Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Steve Kornacki shows how two counties could swing the election" video.

HERE IN EUROPE we hold an election in one month from start to finish, it €50 million total and the person with the most votes WINS...!!!
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@letitrip5139 California produced the MOST $$$GDP and Tax revenue per capita and has the LEAST representation per capita
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@Barchueetadonai Many places here have that.
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Your elections are SO messed up
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@apexon I thought you guys were all about "no taxation without representation"??? Do people in DC pay no federal taxes ???
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@letitrip5139 In the Senate races I think its up to 40X as much in some states.
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@jamesarnold7253 Seems completely batty that the 2020 election came down to abut 50,000 people
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@BreakThePendulum76 Am3ric4s economy has bifurcated - there are TWO economies. The economy of the top 30% which is doing amazingly well. And the economy of the 70% which is doing very badly. The numbers look good cos the 30% are doing so well. Its becoming like a pre WW1 economy, Lots of people struggling, a tiny middle class and a large [by usual standards] wealthy. My friend in the US earns about $200k, and she has cut back on the spending because she can feel the cost of living.
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@BreakThePendulum76 Im British by birth but Ive lived all over. Ive lived in Bulgaria for 15 years. I work very much part time due to health issues after covid, but my rent on a beach side apartment in Burgas Bulgaria is $165 a month. The average salary in this city is about $1,200 a month. A newly qualified 18 year old nurse earns about $700 so they could easily afford to rent their own apartment. The average family has 2 children on 1 salary. The government and society give vast amounts of help to young families, 2 years off work if you have a kid, fresh meals delivered to your door every morning till school age, then free school meals etc. Bulgaria is the opposite of the US or the Uk. Very small % of wealthy, almost no "middle class" but the vast majority are "working class doing OK"
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@brianstewart2271 123 likes and 32 comments would appear to disagree
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@Barchueetadonai sorry mate - Im sick today.
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@NewHorizon89 My god you guys need to spend WAY more on public education This is the single worst argument ever postulated on YouTube comments.
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@Bruce_Gruesome YES its to ensure that your elections are not democratic. HERE IN EUROPE we hold an election in one month from start to finish, it €50 million total and the person with the most votes WINS...!!!
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@kevinwoods9274 Am3ric4 has a first past the post system
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@BreakThePendulum76 Yes.
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@Gearsandoil Yes thats democracy
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@Barchueetadonai QUOTE: RCV is already being used all across the country in a wide range of jurisdictions. As of the 2022 elections, RCV has been adopted in 62 jurisdictions. Some prominent examples include: Alaska Maine New York City Cambridge, MA Minneapolis, MN San Francisco, CA
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@BreakThePendulum76 OH no its definitely NOT technofeudalism, you are going to like this. Bulgaria was the 3rd largest manufacturer of computers in the world in the 1980's - It made them for the whole of the USSR, India and China. In 1983 Bulgaria codified into law rules to Govern AI - they called them Robots at the time. Bulgaria is a strange little country when it comes to computing and AI. They took a process led approach to computers not a profit first - and it is will a cultural thing, so when the crowdstike blue screen OD thing happened, everything just kept working here fine. The ONE place on earth that will never be a technofeudalist state will be Bulgaria. there are many online articles about the Bulgarian laws of robotics - they are worth looking up. Its just a very flat society economically.
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@pedanticchicken2117 well you have about 500 or so 2000 year old tribes who for economic reasons have to be a monolith to compete in the 21st century. The only person to actually tackle this problem Freddy Heineken of Heineken beer fame. He was a great Europhile but recognised the individual regions were so desperate they needed to be autonomous. There is a very good article on it called "My Kingdom for a Beer? Heineken’s Eurotopia". he produced a map and everything. Its an issue that needs tackling. The only thing that keeps us together now is the fear of another giant WWx. But that cant last forever, we need a governance model that makes everyone feel included, yet allows us to compete in the 21st century
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@BigRibRon NO YOU DONT - and most of us would prefer you to get out of our continent. You pay for your own influence, and we don't like it - GO HOME. But you cant go home cos the $USD had no value, you don't make anything you don't add any value, so you keep the $USD as valuable by enforcing global dominance through your military. GO HOME and let your $USD find its natural value.
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@ricangirl02 Well its certainly better for consultants and political advisors that's for sure
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@kamikadse99 OK - see if you can spot the meaningful difference QUOTE 1 "and the person with the most votes WINS...!!!" QUOTE 2 " it's near impossible for a single candidate to get most of the vote" There is a small but very critical difference in these two comments. I hate to be that snobbish European but "the most votes" is NOT the same as "most of the votes" as "most of the votes" implies a simple majority whereas "the most votes" implies a plurality of the votes. Only the UK and Belarus have first-past-the-post systems like the US. Of the 43 countries most often considered to be within Europe, 40 use some form of proportional representation to elect their MPs.
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@D.D.-ud9zt DUDE you never defeat an em3my WITHOUT help - you LOST to guys in flip flops on donkeys. And you needed the help of the French to get independence. The only w4r5 you have EVER won were the ones you had help with - you have lost EVERY SINGLE war where you were on your own.
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