Yip, Botswana just had their ruling party of 50 years lose drastically in this year's election, but still a peaceful transition of power is taking place. In South Africa, the ruling party since the start of a democratic South Africa, failed to secure a majority and instead formed a government of national unity with opposition. Also entirely peaceful. Japan (effectively) and UK also had their governments flipped.

Lot's going on and not a general shift to left or right, just a shift to "the opposition".

A lot of the “Trump won because….” takes feel incredibly US-myopic. This was the year of more democratic elections across the world than almost any other and nearly all of them “surprised” in how strongly they voted against the party in power (both left and right). The universal rule of politics remains undefeated - people vote their pocket books.

It’s a philosophical thing. I don’t think there is a “correct” answer for any one country as the makeup of people differs accordingly. Some are pretty homogenous societies, so direct democracies where each vote is counted equally, with no “first past the post” system, works for them.

I must say that electors in each state should at least somewhat proportionally vote according to the state’s result. All republicans in California could have effectively not voted. Same as democrats in Texas. It’s as if their votes are worthless.

Then you still have “rural” votes worth more than “city” votes, but you don’t have wasted votes.

That's why the Democrats have been wanting to redistrict the congressional voting lines so they can pick up more candidates to be able to remove the electoral college. That's also why in 2016 Obama left open over 200 federal judge seats so Hillary could have placed in there judges.

The electoral college gives rural voters a voice so major cities have a harder time making all the rules through mob rule. This is the difference between a democracy and a Constitutional Republic.

A lot of people don't understand how a "democracy" is actually a step backwards in comparison to what America currently has for a governing system.

Good thing.

Republicans will have serious work to do if a direct democracy were to be the status quo in America. The electoral college is their saving grace.

Free Ross

Uncover 9/11 conspiracy

Uncover JFK conspiracy

Defund NSA

Implement direct democrazy

Nationalize federal reserve banks

Reimplement gold covered dollar

Not a wishlist, this is what I expect from a "anti-deepstate" president.

The beauty of Pretoria in October/November 💜

The same warning was given for users of .me and .ai. Territories and countries have full sovereign right to make rules for their ccTLDs. And ICANN removes them when the territory ceases to exist as was the case for Yugoslavia.

At least Serbia is very happy and supports the use of .rs for Rust projects. Their regulator issued a statement about it.

Two letter global generic TLDs are explicitly against the rules of ICANN

Seems unlikely.. won’t they just make it a generic TLD? It’s not like any of the existing sites are related to the territory anyway! 😅