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9 votes
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Norway's fossil fuel bonanza stokes impassioned debate about how best to spend its 'war profits'
4 votes -
Government refuses to fund UK students at new medical school despite ‘chronic’ doctor shortage
6 votes -
Molly Nilsson wants a world with no billionaires – synthpop icon speaks about the future of creative pursuits in a neoliberal world
3 votes -
India police detain students gathered to watch BBC documentary on Narendra Modi
8 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 23
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5 votes -
Brazil and Argentina to start preparations for a common currency
10 votes -
Why the ground under Colorado solar panels is ripe for growing food
7 votes -
An overview of how, and why, Taiwan’s Kuomintang dictatorship willingly embraced democracy
5 votes -
Denmark has managed to anger the Evangelical Lutheran Church and hundreds of thousands of Danish voters – all because of a public holiday
6 votes -
Brazil launches first anti-deforestation raids under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva bid to protect Amazon
8 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 16
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6 votes -
UK government to block Scottish gender bill
8 votes -
Much of what you've heard about Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan is wrong
11 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 9
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4 votes -
Sweden and France could be set to join forces to build new nuclear power stations in the Nordic nation
5 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 2
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11 votes -
Battle for the nation's soul – Norway faces debate about gas and oil wealth
8 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 26
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10 votes -
The year woke broke: A brief history of a contested word
2 votes -
The Full January 6th Comittee Report
11 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 19
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6 votes -
Japan to invest in nuclear energy in major policy shift
8 votes -
Finland defence minister to take two months' paternity leave amid NATO bid – Antti Kaikkonen says 'children are only little for a moment'
8 votes -
We look into the implications of a bill that could classify loot boxes as gambling, and what it could mean for the Finnish games industry
4 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 12
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9 votes -
White House Plumbers | Official teaser
1 vote -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 5
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8 votes -
Brittney Griner released by Russia in one-for-one prisoner swap for arms dealer Viktor Bout
5 votes -
South Koreans are getting a year younger, parliament rules
12 votes -
Peru's president says will dissolve Congress, calls for elections
8 votes -
Germany arrests twenty-five accused of plotting coup
10 votes -
What does an "optimal" democratic system look like to you?
this is kind of an offshoot of this thread which is still going, because i'm noticing an interesting pattern in that thread of reform to the system going beyond just the voting age, and i think...
this is kind of an offshoot of this thread which is still going, because i'm noticing an interesting pattern in that thread of reform to the system going beyond just the voting age, and i think it's worth examining that in much broader, larger details than just being centered around how people respond to the idea of voting age because democracy is very multi-dimensional. here are a few questions to jump off of; feel free to utilize them or not utilize them as you wish.
(let's also assume that there are no constraints whatsoever, for maximum possibility here. essentially, you get to invent a system that is utilized by people on the spot regardless of how things are currently for them.):
- Is this democratic system liberal, like most are (or perhaps illiberal in the service of some greater aim like climate change)?
- What variety of democracy is utilized by the system? (there are a lot of these ranging from classic representative democracy to direct democracy to soviet-style council democracy to sortition to more esoteric things like cellular, grassroots, and liquid democracy. see wikipedia for more)
- What voting method (FPTP, IRV, preferential voting, etc. again see wikipedia), is used by the system, if any? Or are things done mostly or largely without voting where possible, as is true in participatory, deliberative and consensus democracies and similar systems?
- Are formal political parties allowed in this system?
- Is voting in this system compulsory?
- Are certain people in this system (criminals, older people, younger people, certain groups or professions of people perhaps even) disenfranchised?
- Does the government have a hand in educating people on voting in this system, or is it the civic duty of people instead, or is there some in between, or even neither? What does that education look like?
and, if you'd like to get particularly esoteric or wonky, you might also choose to answer or consider some of these:
- Are voters allowed to do things like recall their representatives, or is the will of the people binding for a term?
- Does democracy in this system extend to even things like cabinet positions, which in most systems are determined by the head of state?
- Does democracy in this system include things like amendments to constitutions?
16 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 28
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8 votes -
Indonesia set to make sex outside marriage an offense punishable with jail time
8 votes -
Protesters openly urge Xi Jinping to resign over China Covid curbs
25 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 21
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8 votes -
Two pro wrestlers developed ‘The Progressive Liberal’ to be the bad guy at matches. Then the atmosphere turned far darker.
6 votes -
How Qatar bought the World Cup
5 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 14
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11 votes -
A theme park crisis is wrecking South Korea’s bond market
3 votes -
Carrying out executions took a secret toll on workers — then changed their politics
10 votes -
All people are created educable, a vital oft-forgotten tenet of modern democracy
14 votes -
Slovenia elects first woman president in a runoff vote
5 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 7
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15 votes -
About political messages on the Rust blog
8 votes -
In Finland, where forests cover around 75% of land, the EU's upcoming biodiversity strategy has sparked outrage in the forestry industry, as well as the government
6 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 31
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9 votes -
Researchers have been given a £420,000 grant to explore the potential use of a blockchain-based voting system in Greenland
3 votes -
Just days after promising advertisers that Twitter would not be a “free-for-all,” Elon Musk promoted a right-wing rumor about the vicious hammer assault on Paul Pelosi
29 votes