MyBrainHurts

I didn't realize what community I was in, I thought this was a more general one. Seems rude to come in and argue the merits of PR in a community devoted to it, apologies, I'm happy to let it be.

blame the culture, not the electoral system.

If you read about what's happening in those countries, you'll realize it's not about the culture, it's that PR incentivizes really bad outcomes. Take Germany for example. Just like here, a small minority of people would vote for really hateful parties that are toxic and should be avoided. However, avoiding them has made the other parties form really broad and thus ineffective coalitions, which are unable to push forward significant legislation. The increasing inability to pass significant legislation has led to Germany's stalling development, which then further fuels extremist parties.

Similarly, you'll see in Israel where mainstream parties are held hostage by relatively small extremist parties leading to horrific outcomes that are generally not supported by the public.

I basically agree with the statement:

The responsibility of the electoral system is to ensure **effective **representation in government

but I think you are missing the effective part. Consider, an absolute pure democracy where every bill, item etc was voted on by everyone. That would certainly be the ultimate in democracy, but it would be a terrible way to run a country and likely lead to some insane policy choices. Similarly, an autocracy can pass perfect and brilliant legislation but is completely un democratic. So, we can see that there is give and take between full representation and effective government. My entire point is that PR, while really groovy on paper, tends to produce really bad outcomes and thus sacrifices a lot of the efficiency of government (and of voting frankly) for some (arguably temporary) democratic gain. I know too much about the to be anything but stridently opposed to PR.

I'll start the ball rolling:

The instant classics, Schitt's Creek and Kim's Convenience are there. Both are heartwarming, joyful family comedies. Blackberry is a great little movie about the Blackberry phone with Glenn Howerton (Dennis from it's always sunny in Philadelphia) and Jay Baruchel (Man Seeking Woman, basically that nerdy looking dude you'll recognize instantly.)

Ones I haven't seen but have heard really good things about (and are thus on my list):

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Reservation Dogs, Penny Dreadful, Britannia, Masters of Sex, Pen15

Haven't heard much but Natasha Lyonne is usually awesome, so Poker Face is on my list.

I've started listing a few CBC gem shows I'd like to watch (though I don't really watch much tv so it may take me some time.) Anyway, from my list there are a couple that might fit the bill:

Britannia - Trailer

Penny Dreadful Trailer

Please, anything but full PR. Please. In a polarized landscape PR is leading to increasingly bad outcomes (Israel, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland etc.) In a PR system, the Far Right would be running France.

This is not happening because the citizens of those countries are less good than Canadians.

Hi there, sorry for the delay!

I've never built a wiki, nor have any clue how to do it but I'll start looking into it and then circle back to the community seeking out feedback about organization/layout and any other design or UX stuff we should consider.

Edit: One other thing, do we have a way to automatically cross-post submissions to this community to say, !boycottus@lemmy.ca ? (This seems like a mod ability or some such?)

I would love for Ford to demand trump thank Canada for the electricity or he turns it off. (Not really but a man can dream, right?)

Love it, thank you!

Hi there! First, thanks for running this community, it's been great to see all the Canadian pride and brands!

A few thoughts: With a few volunteers, I wonder if we could make a big old wiki or site with various options. (If so, should we organize it with similar categories to one of the buy canada websites so that we can update from them and vice versa?)

To win any war, we need allies. I imagine a lot of us are subscribed to BuyEuropean, I wonder if it might be worthwhile to also create a third community, /BuyUnAmerican or somesuch and try to find replacements for as much as possible?

Happy to help however I can!

If a Conservative President, Congress and Senate can't pass a bill and the government shuts down, I wonder whom the people will blame.

Good thing he cleared that up! I foolishly underestimated him and when he signed an executive order protecting the auto industry from the executive order he'd signed 48 hours earlier, well, I thought he maybe hadn't thought things through or got panicked when the markets had one of their worst weeks in years.

Glad to know it was actually his beneficence.

What a silly "analysis."

You could look to Italy, Israel, Austria, the Netherlands etc for examples of the Far right not only flourishing but running government in PR systems without a majority of the votes.

The more you read about those or the AFD the more you'll see how much of their rise has in large part been because of ineffective/unwieldy coalitions. (It's worth reading about the contortions Germany is trying just to keep the AFD out of government.

The notion that it is somehow inevitable that the Far Right will infect every mainstream party in a fptp system is ridiculous. (And why wouldn't it happen with the Far Left, which presumably we would cheer?)

Hell, you know why thr Far Right isn't running France? Right, because Fptp enabled the Left, Centre and moderate Right to stop them.

I get the appeal but goddamn, the more you read about how PR is actually playing out, the scarier it gets. Cherrypicking an example is the absolute worst way to make a point and a great way to demonstrate you don't know what you are talking about.

I think they were those friends you teased but still had each other's backs.

Now... They cannot and should not be trusted.