wheelreinventor.bsky.social
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Permanently banning smaller vehicles/micromobility for “safety” then allowing larger ones. Great policymaking!
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People also object to me being a "non-expert".
My background is merely that I vote in both NZ and Australian elections, in NZ my vote goes directly to more rep for my choice, in Australia it doesn't, and I think that's bad!
Why is that not a valid perspective?
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I'm puzzled by the pushback I've gotten against "wasted vote".
People don't have to like it, but I think it's a great way of quantifying:
- non proportionality
- why swing seats matter
The main objection seems to be that it's "unorthodox". But who cares, if it leads to valid conclusions?
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Either you are (in your typical fashion) being extremely obtuse and bad faith here or you simply lack high school level reading comprehension skills
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Why do think political parties focus on swing seats rather than very safe or very hostile seats?
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Oh i see this is some weird credentialism or insider/outsider thing. Boooooring.
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Yes, I already said that. You clearly agree with the article in broad terms so why get so aggressively personal about how much you hate it?
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Yeah. You’ve made the identical conclusion to the article here, the same article you think is bad, so it’s obvious you simply didn’t read it at all. bsky.app/profile/poll...
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Getting a lot of “didn’t actually read the article” vibes from this post. Like, it’s a very straightforward description of disproportionality and why that’s a problem. If you find that incoherent that’s on you and your reading comprehension
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> He also rails against bicycle helmets - according to him wearing one does more damage than not wearing one.
I have never said this.
What I have said is that mandatory helmet laws discourage cycling (particularly wrt bike share), which increases car use/crashes/injuries/deaths.
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The Greens outcome is because of the electoral system that is rigged for the major parties - the results actually barely changed from last time. The Greens got 2.6x less first prefs than the ALP but will get about 90x less seats - it's a joke of a system.
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A shame to see public transport advocates supporting wasting money on fare gates instead of using that money (over a billion) on better services.
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If you add up all the losing votes in each seat (losing votes don’t elect anybody) and all the excess winning votes (excess winning votes don’t elect anybody) it adds up to around 60% of all lower house votes.
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Actually 60% of votes are wasted and receive no representation at all due to single member electorates
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The Greens actually did fine and got only ~2.6% less primary vote than the ALP - what undid them was Australia's non-proportional electoral system.
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jacobin.com/2024/10/aust...
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Not about "not getting your first preference" elected (which is another big problem), it's about not getting anybody elected at all.
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Not true, unfortunately. 60% of votes are wasted: www.youtube.com/shorts/QfIGg...
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He is a TV presenter that misleads people by omission (never mentions problems with the current voting system)
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Don’t be silly. If he started campaigning about voting system reform you don’t think anybody would take notice?
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What’s so special about reading out election results?
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I would say that he’s done the nation a terrible disservice by being the face of what is actually a very bad+non-proportional voting system.
He’s one of the main reasons that we still have two party rule in spite of declining major party vote share.
He has the platform to push reform but doesn’t.
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Simon just blocked me for no apparent reason. Not very civil
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The common theme here is that both measures excessively target and harm the poor in the name of their “health”.
Fines and consumption taxes inherently discriminate against those on low incomes.
And as we’ve seen, their enforcement has harmful side effects more broadly in both cases.