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15.10.2019, 22:27
| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: | |  | | | Ahem , no
Of course most people don’t broadcast what the do at the ballotbox. But I think for most people i count as my friends i think i know where they stand politically. At some point people do talk and if they don’t they often drop hints, sometimes unwittingly . | | | | | That’s poles apart from: | Quote: | |  | | | most locals I know are politically active and practicing their rightful entitlement | | | | | .
Which, frankly, sounds so pretentious and trite my toes are curling. | Quote: | |  | | | And actually Marton was questioning MusicChick’s statement by saying that the population on average don’t confirm MC’s observation. In other words he was assuming that MC’s friends must represent an average sample of the population. Seeing people chose their friends , nobody’s friends are an average sampling of the population . A somewhat fundamental error I think coming from someone whose arguments often revolve around statistics . | | | | | I thought it was ‘most locals’ rather than ‘most of my friends’. Devil’s in the detail.
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16.10.2019, 00:08
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| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: |  | | | The only advantage of being EU is that you can vote sooner in those countries that abolished the 3 year rule for EU citizens, or at least that's how I understand it.  | | | | | Actually it's a right. According to Wiki, EU citizenship grants (among other things) the right to vote and be elected on the municipal level, without waiting time, in whichever EU municipality you may have decided to settle. | Quote: |  | | | I thought it was ‘most locals’ rather than ‘most of my friends’. Devil’s in the detail. | | | | | Actually MC said "most locals I know". Indeed the devil's in the detail.
Are you sure it's not you who got triggered?
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| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: | |  | | | "most locals I know are politically active and practicing their rightful entitlement" You must know an interesting subset! The reality here is on average voter turnout for most elections is less than half; often down to a third. | | | | | Studies in political science, which look at participation in democratic decisions over a certain time period (usually one legislation period) showed that ca. 20% of voters from St. Gallen (which is fairly average in terms of voter turnout in CH) never use their voting rights, while 25% participate in all votes and around 55% only in selected votes. Hence, I would say that it is not as easy as to look at the turnout for one single election and to conclude that a majority of people are not interested in politics.
Also, several factors will increase the likelihood to be an "always voter"/frequent voter (aged between 61-75, male, living for 10+ years in the same area, born in CH and married). So, depending on the demographics of the people one looks at voting participation will vary and influence the perception of political participation/interest.
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16.10.2019, 07:13
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| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: | |  | | | That's not the question. Some were saying it is not enough and people should be allowed to vote federally. Some were saying that it's their right to vote locally since they don't feel like guests. I think to be able to vote on local issues while not being citizens is already a priviledge that doesn't exist where I am from. I think it is a pretty big risk and I don't think even C would be permanent enough for this. I do not think it's the taxes at all that inspired the locals to let new settlers have their say, there was a cash flow before. I think it is more progressive than many advanced societies, actually. Being a citizen show permanent motivation, language as integrative effort, understanding issues (not cosmetic ones like garbage collection). I have no idea about SVP agenda, btw. Nor do I know why they are popular, they seem different in quite a few issues than foreign conservative parties. | | | | | Yes, and this will push lots of people to get the Swiss citizenship for the wrong reasons. Voting for things that are not always in the locals' interest can also happen when you're a citizen, in fact I would argue it can happen even more.
Anyway, I personally don't agree with the "guests" thing. "Grateful" - in the larger sense, yes - hopefully. We might be grateful for lots of things, including that one that made it possible to be here in the first place (maybe the education system from back home? how fast we forget ...) but "guests" after all these years? No, I personally don't feel like one. Btw, I'm not interested in voting for the moment, this discussion is purely philosophical. I don't know what to believe about SVP but their tone and the assumptions they start from are definitely tiresome.
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16.10.2019, 07:24
| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: | |  | | | Actually it's a right. According to Wiki, EU citizenship grants (among other things) the right to vote and be elected on the municipal level, without waiting time, in whichever EU municipality you may have decided to settle. | | | | | Yes I know. The point I was attempting to make was that many of those countries allow ALL foreigners to vote. Not just EU. Nobody had appeared to looked at the link, though, at that stage. | Quote: | |  | | | Actually MC said "most locals I know". Indeed the devil's in the detail.
Are you sure it's not you who got triggered? | | | | | (Sigh) Yes, perhaps she did but, again, the point was amogles was assuming she had said ’her friends’ and was using that as some kind of reasoning to argue about the company that marton keeps (weird, I know).
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| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: |  | | | The point I was attempting to make was that many of those countries allow ALL foreigners to vote. Not just EU. Nobody had appeared to looked at the link, though, at that stage. | | | | | I read it, only about 5 countries (mainly nordic) allow non-EU to vote at all, the rest are EU only.
That is a few, not 'many'.
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| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: | |  | | | I read it, only about 5 countries (mainly nordic) allow non-EU to vote at all, the rest are EU only.
