Instant runoff voting with single-member districts still leads to a two-party system. Australia is a current practical example.

What you need is proportional representation with multi-member districts, or a mixed system with leveling seats.

It’s really remarkable how Americans have sleepwalked into stagnation without even noticing it. In 1979, the US was well ahead of East Germany in terms of living standards, human rights and quality of governance. Today, it is far behind in all of these aspects. What happened? Green line went down.

NFTs are not a good comparison, because NFTs were only ever a gambling instrument, lacking any practical application.

Instead, the dotcom bubble is a better comparison. E-commerce didn’t go away after the bubble burst. Likewise, AI will continue to have applications and be part of the economy - as it also was prior to the LLM-driven boom. It’s just that some of the more bullshitty aspects will disappear, and the remainder will have more sensible market valuations.

The social democrats were leading a coalition in the previous government. Their leader called an early election in the hopes of capitalizing on the Greenland issue. They perhaps did not perform as well in the recent election as they hoped, but they are poised to lead the next coalition government nonetheless.

Okay, but it’s Denmark, one of the most efficiently run countries in the world.

In fact, the top rankings of global economies by living standards are completely dominated by multi-party democracies, while two-party semi-democracies and dictatorships find it much more difficult to pass effective legislation.

It’s just a single outlier, his overall approval averaged over several polls is at 41% (RealClearPolling) or 40% (Nate Silver).

You can just hire a shipping container and send your stuff. Will cost you a couple grand.

An unveiling of a statue of Robert E. Lee is planned for next week.

I have lived in a couple of different countries and in total moved about 20 times or so. It’s really not that big a deal, but I do recommend throwing away most of your stuff. Most of what we have fits in a few boxes, aside from some cheap furniture.

Now is a good time to move away from the US because you are ahead of the large refugee waves that will come if and when things get really bad (but even if they don’t, it’s unlikely the US is going to catch up to Northern Europe economically any time soon). You do need to have a job lined up though, no Nordic country is going to give you a residence permit just because your grandparents were from there.

…and isn’t a top democracy.

None of the top democracies have term limits for their representatives. Term limits do nothing to prevent people from electing shitheads.

The logic is a bit weird though. Like picking up smoking out of solidarity because your buddy died of lung cancer.

And a bit cringe too, with the Facebook aunt “doing research”-line.

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

• H. L. Mencken