asteroidbelt

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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
No the solution is to impose carbon tax, and: * Let consumer decide what is more important for them, saved money or not worrying about light switches * Give capitalists incentive to produce greener electricity Yes, technically, forcing peop
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> If the voting public prefers a weak moderate candidate with no agenda No voting public prefers other candidates, and moderate candidate as backup. I give you an example I posted in another thread: * 60% want a dem candidate to win * 40
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> the more accurate is the representation of the whole Accurate representation is not a goal. The goal is freedom, wealth, stability, happiness, etc. Also, people who vote for a random names just because they are forced to, are not exact
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> You elect the candidate that the most people approve of, regardless of whether or not there are other "stronger" candidates. It may be a strategic voting: I approve anyone who is not democrat (or republican). > The populat
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> Approval voting is simpler than IRV and (as far as I know) it isn't worse than FPTP in any way FPTP might be better than approval voting, because approval voting favors weak moderate candidates with no agenda. With FPTP the people
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
STAR voting does not eliminate strategic voting. Suppose you are left, and there are three candidate, left, center, right. Honestly you would rank then as 5, 3, 1. But center candidate is better for you than right. So you are going to vote
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
And lower than 90% turnout is better, right? Because when people are forced to vote, they are on average more likely to vote for a random name they heard on TV than for a candidate with a program they read and the background they studied.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Cost of elections is not an issue, but replacing FPTP with ranked choice makes candidate less dependent on the party. Remember Trump 2016 elections, when Trump disagreed with the way debates were conducted. Trump had to bend because there c
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Approval voting may lead to election of weak candidates, no? Like there's a strong right candidate, disapproved by left, there's strong left, disapproved by right, and there's meh candidate approved by both. Either strong rig
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
59% Americans support breaking up big tech. https://www.vox.com/2021/1/26/22241053/antitrust-google-face...