Mastodawn

Had a read over of the comments from my recent appearance on @carastern show.
This one is interesting, you actually find the opposite with the LLMs. They’ll give you the links to research for the points supporting #ProportionalRepresentation and just say stories supporting FPTP.
I think the LLMs are so heavily biased towards ProRep because they heavily weigh more authoritative sources. If there is a conspiracy afoot, it’s those damm political scientists!

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PAIGE! 🍁3d ago

@carastern this is one that reflects a understanding of ProRep as only a closed party list. This isn’t a system anyone has proposed for Canada.
Essentially, it’s a straw-man.
The reason that our politicians are so subservient is due to our electoral system. It makes creating a “Startup party” almost certainly doomed. Look at what happened to Maxime Bernier, in a proportional system he’d be in parliament running a small right wing party.

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Daniel Brotherston 3d ago

@paige @carastern this is just a cynical and very weird take.

The whole point of proportional representation is to give you a reason to vote beyond “I hate the other guy”.

But even leaving that aside the rest is just incoherent. It really makes you question democracy itself sometimes.

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PAIGE! 🍁

@danbrotherston @carastern I just think it's people engaged in a team sport.
People who support or are insiders in the current system are pretty transparent.
They haven't experienced life in a normal democracy so they don't know that what has been normalized here is weird.