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30 votes
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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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The normalization of far-right populism in Europe
8 votes -
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
6 votes -
The 2020 endorsement primary
15 votes -
QAnon now has its own super PAC, established by the owner of 8chan
21 votes -
The awakening of Norman Rockwell
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The twenty-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained
10 votes -
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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Tech was supposed to improve caucuses. Instead, it may have doomed them
14 votes -
Putin introduces constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage and mentioning God
18 votes -
Public Enemy fires Flavor Flav after Bernie Sanders rally spat
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Three cheers for socialism - Christian love and political practice
7 votes -
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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A Tennessee-based Democratic National Committee member backing an effort to use superdelegates to select the party’s presidential nominee is also a Republican donor and health care lobbyist
9 votes -
Progressives' foreign policy dillemma
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Thousands march on the fifth anniversary of Boris Nemtsov's death, to protest Putin's "constitutional coup"
9 votes -
How Bernie Sanders answers a question
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How to respond to COVID-19
10 votes -
Vox just made four videos on the strengths of the 2020 frontrunners
The case for Bernie Sanders The case for Joe biden The case for Elizabeth Warren The case for Pete Buttigieg
9 votes -
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
37 votes -
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.
16 votes -
Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s autocratic former president who ruled with an iron fist for three decades before being toppled during the Arab spring protests in 2011, has died aged 91
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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
21 votes -
How the Coronavirus revealed authoritarianism’s fatal flaw
14 votes -
Brazilian comedian makes fun of the president Jair Bolsonaro at Rio de Janeiro's Carnival
5 votes -
EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
14 votes -
Hmong leaders rally against Trump administration deportation push
5 votes -
The lost 110 words of the US Constitution: The 14th Amendment says states that infringe the vote must lose representation in Congress. It’s time to make this happen.
15 votes -
Policy vs technology
15 votes -
The rules for rulers
10 votes -
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
4 votes -
There's a dark side to Boris Johnson's government, and even his allies are fed up with it
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‘Now is the time’: A Federal Reserve official urges Congress to plan for recessions
7 votes -
Clearing up the confusion around Prop 13 on the 2020 ballot
7 votes -
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
19 votes -
Friendly with Kevin Rudd
5 votes -
How American primaries shape the Presidential nomination
4 votes -
How the US has changed to become gradually more democratic over time
4 votes -
Abraham Galloway, spy for the Union
2 votes -
Andrew Yang joins CNN as US political commentator
21 votes -
Bernie Sanders probably has a support ceiling, but there are still several ways he could win the nomination
10 votes -
Finland's foreign minister faces probe over Syria repatriations – Pekka Haavisto will be investigated over his plan for swiftly bringing children held in Syria to Finland
4 votes -
Blood and soil in Narendra Modi's India
10 votes