"I don’t think these political systems [liberal democracy] have been very good for the West" -- what systems do you think would be better?
To me most of the problems seem related to the fact that they aren't in practice all that democratic, but this could in theory be fixed (liquid democracy, non-compete contracts for politicians vis-a-vis their constituents, https://rangevoting.org)
My problem with these sorts of voting systems is that they become less transparent to the voter. We have one here in Dunedin (STV) along with postal voting and I figure therefore that we've lost control of who goes on our council and who our Mayor is.
well STV is a form of ranked and ranked is absolute garbage. arguably worse than plurality IMO because in addition to all it's other problems it is as you point out barely auditable even for small elections. score voting (aka range) doesn't have that problem: it's precinct countable.
https://rangevoting.org/CompChart.html and the site has excellent arguments and explanations for everything in that table. I disagree when it says approval is simpler than range though, because scoring seems completely intuitive while not being able to express preference between approved-of candidates does not.
For Africa this is probably a good resource. There will be many countries in Africa that don't require vaccinations. But not all, Kenya for example will be difficult without vaccinations.
The problem is that in Australia the airlines require vax paper to fly!
All of them?
February 1st here for Air NZ. A court case (not in NZ) would be a good way to put an end to that.
Yes.
I did not know NZ has courts.....
Seems to me that Hazzard is NSW's main problem. Perrottet almost looks like maybe he doesn't know what's going on? But Hazzard does.
Both are mere script-readers.
However, Perro is OK so far - except he reversed his indoors masking and QR codes because "they" pressured him via the "experts" and the media.
I emailed one such "expert" yesterday with taunting questions. Her reply was
"you seem to be very out of touch".
I made some follow-up comments. Then she blocked me, after reading them!
The semblance of them. Doesn't seem to be a decent Judge in the land.
"I don’t think these political systems [liberal democracy] have been very good for the West" -- what systems do you think would be better?
To me most of the problems seem related to the fact that they aren't in practice all that democratic, but this could in theory be fixed (liquid democracy, non-compete contracts for politicians vis-a-vis their constituents, https://rangevoting.org)
My problem with these sorts of voting systems is that they become less transparent to the voter. We have one here in Dunedin (STV) along with postal voting and I figure therefore that we've lost control of who goes on our council and who our Mayor is.
well STV is a form of ranked and ranked is absolute garbage. arguably worse than plurality IMO because in addition to all it's other problems it is as you point out barely auditable even for small elections. score voting (aka range) doesn't have that problem: it's precinct countable.
https://rangevoting.org/CompChart.html and the site has excellent arguments and explanations for everything in that table. I disagree when it says approval is simpler than range though, because scoring seems completely intuitive while not being able to express preference between approved-of candidates does not.
I will have a better look at it.
For Africa this is probably a good resource. There will be many countries in Africa that don't require vaccinations. But not all, Kenya for example will be difficult without vaccinations.
https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/africa/
I’m looking very closely at Mexico. They make it easy to get residency there also
I'll have a look.
Yeah I'd say so, didn't find any articles on them though. But Cyril did go on a Vaxx sale around Africa recently too.