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drow zelensky@dov.bsky.social |
Realistically I think you should probably expect that a third of the parliament of any European country are likely to be insane people from now on. The goal is to keep that the ceiling. This may be pessimistic but this is linked to that being the proportion of our citizens which are insane
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Gazpacho Soup
@whatsupgazpacho.bsky.social
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Actually it's higher Those who become members of parliament (just with CEOs) are more likely to be psychopaths
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Stephen Bush
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Agree. (Also ideally that insane proportion is diffused through multiple political parties, i.e, don't do stupid shit like Macron's re-elect and go out of your way to destroy the centre-right.)
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Buddha Ferret
@buddhaferret.bsky.social
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Also, welcome to America, guys. Here's your flag T-shirt, your gun, and a voucher for $20 worth of fast food. Sorry, couldn't resist. But it's been that way stateside for at least 30 years. I don't know what it's going to take for humans to get smarter or saner but I'm sick of it.
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Nick, Molly, Dipper and 🌈 Brutus
@knockaboutwok.bsky.social
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Yep. Not just Europe tho. Australia has a PR system, compulsory voting, an independent Electoral Commission and we vote on weekends. Plus, we get a sausage sizzle. Good for keeping the 1/3rd in check (they still sneak into our senate but)
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Martin Delaney 🎹📸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Left or centrist politicians seem unable or afraid to have interesting or entertaining personalities. Like it or not, the current system is about figureheads and relatability. I don’t like it being that way, but left wing blandness is a gift to the right.
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Kristian van der Vliet
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I've been saying it for ages: roughly 20% of the electorate are cunts who will vote for the worst possible people every time. The other 10% are largely apathetic low-information voters going along with the zeitgeist.
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Matti
@mrbtx.bsky.social
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Wish we could keep it to 1/3 over here 🥴
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Alex Cruikshanks
@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
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And in France, some of them are not just insane but also in Seine. I'll see myself out.
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Ordoalea Publishing✅
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We try to keep it not going over 2/3 here. Mainly as we have to fight with: THE WAR™️! BUT OUR RELIGIOUS ROOTED NATION! And now NEW shit to the podium: THE US SAID WE WHITE, SO WE WHITE AND HATE ALL NON WHITE! *rubs temples* We used to be considered progressive and NAM....
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God Slayer
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but дроу зеленський... I am insane
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drow zelensky
@dov.bsky.social
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No way to get around the fact that people mainly vote the way that they think and vote for things they support and against things they are against
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wdtpw
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> ... this is linked to that being the proportion of our citizens which are insane The question, I guess, is whether that proportion is a fixed quantity, or a steadily increasing one
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Erin
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back in the '00s a blogger created the term 'crazification factor' to describe the roughly 20-30% of people who are just utterly disconnected from reality, when out-of-state, last-minute, total-looney canadidate alan keyes won 27% of the Illinois vote against obama it's a long term problem
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Tom Wrongbottom 🍦
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Adam Cain
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I think the ceiling can be reduced. I believe that c.20% of humans, any where, any time, are temperamentally disposed to authoritarianism. The trick is to stop that 20% taking leadership of other blocs - the "mainstream" right (or left) seeking an electoral coalition, or the apolitical.
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James Austin
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As with the US: if X% of your citizens are mad enough to vote for insane people, no democratic system can (or to a extent should) hold out
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