@MyBrainHurts Lol, now you're making my brain hurt. I'm not sure if you realize how bad things are here. Ah well, we won't convince each other. But wish you all the best up there.
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@MyBrainHurts living in the us I guess it feels like fptp is producing government that is every bit as unresponsive to people's problems. (Really a lot more unresponsive, for the problems important to me, like climate and housing.) And given the choice between a party system where it's a little hard to build a coalition that lasts more than a couple years, and a two party system with one party actively dismantling democracy; I'd so so happily take the first one.
@AlolanVulpix @MyBrainHurts Sorry I know this isn't directly abt PR for Canada. But isn't Germany really an example of PR success? AFD is not in government. In the US, a similar movement (MAGA) pretty easily parlayed a small plurality within one party into a takeover of every government branch.
@cdegroot @AlolanVulpix What did you have in mind? I watched the whole video and I didn't see PR mentioned at all. He was pretty down on ranked choice voting as a voting method, but then seemed to say at least it's better than FPTP. He also said most countries in the world use ranked choice voting to elect their leaders, which... is not true. He seemed keen on approval voting, which I've read can also be used with multi-winner proportional systems, though I think that's pretty theoretical. Either way, seems like less suboptimal is always a worthwhile direction to go.