Austrian elections?!

[hollodero]

(10-16-2017, 08:51 PM)Dill Wrote: Haderer is fantastic too, but I thought he was German. (Please don't be angry.)

I'm of course angry as hell. How dare you not to check for every person you come across on the possibility he's actually Austrian. You did it with Hitler, you might as well do it for the few good ones.

(10-17-2017, 02:10 AM)RICHMONDBENGAL_07 Wrote: So Hollodero, is there no age limit to holds the Prime Ministers office?  I was reading in the paper today that he (I think his name Kurr?) is only 31 years old.   Is this correct?  Seems kind of young for a position such a position.

Kurz, Sebastian "Basti Fantasti" Kurz. Which means "short", but never mind that.
And I know I'm supposed to have some expertise, but why people went for boycharm, I do not grasp either. He made a Macron, reinvented, recolored and renamed his party (after himself), people in Austria have a tendency to like autocratic tendencies and obviously are eager to beelieve something is "new", even though the party was in power for a thousand years.

Also the voting lists were strictly set up after the "male-female-male-female" principle. Now since the conservative party often has a quite conservative image of women, only a few female politicians were drawn to that party in the first place. Now imagine what quality we get out of this small pool of women that now constitutes 50% of lawmakers. It's really as bad as one might think.

(10-17-2017, 08:42 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: There are pros and cons, but I still favor a representative democracy over a technocracy.

Sure... although there are times I'm not so sure. We just had a campaign that really only was a race to dumbness, and it gets worse every time. Each party had to appeal to the lowest barrel of intellect there is. Including spreading lies and misinformation that could easily be debunked as stupid lie if only people were still capable of using half a brain. I can't stop thinking about how we (in Europe) widely agree that communism might be a good idea in theory, but can't work because people are too ambitious and greedy. In the same sense I think democracy is a great idea that just can't work because people are too stupid.

(10-17-2017, 09:05 AM)michaelsean Wrote: And a perfectly good Austria thread goes nerd.  We could be talking beer and blonds with big boobs

Beer is good.
As for the women, you mistake us for Sweden.