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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Also, people who want better plans than Medicare allows (Medicare as-is doesn't provide a lot of frills - I'm on it, so I know) can pay for them.
Canada uses the exact same electoral system as the US from a mechanics of voting perspective. You just need less money, have more coherent parties and have less influence of money generally. Same with the U.K.
If you have single representstive districts they’re the same thing. The distinction only kicks in if you’re using multi member districts.
Edited by Silasw on Nov 8th 2020 at 7:44:31 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran![]()
In Europe every tax-paying resident is guaranteed public healthcare, but a lot of people also opt-in to buy insurance, since it tends to cover a little bit more
Right, but some countries have a system where you vote for a Party and their platform, not a candidate. And seats are assigned to parties roughly proportional to their constituencies.
Edited by Xopher001 on Nov 8th 2020 at 9:47:43 PM
Canada has 338 ridings, and in each riding the person with the most votes wins that riding and goes to the House of Commons, which is basically our House of Representatives. Second place gets nothing. Now, it is often said that we vote based on the party the candidate is part of, instead of voting based on that person's own merits.
Edited by WillKeaton on Nov 8th 2020 at 12:47:37 PM
Of course we do. The party discipline in Canada is much more strict. Individual M Ps (members of parliament) almost never vote against their party. There is almost no difference between voting for the MP and voting for the party/party leader. I don't even know the name of my riding's MP.
That being said, FPTP also creates problems for us since we have ~3 left parties. Vote splitting between the Libs, NDP and Greens are how we can have Con governments. If the left is united, we'd never have a Con government again.
Yeah I’m a brit and I technically have private health insurance. Because my parents find it useful to have it to cover their dentist appointments and opticians appointments and it’s cheep enough that including me on it doesn’t cost them anything measurable
It doesn’t provide much, slightly under £100 a year for dental, slightly under £100 a year for optical, £150 a year for diagnose and £50 a year for a mix of other stuff. Costs about £150 a year and covers everything I need.
The big thing is that you can be expelled from a party in Canada, you can’t in the US.
Edited by Silasw on Nov 8th 2020 at 7:57:03 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranSingle member districts aren't so bad if the lines are drawn by an explicitly non-partisan processes.
While obviously any organization is made up of people and people are never perfectly nonpartisan, simply having an office with an explicit obligation to appear nonpartisan, as I understand Canada does, goes a long way in cutting out the worst offenses.
In the US districts are drawn by the state governments who are often allowed to openly redistrict after a census for partisan advantage. This isn't true in every state as some do the right thing and have independent commissions (or allow the state courts to throw out excessively partisan maps), but it's true in enough states to really screw up representation.
Edited by Falrinn on Nov 8th 2020 at 12:04:41 PM
I mean, I’d consider him radical in the sense that his idea are decidedly against the status quo - in that sense, being radical can be either good or bad.
Of course, Bernie’s popularity means that a lot of his ideas are finding mainstream acceptance, even if they have yet to be implemented.
Edited by KarkatTheDalek on Nov 8th 2020 at 3:41:07 PM
Oh God! Natural light!McCarthy is basically Trump 1.0. He was a obnoxious memorable blowhard and liar as well as Stolen Valor scumbag who gets all the attention. It covers up that the war on socialism was waged by the HUAC [including Richard Nixon] and J. Edgar Hoover who used the FBI as his own personal Secret Police.
And then people pretend communism WASN'T actually the ideaology of multiple authoritarian dictatorship engaged in aggressive warfare and expansionism.
But yes, the GOP just lies about Bernie and wage a war on labor rights.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Nov 8th 2020 at 12:45:20 PM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.The Cold War was a messy staredown contest by two Imperialist superpowers who used their own ideology (""""Democracy""""" for America, and """"Communism"""" for the USSR) to justify their imperialism. I don't think even the staunchiest Leftist would defend the USSR in that scenario, unless they're just a Tankie.
Oh, you would be shocked how many self-identified anarchists with a genuine belief in leftist ideals I've seen still come up with excuses for the Soviets. Or Mao even.
At least a few anarcho-communist friends of mutuals who wave around the black-and-red banners have proclaimed Xi Jinping the firebrand savior of the CCP who would scour it free of its neoliberal taint and return it to true leftism, at least until the Uyghur situation made them quiet down if not fully recant their support for him.
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Overhead my dad call Biden a corrupt puppet.
Projecting much?