Sunshine (she/her) @ Sunshine @lemmy.ca

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Ahh, here's the tankie...

You're responsible for Donald Trump getting elected because you just focused on attacking democrats relentlessly then foolishly claimed that voting is "pointless"

Get out of here with your authoritarian tendencies.

People in Germany do not find mixed-member proportional complicated. It’s only from our frame of reference that we believe it as such.

You can do both have a general strike and support smaller parties who are much more pro-union.

https://cupe.ca/our-election-system-unfair-we-can-make-it-better

I have mixed feelings about Proportional Representation, I’m worried it would lessen the “local candidate” element of the election. I like the concept of voting for a local representative from my area in Parliament, no matter their party affiliation.

That is a misnomer as proportional representation is a family of electoral systems. The party-lists is the electoral system that lacks the local representation however Mixed-Member Proportional & Single Transferable Vote both retain it.

I suppose we could go with PR/STV and triple the amount of representatives to still have some sort of local area representative scheme… but that could get expensive and unwieldy very quick.

The elections would cost the same as it would only cost money at first to convert the system from first-past-the-post to the single transferable vote / mixed-member proportional.

I said voting out the current two parties is unrealistic.

It worked in Quebec, the bloc supplanted the conservatives and liberals in many of their ridings. We need to have more regional parties and a larger push for proportional representation from the conservatives and liberals. Blue and Red are only so powerful thanks to our donations, volunteering and positive reinforcements. Take that away and they will be shells of their formerselves.

You will lay on the floor doing nothing while claiming you're "realistic"

This conversation is not productive, stop being self defeatist and start working on solutions.

That's such a strawman as I have never said to "only vote." There are many things people can do to pressure the government.

Those people could also set up their own regional party to get their voices better heard in parliament like the bloc have successfully done, I'm not saying to "only vote."

We have 4 years to get canadians away from Twitter and Facebook to Mastodon and Friendica to reduce the amount of influence the oligarchs have on our comms.

Lets bring back the vote subsidy, limit the contribution limits to $100 a year, lower the voting age to 16 and pass proportional representation!

They will with enough pressure. This negative attitude is useless.

I suppose I have haha

That’s a self fulfilling prophecy.

Of course the corporate media is screaming “DeFICitS” on a minority liberal government.

Not voting makes it easier for politicians to ignore them.

Those anarchists, tankies, fascists and authoritarians who claim this are just trying to sabotage democracy.

Looks like Musk's manipulation of the Twitter algorithm didnt work in Pierre's favour.

Thank goodness Mark Carney was given a minority.

Hey, you’re back! I missed you!

I completely agree the liberals wanted all the seats for themselves while acting like they deserve 100% of the power with only 42% of the vote while the smaller parties pulled out of some to avoid splitting the vote.

In a better world the liberals and conservatives would only receive 49% of the vote at most so they're forced to stop doing the bidding of corporations and oligarchs without question.