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Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life by lucideer on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @07:45AM (#27193445)
> he would also say it's the first past the post system that has caused so much alienation from the political process

I think I'd agree with this analysis. I live in Ireland, where we have PRSTV (for somewhat hilarious historical reasons while we were under British rule—a Unionist minority wanting better representation in local politics[0]), and while our representative democracy is still riddled with problems and voter alienation, I still think those are multifaceted and have various other complex causes; PRSTV itself is pretty decent as far as representative systems go.

[0] https://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-his...

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Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life by rbanffy on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @08:32AM (#27193725)
I moved to Ireland five years ago and I can say I’ve never seen a saner political environment in my life. It’s hard to polarise when extremes are punished harshly and that, while makes it hard to differentiate between parties, it brings a lot of stability.

Trump, Bolsonaro, Duterte, Orban, and so many others wouldn’t be possible here.

And that’s a killer feature.

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