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Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on Yesterday at 10:02:37 PMYou mentioned something called liquid democracy in another thread and I am attracted to that system. I believe the German Pirate Party uses it to some extent. Do you have ideas on how it might be implemented in Talossa? Florencia's constitutional reform has the potential for radical solutions.

A more straightforward form of this would be proxy voting. Florencians would be given the choice of claiming a seat in the assembly directly, or to delegate their seat to someone else. M-M already operates under this system, but I don't remember the last time votes were delegated there.

@Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be @mximo Governor and Senator, this is something to be considered in Florencia's Constitutional Reform Committee once you all are ready to dig in.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on Yesterday at 10:02:37 PMYou mentioned something called liquid democracy in another thread and I am attracted to that system. I believe the German Pirate Party uses it to some extent. Do you have ideas on how it might be implemented in Talossa? Florencia's constitutional reform has the potential for radical solutions.

A more straightforward form of this would be proxy voting. Florencians would be given the choice of claiming a seat in the assembly directly, or to delegate their seat to someone else. M-M already operates under this system, but I don't remember the last time votes were delegated there.

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Quote from: Moinul Moin on February 21, 2026, 09:35:20 AMfavorite food/Cusine

Polish cuisine is objectively the best.

To everyone ?

No just to him lol (he's ethnically Polish)


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Oh! Just caught it,Haha, ethnical things are always loved by every ethnic😀

Quote from: Crement Itravilatx on February 21, 2026, 01:09:19 PMI like yokan and natto (fermented soybeans). Many do not like natto as they find the smell and texture to be unappealing but the flavor is great.

Traditional Japanese?

Yes, they are both quite traditional. My grandmother also liked them.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on Today at 07:55:12 AMWell for clarity, I feel like I do. If we could have some help with funding, I'm happy to proceed, if a group of us are intrested that is, I don't want to have to solo it. Set us up as a group, point me in the direction of any Talossan music we already have, we may want some governmental oversight via MinProp, as well as direct ties to governmental agendas and events.

What is your back of the envelope funding idea?  The original idea of the King was to provide a place for playing of musical hits associated with the kingdom. that could be accomplished with a Spotify or Pandora list. If it's something that's evolving into news and information or other custom content, a more detailed plan would need to be built.  An interim step there might be to associate with an existing public station that has web broadcasting, make requests there for songs, and also place public service announcements that would be read occasionally.  This could prototype any kind of station that the kingdom would eventually enable.

All of the above should now be correctly reflected!

Additionally, I've been hard at work at correcting and integrating the official historical record; I will give everyone an update in a more relevant thread later.

Well for clarity, I feel like I do. If we could have some help with funding, I'm happy to proceed, if a group of us are intrested that is, I don't want to have to solo it. Set us up as a group, point me in the direction of any Talossan music we already have, we may want some governmental oversight via MinProp, as well as direct ties to governmental agendas and events.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Yesterday at 06:32:49 PMI don't want to let this die on the vine, so I'm giving a little nudge, @Tierçéu Rôibeardescù, @Mximo Malt, @Barclamïu da Miéletz, and @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP.  Would it be helpful for me to help get some stuff set up?

I don't know how to set it up, so unfortunately not, no.

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on Yesterday at 07:16:24 PMMy favourite form of government is probably a parliamentary democracy with an executive presidency.

From what I can tell, presidentialism is probably some flavour of undemocratic (a single president can never adequately represent a whole population, and should not be entrusted with sweeping powers), but in conventional parliamentary setups, presidents are kinda pointless figureheads. So instead of having a powerless figurehead president kinda-not-really in charge, the Prime Minister could (and in most cases already does) act as the head of state when representing the country abroad for instance, while still requiring the confidence of parliament to remain in office. Power would ultimately remain with parliament.

As for my favourite voting system: I found out about approval voting a few years ago, and I've been especially intrigued by sequential proportional approval voting as a means of electing proportional parliaments that is both 1) not reliant on political parties and 2) easier to explain, conduct and tabulate than ranked choice methods. I dunno, something about this is just neat to me.

I've never liked a combined head of state and head of government. In the US, for example, we have seldom had presidents who have been able to succeed at both. I therefore tend to view parliamentary republics like India with a symbolic (with some reserve powers for exceptional use) presidency and a prime minister as head of day-to-day administration favorably. If Talossa became a republic then I would suggest looking to the Irish presidency (long term of office, reserve powers, officially described as "first citizen") as an example or if I had my druthers a collective directory with a rotating "first among equals" symbolic president like Switzerland.

You mentioned something called liquid democracy in another thread and I am attracted to that system. I believe the German Pirate Party uses it to some extent. Do you have ideas on how it might be implemented in Talossa? Florencia's constitutional reform has the potential for radical solutions.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on February 01, 2026, 10:01:32 PMUpper House Reform: The "Upper House of Review Amendment", which despite some disinformation to the contrary, does not establish unicameralism, actually removes the ability of the Senate to perpetually block standard legislation.

Push forward with this.

QuoteVoting Method Reform: Sir Marcel has suggested Proportional Approval Voting before. For my part, I prefer panachage, but I'm interested in further discussion at any rate.

I suggest we just have a plank for personalised proportional representation - any system that combines proportional representation for parties with effective control by voters over who, actually, gets Cosa seats. So that might be any of the above plus that old favourite, STV.

QuotePublic Ballot Reform: Do we want to address the possibility of removing the public ballot? I think a more moderate position could be found where votes using the thread are only publicized after polling closes, but that's just my two bence, and depends on Witt's technical abilities.

Very much in favour of the second. Still, I can imagine a "protest vote" situation where reactionaries insist on voting on a public Witt thread and challenge the SoS not to count it.

QuoteParty List Reform: I have an act drafted (coming soon to a Hopper near you) that would make it so off-list citizens can only receive seats if no listed candidates are eligible to receive them. Are we in favor of something like that?

Yes.

QuoteParty List Reform 2: Should we propose legislation requiring citizens to consent to appearing on a party list?

Hell yes.

QuoteRoyal Veto Reform: Miestra has proposed some changes to the royal veto, including possibly eliminating it for Organic amendments in favor of the referendum as the "people's veto". It would also include an analogous procedure to the "Irish advisory opinion" she has described elsewhere. Thoughts?

Thinking about it more, perhaps I would still be in favour of a "suspensory veto"; the King can still veto a bill, to give the Ziu a "are you REALLY sure about this" speech, but the veto can be overridden by a simple majority. Combined with the "take this to the CpI to see if it's Organic" option which can be used after or instead of the first one.

My favourite form of government is probably a parliamentary democracy with an executive presidency.

From what I can tell, presidentialism is probably some flavour of undemocratic (a single president can never adequately represent a whole population, and should not be entrusted with sweeping powers), but in conventional parliamentary setups, presidents are kinda pointless figureheads. So instead of having a powerless figurehead president kinda-not-really in charge, the Prime Minister could (and in most cases already does) act as the head of state when representing the country abroad for instance, while still requiring the confidence of parliament to remain in office. Power would ultimately remain with parliament.

As for my favourite voting system: I found out about approval voting a few years ago, and I've been especially intrigued by sequential proportional approval voting as a means of electing proportional parliaments that is both 1) not reliant on political parties and 2) easier to explain, conduct and tabulate than ranked choice methods. I dunno, something about this is just neat to me.