That is a few, not 'many'. 
Tom | | | | | Whether those amazing places let new people vote or not (they will soon curb this "right" anyways, give them 10 years) or not isn't really that important after all, honestly. Whether we are moving to live there right at this point is important. And we are not, are we, nor likely to be any time soon.
To be allowed to vote while not going through the process of showing that this place matters is indeed a privilege. It a priori integrates newcomers. Hence a gesture of good will that we'd not see many other places.
To be granted privileges without earning them, does imho call for appreciation. And yet you still have new settlers who insist on entitlement and prefer to call themselves "not guests" yet not doing the legwork. Not up to them what they are going to be perceived like by the local community, is it. Guests.
The question I get asked here isn't "have you tied your recycling correctly" but "are you going to vote...because we are offering this opportunity". And they are absolutely right. Plus they take care of an inventory of political choices for us that is now unseen elsewhere, due to the PC bs. You can't even have a decent debate in other countries these days since people will shame you or bully you for your political views. It happens here on EF too. Trying to preserve this inventory, a choice of political views here is an uphill battle and an unpleasant one, too. SVP might be popular because it reminds people that in CH you can have a party that rubs in all the taboos that others tiptoe around and pretend that they don't exist. Despite not knowing anyone who'd really support them, so it is a wild guess on my part.
Being able to exist here in CH comes with homework and I am not really talking about vaccuming the sidewalk in front of our building. Nor do I see this homework because I am a teacher, lol. Learning a language is only a start of personal responsibility, etc.
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16.10.2019, 08:42
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| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: |  | | | Yes I know. The point I was attempting to make was that many of those countries allow ALL foreigners to vote. Not just EU. Nobody had appeared to looked at the link, though, at that stage.
(Sigh) Yes, perhaps she did but, again, the point was amogles was assuming she had said ’her friends’ and was using that as some kind of reasoning to argue about the company that marton keeps (weird, I know).
I’m not a ‘triggered’ kind of person more ‘mildly amused’  | | | | | Is this the reason why you keep aggressively neg repping me behind the scene?
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16.10.2019, 09:06
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| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: | |  | | | To be allowed to vote while not going through the process of showing that this place matters is indeed a privilege. It a priori integrates newcomers. Hence a gesture of good will that we'd not see many other places.
To be granted privileges without earning them, does imho call for appreciation. And yet you still have new settlers who insist on entitlement and prefer to call themselves "not guests" yet not doing the legwork. Not up to them what they are going to be perceived like by the local community, is it. Guests.
. | | | | | How presumptuous of you to think people didn't earn their privileges. Or is just you that earned them?
Whatever you do here, please, stop.
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16.10.2019, 09:12
| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: | |  | | | Is this the reason why you keep aggressively neg repping me behind the scene? | | | | | "Keep" neg repping you suggests it happens regularly. It's happened once and it was deserved. Are you somehow immune to positive and negative rep?
Anyway, I think the question in this thread "Why is the SVP popular?" has answered itself. There is a significant wodge of people who prefer to invent scenarios and present them as fact as a sort of confirmation bias to their own views. "The local people in my village think xyz..." or "The other European countries don't allow non-EU residents to vote". Facts don't matter, feelings and comforting anecdotes seem to trump all sense and reason.
That is the reason the SVP is popular. They cash in on it.
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16.10.2019, 09:23
| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: |  | | | "Keep" neg repping you suggests it happens regularly. It's happened once and it was deserved. Are you somehow immune to positive and negative rep? . | | | | | Don't worry. Another friendly mod will be along shortly to "rectify" her rep like last time. | This user would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
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| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: |  | | |
Anyway, I think the question in this thread "Why is the SVP popular?" has answered itself. There is a significant wodge of people who prefer to invent scenarios and present them as fact as a sort of confirmation bias to their own views. "The local people in my village think xyz..." or "The other European countries don't allow non-EU residents to vote". Facts don't matter, feelings and comforting anecdotes seem to trump all sense and reason.
That is the reason the SVP is popular. They cash in on it.
| | | | | It is definitely less popular among my Swiss acquaintances where people don't label other people the way MC assumes they do.
In fact, people seem to appreciate our (foreigners') contribution - in taxes and otherwise, yes, they exercise gratitude too. Funny how some think it should be only unilateral, I guess they have a reason for that.
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16.10.2019, 09:45
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| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: | |  | | |
Actually MC said "most locals I know". Indeed the devil's in the detail.
Are you sure it's not you who got triggered?
| | | | | Since we’re being pedantic in this thread
“Most locals I know” is not the same thing as friends. 
You can know somebody without being friends with them.
As you say the devil’s in the detail. | Quote: | |  | | | Is this the reason why you keep aggressively neg repping me behind the scene? | | | | | Whinging about rep comments ? Isn’t that a bit childish?
