Leizhev
1mo ago
Do you mean filtered like a mod action, that the perspective in the OP is through a filter, or something else I'm missing? No animus, genuinely don't understand.
Leizhev
1mo ago
A LKY or Bukele type dictator might be able to cut through said coordination problems, of course that runs the risk of rolling a terrible dictator/their successor being trash. I'm not dogmatically anti-democratic, I simply want less democracy (net taxpayers only voting would be nice). Are you arguing that people are running to parties that arguably would make things worse (EFF in SA, Greens in UK) is also part of the coordination problem?
Leizhev
1mo ago
Let's discuss democracy, and the decay and potential recovery of two anglo-origin democracies.
South Africa is clearly having a rough time at the moment. Anemic growth, mass joblessness, the spread of slums, ultraviolence on the streets.
The party largely responsible for this the ANC has a declining vote share but still commands the loyalty of a plurality of the electorate. In addition, most of the parties opposing the ANC are not exactly free marketer reformers of the type that might rapidly turn some of these issues around. Since Apartheid ended more than 20 years ago and these trends are deepening, it seems that the decay has not swayed most voters away from the policies that caused the issues.
A friend of mine said that he has full faith in the UK (Great Britain) to recover fully from its current woes, because one day voters will wake up and see that governance is terrible and getting worse, and they will vote for the opposition who will fix things.
Certainly, some of the parties in the Yookay are trying to fix things through structural economic and social reforms (Reform, Restore), but the plurality of voters including young voters favor parties that would either deepen or continue the issues (Greens, Labour, Muslim Indie Bloc)
Note: from the perspective of this poaster the main issues facing the UK are: Low Skill Immigration, Economic Stagnation, Integration of Non-European Migrants, Crime
So I ask the Motte: Do you believe that in anglo origin democracies that enough decay will have voters seek out parties with effective fixes for the issues, or merely cause voters to slowly rebel against the incumbents?
Leizhev
1mo ago
At least he is not fully integrated with the slopMatrix yet. There is still hope. Out of curiosity, lets say he made a new account, and started posting in this thread as the author, but with real human TM responses. Would he be banned again automatically for evasion or given a second chance?
Most of the replies in this thread read as LLM output. Is that accurate? If I wanted to talk to the bot you've been working with I'd just throw your doc in GPT.
That aside, your proposed amendments are so full of contradictions a lawyers could drive a bus through them. For example: forbidding race based discrimination and elevating the founding culture/religion - Choose one! If a municipality wanted to ship in 10k patriotic new Brits to replace 10k Somalis you'd probably be happy, and your assimilation amendment forbids that (race based discrimination).
And even if I waved a wand and moved all these objections aside, what would be much more useful than a manifesto would be a simple, several paragraph post on what you want the US to be. Start from first principles: what you'd like, then we can evaluate the efficacy of how you want to get there.
I don't want to drive you off from the Motte, but I don't think this is the way to start a conversation
Edit: Ok I gave you far too much credit. Annexing the anglosphere? This is not a serious set of proposals (capping the IRS employment while building an Empire? Ha!).
Ah that makes sense. Filters for new accounts seem prudent.
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