Yet another ND linux-using transfemme who programs for a living
She/her, fae/faer if you’re feeling fancy
Speaking as an Australian:
I also feel like you need mandatory voting (with enforcement), like what we have. That reframes elections from “riling up your power base so they go out and vote” to “hey average voter, here’s why you should vote for me and how things will improve if you do so”.
A friend I know who has a philosophy degree got visibly angry when she saw this, because she hates it when complex philosophical/political quandaries are “solved” with a paragraph, especially since all of said paragraph-long solutions start breaking down the second you start thinking about them.
Every time you repost this meme, a philosopher weeps
Until the fetus can survive outside the womb, it’s not a person, it’s a part of the person carrying it. And nobody should be allowed to dictate what a person can and can’t do to themself, but themselves.
Total Bodily Autonomy, motherfucker.
Even if you miss, the shockwaves the bullet makes will kill every fish in the barrel anyway. The Mythbusters tested it.
Lethal shockwaves go brrr, actually
Either way you as a country still need something better than First Past The Post voting, which absolutely centralises power in to just two parties and makes a 3rd party impossible.
Mixed Member Proportional looks pretty good, where half of all seats are tied to local electorates and won by the votes in them, while the other half are given out to parties based on what’s needed to make the assembly match the overall voting of the country, e.g. if your party gets 50% of the popular vote but only wins 25% of location-based seats, you’re given enough unassigned seats to make it so that you control 50% of seats in the assembly.
Too bad one party has no interest in making it the system you use, and the other would actively fight it because it would kill them as a political force forever
smh drawing the noble ground hawk without her feathers