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Live election results: Super Tuesday 2020
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If the US removed FPTP and the electoral college, what new parties would pop up?
(You could replace FPTP with STV to keep the districts that elect representatives in the house intact.) I'll start. The Democratic party breaks up into the neoliberal and progressive parties. The...
(You could replace FPTP with STV to keep the districts that elect representatives in the house intact.)
I'll start.
The Democratic party breaks up into the neoliberal and progressive parties.
The neoliberal party is where centrist candidates like Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg go.
The progressive party is where progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren go.
The Republican party might lose a large part of their electorate to the libertarians, since many Republicans are more concerned about letting business prevail and don't really want cultural conservatism.
Andrew yang maybe also leaves the Democrats and founds his own party, the party for online reform.
The greens also become significantly more popular but they may have too much in common with the progressives.
The Senate could be changed to include as many seats as the house for proper representation.
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Bogus automated copyright claims by CBS blocked Super Tuesday speeches by Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, and Joe Biden
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Here's how Biden and Sanders stack up when it comes to how they would govern the tech industry
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The awakening of Norman Rockwell
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The twenty-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained
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If you were to run for president in your country, what would your platform be?
I'm Brazilian, and personally (in the most radical, electability-indifferent and honestly meme-y campaign) would go for Bernie with the campaign finance and tax reform but with a platform for...
I'm Brazilian, and personally (in the most radical, electability-indifferent and honestly meme-y campaign) would go for Bernie with the campaign finance and tax reform but with a platform for civical reform like putting STV as the nomination method for our chamber of deputies and supporting automating or funding new technologies to replace menial labor, like funding lab grown meat to replace all farming companies and labor now or robotics to automate large parts of the industrial and service sectors and use that money saved from not paying wages to people doing bad jobs to fund free universities and better schools/wages/welfare/infrastructure to the people once doing that work, along with adding civics and economics as subjects in school and always including notes as to where do you use the content you're learning, along with requiring subsidiaries to go independent or drop their branding. Clearly this isn't very realistic so feel free to expouse absurd policy.
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Putin introduces constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage and mentioning God
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Public Enemy fires Flavor Flav after Bernie Sanders rally spat
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Three cheers for socialism - Christian love and political practice
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Which US presidential candidate do you think has the best foreign policy?
The nice thing about electability being uncertain is that you can choose the candidate you think is best. Unfortunately I have lost faith in my ability to decide that. Studying candidates'...
The nice thing about electability being uncertain is that you can choose the candidate you think is best.
Unfortunately I have lost faith in my ability to decide that. Studying candidates' policies seems useless since, after all, Congress makes the laws. We are likely to see either stalemate or centrist legislation regardless.
Maybe I should decide based on foreign policy instead? Most people don't do that but I don't see why not. Any recommendations for interesting articles to read?
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Thousands march on the fifth anniversary of Boris Nemtsov's death, to protest Putin's "constitutional coup"
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How Bernie Sanders answers a question
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How to respond to COVID-19
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Brazil senator Cid Gomes shot in stand-off with police
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Twenty-two studies, across ideological differences, agree: Medicare for All saves money
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Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27
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Trump faces his 'Chernobyl moment' after slashing pandemic defences to the bone
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Japanese Prime Minister asks all elementary, middle and high schools nationwide to close until late March to help control the spread of COVID-19
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Charleston Democratic debate Discussion thread
New debate, new thread. (Unfortunately somewhat late as the debate was streamed right at the time I wrote this post.) The debate was being live streamed in CBS's channel in YouTube. Twitter is one...
New debate, new thread. (Unfortunately somewhat late as the debate was streamed right at the time I wrote this post.)
The debate was being live streamed in CBS's channel in YouTube.
Twitter is one of the debate partners so expect a few questions from there.
The south Carolina primaries are due February 29th and there willl be no more debates until after super tuesday so this debate is pretty important.
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Covid-19 could mark the end of affluence politics in the USA, as the possibility of a global pandemic reveals the inability to make and distribute the things people need
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How the Coronavirus revealed authoritarianism’s fatal flaw
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Brazilian comedian makes fun of the president Jair Bolsonaro at Rio de Janeiro's Carnival
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EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
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Struggling to keep up, Finland exports plastic waste – a quarter of all plastic waste will be sent to facilities in Sweden or Germany for sorting and repurposing
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Policy vs technology
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The rules for rulers
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Donald Trump's budget gives Greenland another try – administration's proposal would give the State Department $587,000 to build a first permanent consular services outpost
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‘Now is the time’: A Federal Reserve official urges Congress to plan for recessions
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Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
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Abraham Galloway, spy for the Union
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Andrew Yang joins CNN as US political commentator
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LGBTQ activists in Iceland are protesting the planned deportation of a transgender teen and his family who fled Iran last February
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More than fifty people died under Victoria's euthanasia scheme during its first six months
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Who killed Swedish prime minister Olof Palme? After a night at the cinema in 1986, Palme was assassinated on Stockholm's busiest street
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The 'this is fine' bias in cable news
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Nevada culinary union lays into Sanders supporters after health care backlash
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Finnish government has proposed that primary care nurse visits become free of charge
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How could we regulate biased/lying media outlets and aggregators without encroaching on good ones?
I find this to be a pretty important question when news organizations like Fox News are literally aiming to help the Republican Party to stay on power, CNN and MSNBC promote centrist candidates...
I find this to be a pretty important question when news organizations like Fox News are literally aiming to help the Republican Party to stay on power, CNN and MSNBC promote centrist candidates and media aggregators ranging from r/the_donald to r/chapotraphouse banning anyone who opposes them. Thing is, these are the most well known examples. How could we tell faulty media sources and aggregators apart from good ones in mass? Do you think that's possible?
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Chinese scholar and outspoken critic directly blames Xi Jinping for severity of viral outbreak
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Denmark marks Schleswig reunification – 100 years since the people in the region of Schleswig voted either to remain with Germany or to join Denmark
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The world's lowest interest rate may soon be raised in Denmark – new forecasts were triggered by the exchange rate
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Independent Zali Steggall eyes end of ‘climate wars’ with zero carbon bill
News article: Independent Zali Steggall eyes end of ‘climate wars’ with zero carbon bill Zali Steggall's website: Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2020
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Switzerland votes to ban homophobic discrimination
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Vaping: What people are getting wrong
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The Donald Trump administration and the US mandate for neo-classicism
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Illiberal democracies explained
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Finland to become EU's only uranium producer – Finnish government gave the green light on Thursday for state-owned Terrafame to extract and refine
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Iowa Democratic caucus results delayed until Tuesday due to reporting inconsistencies and technical issues with app
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