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16.10.2019, 10:24
| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: |  | | | Don't worry. Another friendly mod will be along shortly to "rectify" her rep like last time.  | | | | | I'm sorry, are you intimating that some of us are more equal than others? Colour me shocked. My gaster flabbered.
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16.10.2019, 10:34
| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: | |  | | | Whether those amazing places let new people vote or not (they will soon curb this "right" anyways, give them 10 years) or not isn't really that important after all, honestly. Whether we are moving to live there right at this point is important. And we are not, are we, nor likely to be any time soon.
To be allowed to vote while not going through the process of showing that this place matters is indeed a privilege. It a priori integrates newcomers. Hence a gesture of good will that we'd not see many other places.
To be granted privileges without earning them, does imho call for appreciation. And yet you still have new settlers who insist on entitlement and prefer to call themselves "not guests" yet not doing the legwork. Not up to them what they are going to be perceived like by the local community, is it. Guests.
The question I get asked here isn't "have you tied your recycling correctly" but "are you going to vote...because we are offering this opportunity". And they are absolutely right. Plus they take care of an inventory of political choices for us that is now unseen elsewhere, due to the PC bs. You can't even have a decent debate in other countries these days since people will shame you or bully you for your political views. It happens here on EF too. Trying to preserve this inventory, a choice of political views here is an uphill battle and an unpleasant one, too. SVP might be popular because it reminds people that in CH you can have a party that rubs in all the taboos that others tiptoe around and pretend that they don't exist. Despite not knowing anyone who'd really support them, so it is a wild guess on my part.
Being able to exist here in CH comes with homework and I am not really talking about vaccuming the sidewalk in front of our building. Nor do I see this homework because I am a teacher, lol. Learning a language is only a start of personal responsibility, etc. | | | | |
What are you trying to say here? All I got was vacuuming.
Deep breath.
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16.10.2019, 10:39
| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: |  | | | I'm sorry, are you intimating that some of us are more equal than others? Colour me shocked. My gaster flabbered. | | | | | Well, once upon a time, there was a moderator called Jrspet.
Jrspet was very concerned about the possibility of all the wealth of information stored on EF disappearing into the void should there be a meteorite strike or Soviet missile attack or something, so he saved it all. All of it. Even stuff we mortals can't see.
Jrspet also looked out for his chums, and once decided that MC had a couple of hundred fewer rep points than she clearly deserved, so he fixed that too.
He was a fine moderator, was Jrspet. Not as fine as Ace1, but who could be?
Fine, fine people.
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16.10.2019, 10:47
| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: |  | | | Well, once upon a time, there was a moderator called Jrspet.
Jrspet was very concerned about the possibility of all the wealth of information stored on EF disappearing into the void should there be a meteorite strike or Soviet missile attack or something, so he saved it all. All of it. Even stuff we mortals can't see.
Jrspet also looked out for his chums, and once decided that MC had a couple of hundred fewer rep points than she clearly deserved, so he fixed that too.
He was a fine moderator, was Jrspet. Not as fine as Ace1, but who could be?
Fine, fine people. | | | | | Ah, I remember those days. Are we back to those days again..?
Jrspet was a creep. He got up to all sorts, spying on everyone. I guess he must've read private rep comments and banned folks too.
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16.10.2019, 11:20
| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: | |  | | | Ah, I remember those days. Are we back to those days again..?
Jrspet was a creep. He got up to all sorts, spying on everyone. I guess he must've read private rep comments and banned folks too. | | | | | Maybe a slap upside the head would have helped?
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| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: |  | | | Well, once upon a time, there was a moderator called Jrspet.
Jrspet was very concerned about the possibility of all the wealth of information stored on EF disappearing into the void should there be a meteorite strike or Soviet missile attack or something, so he saved it all. All of it. Even stuff we mortals can't see.
Jrspet also looked out for his chums, and once decided that MC had a couple of hundred fewer rep points than she clearly deserved, so he fixed that too.
He was a fine moderator, was Jrspet. Not as fine as Ace1, but who could be?
Fine, fine people. | | | | | Oh I remember that, it caused quite a commotion at the time.
I didn’t know about the rep points, though. That really is an abuse of power.
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16.10.2019, 11:53
| | Re: Why is SVP popular? | Quote: |  | | | Well, once upon a time, there was a moderator called Jrspet.
Jrspet was very concerned about the possibility of all the wealth of information stored on EF disappearing into the void should there be a meteorite strike or Soviet missile attack or something, so he saved it all. All of it. Even stuff we mortals can't see.
Jrspet also looked out for his chums, and once decided that MC had a couple of hundred fewer rep points than she clearly deserved, so he fixed that too.
He was a fine moderator, was Jrspet. Not as fine as Ace1, but who could be?
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