blobjim
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Patriots in control 
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How are they rewarded, in any way?
Only voting for your favorite gives the other candidates less approval, which swings the vote towards the candidate who has voters who are the most "selective". Plus even if that isn't the case, who's to say the person who wins is the best and not just the most status quo or calculated politician?
something to break the rhythm of western democracy
They already have something better than single-member voting districts in "western democracy": direct proportional representation. It clearly doesn't make much difference.
use approval ratings, to some degree, for electing municipal and provincial officials?
Barack Obama has a 63% approval rating. I guess you saud local politicians but I bet you can find similar examples.
I think you underestimate the level to which propaganda and ruling class maneuvering determines who has power, and overestimate the amount that elections matter, which are in fact glorified polls.
We all saw how it took them just a couple days to completely crush Bernie Sanders' last election campaign.
I'm not against elections, but they have to serve a specific pupose and not just exist for the ceremony. Maybe elections they have in Cuba or China work better if it's just a neighborhood voting for a leader, but idk.
Because there is no voting method that is better than other methods. In this method, voters who only choose their favorite candidate are rewarded for not approving of more than one candidate. So you're just back to first pst the post, or some weird variation of it with slightly different outcomes that nobody could really say is "better" or "worse" (because you can't determine "goodness" based on a bunch of stats nerd crap). Oppose electoral fetishism!
I appreciate posting the CBS video because it's interesting to see what's being shoveled into boomer brains.
This whole video is just insane. It's like you can get just from the vibe of the video that it's pure distilled propaganda. I even noticed a weird little thing at about 3:30 in the video where he says the Hamas attack was called the "al-Aqsa Wave". It's the "al-Aqsa Flood". Nobody is calling it "wave". They just felt the need to change the wording as like a power thing? Like how American media called the Arab Uprising the "Arab Spring". I guess maybe they want you to think "human wave attack" like "Spring" was supposed to conjure "Prague Spring"?
They keep calling the settler psychopaths "Jewish activists". And the reporter said "simply by performing these acts" as if signaling that you're going to destroy the al-Aqsa mosque is something light-hearted that those extremist Muslims are overreacting to.
"Can you understand why Hamas might be outraged". As if everyone who thinks this is gross is in Hamas lmao.
Western propagandists delenda est.
It's amazing how much mealy-mouth lies companies tell to avoid saying the obvious: "the shareholders demand that we implement RTO".
60% of our employees are outside a reasonable distance to an office
So I guess this policy is basically layoffs without doing layoffs.
While your immediate team might not be present, being physically present can facilitate spontaneous interactions and drive connectedness cross-functionally
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no actually I think the US deserves much worse