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2026-03-31 04:05 UTC

Had a read over of the comments from my recent appearance on @carastern show. This one is interesting, you actually find the opposite with the LLMs. They’ll give you the links to research for the points supporting #ProportionalRepresentation and just say stories supporting FPTP. I think the LLMs are so heavily biased towards ProRep because they heavily weigh more authoritative sources. If there is a conspiracy afoot, it’s those damm political scientists!

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@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com 2026-03-31 04:15

@carastern this is one that reflects a understanding of ProRep as only a closed party list. This isn’t a system anyone has proposed for Canada. Essentially, it’s a straw-man. The reason that our politicians are so subservient is due to our electoral system. It makes creating a “Startup party” almost certainly doomed. Look at what happened to Maxime Bernier, in a proportional system he’d be in parliament running a small right wing party.

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