I’m no advocate for capitalism, but right now the most democratic countries on earth are ones that you would probably label “capitalist”, although I would say they are more accurately labelled “mixed economies”.
But again the problem isn’t the economic system that leads to the lack of food. It’s how much you concentrate power in the hands of a few people.
Then you don’t need electoral reform, you need regulations and enforcement.
I wish people would realize it is neither socialism nor capitalism that leads to empty food shelves, but a lack of democracy.
We’re repeatedly told in school and all throughout our media that Canada is the “second largest land mass in the world”. Is that not true?
There are some electoral systems worse than FPTP.
RCV is a politician’s trap. It isn’t electoral reform, it is ballot reform. It comes in good forms like STV, or bad forms like IRV. And the politicians always want IRV, because that trends even faster than FPTP towards a 2 party system.
You need a system that actually lets you elect a third party, not one that lets you write one on a ballot to no avail.
Actually all new accounts are shadowbanned by default automatically if they start commenting too much right away. 3 months old gives you full privileges.
They’ve been doing that since infrared remotes let you turn the TV on.
If anyone does, EU will be the first.
And yet, they’ve been the best government on the planet for the working class.
What makes you define the EU as ideologically liberal?
Waitll you get to Star Wars Episode 1
I think the biggest threat is all the billionaires who don’t want working class people getting together and agreeing with each other on the internet.
Everything you mentioned - misinformation, hate speech, age verification - works towards that same goal.
Most of Reddit’s users do not post, comment, or even vote.
Reddit’s product is the ability to sell people the perception of a natural conversation between two ordinary people on the internet, where the conversation is shaped by corporations and state agents.
Actual ordinary people get in the way of that. Reddit does not want users.
The world would be a better place if we could just contain Russia.
It’s what Russia wants.
Opposite for me. Weed made me feel paranoid when it was illegal, or when my parents would shame me for smoking. Now there are no social consequences to smoking, so I have nothing to feel paranoid about.
What are you paranoid about? Blackhawk helicopters?
And I was told only perverts would want to secretly record their surroundings.