Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "GOP Reels as Scandal-Ridden MAGA Candidates like Walker and Oz Implode: A Closer Look" video.

  1. Making every vote count the same is called “proportional representation”. It’s how voting works in Germany; the system was put in place after World War II to ensure that a dictator could never take power there again. And it worked so well, we here in NZ copied it. It does almost inevitably lead to coalition politics: you get a range of political parties in Parliament, none with a clear majority, so they need to figure out how to work together to get things done. But most of us see that as a feature, not a bug. Time for the US to give it a try?
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  2. The more you point out their character flaws, the more they double down on their denials.
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  3. Just someþing to þink about, for ðose wiþ noþing else to do right now ...
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  4.  @christinebenson518  That wasn’t a different letter, it was a contextual form of the letter s, not used at the ends of words. Many current OpenType fonts offer it as a feature you can enable, with the right software. For example, Inkscape.
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  5.  @jimuicker4731  There are countries where proportional representation seems to work well (e.g. Germany, NZ, no doubt other European countries), and ones that seem to have trouble (Italy, Israel). All I can say is, learn what to do from the good ones, what not to do from the bad ones!
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  6.  @havable  It took some years to bring the MMP system in. There was a Royal Commission back in the 1980s. Then there was a campaign to act on the recommendations of the Commission. That was resisted by many powerful figures, as you can imagine. Finally the politicians agreed to hold a referendum on it (actually two referenda, one on whether to switch and the other on what to switch to). The powerful figures made many dire predictions of instability and doom and gloom and all the rest of it. But the public went for the switch anyway. And here we are.
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  7. So much for the idea that everybody was “created equal” ...
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  8. Maybe the antiliberals see it as shocking or scandalous or rude or something.
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  9. 4:06 Not sure if this counts as a “correction”, but when you put two symbols side by side with their faux-3D depth perspective at conflicting angles, it makes me wonder about the skills of their art department. No, I don’t use Adobe products. Why do you ask?
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  10. Not really: remember Trump never won the popular vote. A more representative system would never have elected him.
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