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What’s more chilling than Trump’s presidency? The fact that we use the same system that just handed him total control... If we want to protect democracy in Canada, we need proportional representation. (bsky.app)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40140681

Fair Vote Canada on Bluesky

What’s more chilling than Trump’s presidency? The fact that we use the same system that just handed him total control.

First-past-the-post fuels a hyper-partisan two-party system.

If we want to protect democracy in Canada, we need proportional representation.

#cdnpoli

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[–] AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What did Padme say?

[–] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1FFVWEQnSM

I seem to remember she said "Democracy", but all the clips say "Liberty" so the actual quote is

"So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause"

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Probably a conflation of this scene with the one where Palpatine says "I love democracy".

[–] AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Liberty and democracy are one and the same. If Canadian democracy goes down (of which we are witnessing now), at the very least we should put up a fight.