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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social |
The Brits called an election on May 22 and it happened on July 4. Imagine that kind of election cycle. Fellow Americans, fantasize with me about what that kind of political and media environment is like.
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Policy_g
@policyg.bsky.social
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I can’t even imagine how much better the British system is compared to ours in every way.
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@dyatesswfl.bsky.social
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They're also campaigning to an electorate that is about 1/5th the size of the United States(?).
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Phil
@keeptheskyblue.bsky.social
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Maybe just trash the entire U.S. government system and start over; it's broken as all hell. ⚖️🗑️👍🏻
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Wundae The Next
@wundae.bsky.social
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The U.S. system would work fine, for any non-American population.
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Lars
@zuur.com
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The fact that Starmer will enter 10 Downing Street *today* is also kinda amazing. (Our new far right coalition government took months to assemble and won't last the year I'm sure)
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Little Gems
@lettucewrangler.bsky.social
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We should go 4 years, then start rolling a D-20 on the first of each month. 17+ gets an election in 4 months
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costrike
@costrike.bsky.social
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I don't mean to be weird, but keep talking dirty to me
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John Halloran
@profhalloran.bsky.social
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I’m in Great Britain at the moment, and let me tell you another thing: Election was yesterday. Poking around the country for the last week there were relatively few political signs and no political television commercials. The election was in the news, but it wasn’t all the news.
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Firk
@theflyingfirk.bsky.social
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I very much would like not hearing this garbage for 18 months.
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Robert Atkins
@ratkins.net
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Can you imagine how much better it would be for _the rest of the world_, not having every single piece of media, social and otherwise, saturated with bullshit we can’t influence but have a massive stake in the outcome of?
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Robin Marwick
@electricland.bsky.social
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As a Canadian, can confirm, it’s pretty great
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Simon Tomes
@simontomes.com
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And ironically as a Brit it felt like a really long campaign. I was like, c’mon just get to polling day will you. Four weeks max limit would be good.
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David Morton
@dhmorton.bsky.social
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Six whole weeks. It felt like *forever*. We need to get it down to four at most.
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Kevin Murphy
@kcm74.bsky.social
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The distances are smaller there, which helps. I'm not averse to this plan and US cycles are far too long, but there's something to said for several months. If we had this system, Biden would be totally cooked. Here in the US, we still have four months to right the ship.
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Adrian Giddings
@cunabula.bsky.social
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It's also a damn sight cheaper, but then again I've always assumed the media spend part of US elections is part of the design.
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