Forget german tanks making way to moscow by itself, I’m now shitting myself thinking of the ramifications of the giant-ass hole Israel’d have blown through the caucuses to be beelining it over land!

The Jewish Homeland argument has gone full irredentism and now we’ve got a revived Khazar Khaganate!

This has actually been studied

Anti-Authoritarians and Moderates view it as best to be seen as Anti-Authoritarians, Authoritarians view it best to be seen as Moderates.

They literally view opportunistic claiming of the center not just as a political tool but as a social survival tactic to not be ostracized for their bullshit.

Thanks I hate it.

Yeah, and that’s not needed when the senate can perform that role just as well and also be a more functioning version of itself for it.

There is no need for a singular focalpoint of elected power.

There would be no independent executive branch, the very concept inevitably endangers democratic systems by creating a person with a lot of power who inherently is going to view any disagreement of course of action from the people’s representatives as an obstacle to be gotten around.

Or have you missed all the headlines about the over reliance reliance on executive orders over the past decade and change? Not to mention how the fiat veto was never intended but instead the result of Andrew Jackson just deciding he didn’t have to give congress a reason why their laws were being treated with the same energy as shit that was at a minimum arguably unconstitutional up to that point.

The independent executive is a leach that parasitically sucks power away from the elected representatives of the people, and imposes “checks” on their powers that not only are entirely unneeded, but actively endanger the health of the republic.

Everywhere that’s tried american style democracy since the US formed has collapsed in dramatic fashion, everywhere else that’s gone with a parliamentary system has at worst had periods of endangerment, mostly caused by a parliamentary leader trying to get the powers of an american style president, gestures wildly at Orban and Erdogan

I believe we need to abolish the presidency in the near future and distribute the powers to the House and Senate. Powers of government to the House and Powers of State to the Senate, with some fudging for checks and balances, like house passes laws and Senate has to intervene to veto them with some qualified majority rules like the EU has.

I believe this has to be done because it’s pretty clear that a system with a single powerful leader inherently puts all the strain and division of the nation into that leader, especially when there’s no recourse when public sentiment turns against that leader except for voting them out, if that’s even an option to begin with.

A dual-parliamentary system with some restructuring of the House and Senate would go a LONG way in venting a significant amount of the pressure that has built up under our elected leaders as of late.

Also replace the singular supreme court with a sortitionate bench that’s drawn randomly for each case that rises to federal jurisdiction to shoot jurisdiction shopping dead.

Basically for a race with multiple open seats, just keep repeating the “compare the top two rated candidates” step filling each seat with the winner of the comparison until all seats are filled, doesn’t just fill seats though, because the win matrix can also be used as a list of succession in case of recalls or deaths or resignations that’d leave a vacancy.

We’d see a lot of districts seat all dems and reps at the outset, but over time you’d see a much more diverse cast and a much less party hierarchy controllable process.

Being economically fucked over doesn’t make you not a racist dirtbag, especially when you keep voting for the racist dirtbags who have done nothing for you except validate racist dirtbag behavior.

Like seriously, it’s pretty fucking hard to beat the racism allegations when that’s literally the only possible draw the people you keep electing could possibly have.

These people vote against their own economic interests, and they see it as the price they pay to feel like they can defend saying the N-Word at the dinner table this thanksgiving.

My big wish is multi-winner STAR where possible.

Doesn’t just make viable 3rd parties a reality, but makes it incredibly likely for them to get a leg into the race a lot sooner.

Instituting it at the congressional level can also eliminate the traditional stresses of coalition building that affect other multi-partisan democracies, because now when the government experiences a no confidence vote and the leader has to resign, we don’t need new elections and new coalition talks, just go back to the original coalition vote results and promote the next guy in charge into the officer position that was vacated, voilà, new governing coalition ready to go.

There’s lightyears of difference between “stop throwing paint on statues and blocking roads” and “stop sitting on your privilege with your vote and allowing the disemprivileged to be meat grindered because you think this time it’ll teach the incredibly privileged who happen to be nearest to you politically a lesson.”

We can’t do those aqueduct screw things?

Honestly I’d be more relieved that there isn’t an ex in the picture she’s tied to via the kid!

Got a bit interested in AAVE when I happened to end up as the token white guy in a D&I club that was literally entirely black women and one AFAB Black NB.

Felt like a kid getting a gold star sticker when one of them said I was understanding their stuff better than the assigned prof who was a literal trained expert on the stuff, mostly because they was a real jackass.

Aggressively rubs barbecue sauce on a rotisserie chicken

“Yeah you like that don’t you, you slut!”

6 or 7, tried pegging with my GF, wasn’t offended enough by the experience to turn down her being giddy about doing it again.

Mildly worried that she’s buying something brand new specifically to use on me.

We also get thirds every so often when we want to have an occasion

This does make me wonder how expensive it’d be to set up a trans continental irrigation system, basically just moving surplus water in places like the southeast or northwest to drought locations like in california or the southwest to take the pressure off of local water resources.

Probably by certifying intent beforehand and having them provide exit support so you can go to Iran and spend the rest of your life there out of reach of US retaliation, assuming a minimal willingness to hunt you down in a foreign nation.

Things would probably get complicated if the regime collapsed though, non zero chance those 80 million dollars would become useless as a new state tries to establish its own monetary policy, and that’s assuming they aren’t western friendly and decide to extradite you to curry favor.

I don’t get why this was down voted, none of those points are asking much

I mean with all those hurricanes the man’s probably drowning in insurance premiums alone!

/S

The quote was a hyperbolic answer to someone sarcastically suggesting I was trying to act smarter than everyone else because the question is an infamous example of self styled philosophers simultaneously over and under thinking questions.

Overly obsessing the meaning they’ve read into what was originally posed as satire, and yet underthinking the details and implications of the scenarios they’re describing.

We are expected to take the question as if we were there in person and yet they are not expected to adhere to a setting in which we could be there in person.

It’s very “rules for thee…” and the fact that self proclaimed philosophers go so out of the way to insist on this supposed deep and foundational question really shoots the credibility of the profession to pieces if such a faulty question is actually as important to the lot as the people trying to insist I’m some uneducated ape for pointing out that “someone will die anyways” scenarios are inherently suspect.