SOUTH AMERICAN ELECTIONS

[two different people are being portrayed side by side]

Gabriela Rosa Sympatica
Elementary school teacher
Beloved by her community
Wants to improve lives
[portrait of a smiling woman in overalls]

Diego Hitlerio de la Junta
Son of a previous dictator
Went to jail for corruption
Wants to sterilize natives
[portrait of a frowning nasty looking character in military gear]

Temporary results (98% ballots counted):
[Gabriela] 49.9999%
[Diego] 50.0001%

https://thebad.website/comic/south_american_elections

  • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    (Your system is shit, I’ll die on this hill).

    Oh trust me, a lot of us fully agree this system is dumb as hell. Personally I’m in favor of a parliamentary system with a PM who is just a random rep from the leading party and disposing of the senate because it just artificially inflates the voting power of corn. Corn’s cool and all, but I don’t think corn’s existence should count as like 6 Californian votes.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 hours ago

      Because of the First Past The Post, even a Parliamentary system in the US with the current Mathematics of how Congress or the Senate representatives are allocated from votes (i.e. single winner per electoral circle) would be still be a two party system which doesn’t represent most people.

      Just look at Britain (which has a FPTP Parliamentary System) were the current party in Government has more than 50% of members of Parliament even though they got only 34% of votes and is arresting people as Terrorist Supporters for demonstrating against Britain’s support for the Genocide in Gaza, has enacted quite extreme anti-Demonstration legislation and is passing electronic communications surveillance laws similar to those in Despotic Autocracies.

      Absolutelly, Presidential systems where ONE PERSON ONLY supposedly manages the nation according to the will of millions are complete total bullshit because it’s impossible that one person can reflect the preferences of millions, but Parliamentary systems with First Past The Post aren’t much better because de facto they’re generally equivalent to 2 sets of views rather than just 1 - theoretically multiple parliamentarians from the same party would mean multiple view, but my experience living in several such countries is that it’s rare for a member of parliament not to vote the same as the rest of the party in a vote - I would estimate that dissent is in average less than 5%.

      • kazerniel@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        I like Scotland’s proportional representation system. It retains constituency candidates, but compensates non-winning parties with seats based on regional votes. Afaik Wales and Northern Ireland also have proportional systems in their devolved parliaments, so only England is lagging behind :P

      • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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        7 hours ago

        Oh, I hate FPtP too, much more of a ranked choice kinda guy. This was just me complaining about my stupid government’s form.

    • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      1 day ago

      the electoral college and a federal government made up of the states rather than of the people along with simple plurality voting sometimes and majority voting others are, mathematically, the least power you can give people while still issuing a ballot. a binary party system is just a unitary party system where the final votes for the party leadership is more visible.

      “The people only have those rights which i allow them to have” — Dr DOOM

      • Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works
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        24 hours ago

        I like to use a common quote from data archivists: Two is one and one is none.

        The more people your system represents the better. Two party systems are an illusion of choice and single party system offer you no choice.