Lol, I'm not gonna pretend Taiwan politics aren't fucked up but there's no argument by which Taiwan "isn't a democracy" and the US is
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(Back in the day Edison tried to sell an "instant voting system" to Congress using simple early electronics and was sternly rebuffed for this reason Voting taking a long time, so you can do more politics while voting, is a feature)
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(This kind of thing, by the way, is why I'm so disgusted by people saying that Taiwan or other Asian countries are populated by meek, compliant, naturally-cooperative Borg drones It's a stereotype that can't survive any actual knowledge of the country you're talking about)
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This is really badass on the one hand, but on the other, as a former LA I'm annoyed at the Speaker for not finding a better solution than forcing staff to play 52 vote pickup every time someone wants more time to negotiate.
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Usually in practice they just call the recess right away and they get swept up
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