PR is just that, more proportional and more representative of the population’s will, but if the right is what the population wants (no matter how they were convinced to vote for it), that’s what the whole country gets. The only consolation is that “Welp, that’s what people wanted 🤷”

I’m talking about both parties existing but the one that gets the least votes in a riding gets out of the way so the other one gets the seat instead of the fringe alternative.

Exactly like the left did in France.

In one riding the Liberals would get the seat, in another it would be the NDP and in another it would be the Greens and in another it would be the Bloc, in the end the goal is to block the Conservatives. Make it a habit for the parties that are closer to the center and I’m sure most people here won’t care about PR anymore.

The post is about protecting ourselves from authoritarianism, I’m just showing that PR doesn’t necessarily do that, if the majority of people vote right and far right (like in Germany) then you can say “it’s more democratic!” all you want, in the end you’re one handshake away from authoritarianism.

Still not proportional and relies on FPTP to determine who takes power, they just eliminate some of the smaller parties during the electoral process.

Looks like a nice hobby though

(Man did I piss off my colleague when saying that)