Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "NowThis Impact" channel.

Tabora This one was the economy one. The peace prize is done in Norway unlike the rest of them.
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Ranked voting is still harmful because you end up with a binary result. A party either wind 100% or lose 100%. It's better with a proportional system where all parties benefits from voters everywhere without any benefit to suppressing voters in certain locations and without the issue of a zero sum game where supporting another party is harmful for your own. By having more than one winner in any given location (and splitting that area up into multiple smaller constituencies makes this worse not better) you end up with a friendlier and more nuanced political climate with parties cooperating more and making compromises.
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Wow... I don't remember ever having this much tension in my own countrys parliament in my lifetime... I'm really impressed Bernie though. He had to deal with a lot more then our politicans yet kept his calm...
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We don't really use sticks here in Norway. Neither for prisoners nor for children. Indeed you can lose custody if you slap the bum of a child or punish them. There's other techniques that's promoted by our government.
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The stick never really help is our experience. Even if someone come out of a prison system and don't reoffend after a prison sentence using a stick they're still not the kind of people you want in your society. Only carrots does that. As for the idea that some can't be rehabilitated, of course not, if you give up on them... Yet we're still going to try with a mass murderer in my country that killed 78 people. If we succeed he will be released.
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Was the farm formerly owned by someone who went bankrupt or something? Because that's the only way I can think of that anyone more or less rational would end up distressed enough to behave this way...
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Jeez, first past the post is such a messed up electoral system... -_-
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 @pat77pat It might not be. But that doesn't mean that there shouldn't be. We do use rehabilitation for everyone in my country, and it works 80% of the time.
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 @pat77pat Also, you're aware that you're using the stick yourself right now with the way you're talking with him, right? Perhaps not the best look when arguing for the carrot...
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@ademirsegura6307 "ADX"?
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@ademirsegura6307 Okey thank you. But I'm still at a loss what you meant with the sentence there. Why did you bring up that prison in this thread?
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 @danbridges4755 The Disney adaptations are generally inferior to the European originals...
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@tobeytransport2802 There's ways of selling the concept to politicans in both countries. And quite frankly both parties in both countries contains a lot of representatives that are fed up with various side effects of the first past the post system and that might be convinced to support a change if you can get enough people behind you. Also, while a first past the post system is of course messed up to the extreme it can still be beaten with a lot of effort. Sanders was a Independent for instance. You can get your foot in the door outside the parties and quietly work on making changes if you want.
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@Frenchpie Majority mention? How does that work?
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@thezu9250 It's not about colour. I don't believe in evil, regardless of colour. Every single person out there that has done something categorized as "evil" by others that I've heard about have something or other that explains their behaviour. Usually some kind of trauma. That's part of why I consider the US prison system inhumane. There's so many people killed, locked up and just in general mistreated because of a society that failed them. A system with insufficient mental health treatment, health care, journalism, political nuance (the two party system in your country is leaving you all blind to each other), too little interaction with people who are different (because of multiple mechanisms in your society reducing mixing, including a lack of mixed use zoning and previous outright racist zoning laws). Rich and poor people live segregated, poverty and zoning laws has concentrated the discriminated minorities in the cities isolating rural populations. A first past the post electoral system has lead to just two political parties dominating your politics. Yet because your system provides more seats pr citizen to rural areas it's viable for parties to play to the urban rural divide and the other correlating differences, including race in their rhetorics in order to get elected, allowing both sides to distract voters from their antidemocratic tendencies. And it leads to this kind of mindsets, especially because media on both sides has become quite partisan. The right wing ones more so then the left, but still. The less partisan local news organizations are being shut down left, right and center, third parties and independent candidates are ignored... And people are being kept in the dark on both sides... I just feel sorry for you Americans... You are being told that you live in the best country in the world, yet it's honestly among the worst in the western world. Yes, you earn more money, but when you factor in everything from work hours to labour laws to prices, food quality, social cohesion/racism, social mobility etc, etc, etc it's just... Not that great. Don't get me wrong, you're far from a third world country as a country. But a significant number of you genuinely live worse lives then people who are in third world countries due to the huge unequalities... And it's such a shame given all of your potential. All the black people who don't get a good education because the schools are funded by local taxes only and locals are poor leaving the education unfunded, no matter the intelligence of the students. At the same time their parents don't have time for a good upbringing as they're struggling as it is due to low wages and long hours at work. Sometimes working two jobs, something that's basically unheard of here. And people in Christian communities being denied fundamental knowledge due to extremists being allowed to ban schools and libraries from spreading knowledge. Leaving people unaware of fundamental principles of science and critical thinking. And even biology. Like, seriously, one girl I've talked with literally has experienced a guy she gave a bj freaking out after finishing up in her front because he thought she might end up pregnant. By comparison 8 year olds in my country can explain to an American in English the basics of how human genitals work, what puberty is, what birth control is and how they work and what consent is and how to recognize abuse and who to contact. Just... I don't feel anyone in the US can be blamed for their missguided views. Be that some black Americans who believe that the vaccines against covid (including the ones made here in Europe) somehow is a US conspiracy to eliminate all black people in the country... (I've talked with some holding such views) to white nutcases subscribing to the displacement theories etc... Your TV networks have been caught red-handed in lying to you for profit... Fox News is more blatant about it, but CNN etc does it too. And the Ecco chambers on social networks are even worse. Using and reusing "facts" dropped by Russians, Chinese and Indians... Sometimes state agents, sometimes just poor people trying to make advertising money by playing on peoples partisanship... In such a environment of misinformation and suffering how can anyone be expected to remain sane?
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