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  • that has no historical data to support it and whose majority of subjects have not consented to participate in.

    What?

    America is already the result of accelerationism…

    What do you think the Boston Tea party was?

    England seized smuggled tea, it would have put smugglers out of business.

    Smugglers threw legal tea off British ships in response. Now the colonies had to choose expensive legal tea or expensive smuggled tea.

    And that was used as a way to make people made at the King, when if the smugglers hadn’t of destroyed the legal tea, colonist would be paying the same price they always had, except instead of a small group of smugglers, the taxes went to the government that ensured the colonists safety (somewhat).

    Our country is fucking built on accelerationism, there’s tons of historical data from here and all over, like France obviously.

    Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t.


  • What do you expect the leaders of the DNC to do?

    If they don’t rig the primary so a neoliberal will win, then they risk a progressive running, flipping a bunch of red states like Obama in 08, and then they get to set the DNC leadership and party direction.

    Which means the current neoliberals with a stranglehold on the party would lose their positions.

    They won’t get as lucky again as 08 when Obama just ignored them.

    DNC leadership care more about themselves then voters or the country.

    The only other explanation is because they current just go with whoever can bundle the most money to determine leadership…

    Corporations and billionaires are donating to the Dem party along with the Republican party thru the absolute stupidest fundraisers they can find to make voters hate the DNC…

    And I just don’t think they’re that smart.

    But the only way the people who pick the next round of DNC leaders isn’t the current round of DNC leaders, is when a Dem wins the general.

    Which is why even when we do get an ineffectual moderate in, nothing fucking changes because to thank the DNC for getting them to the general, they maintain leadership.

    Literally the only way shit gets better is a progressive president




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    California doesn’t have to listen to Montana.

    They have to listen to federal law and each person in Montana has way more federal representation thru the electoral college for president, Senate because every state gets two, and House because the number of seats are frozen.

    Both chambers and the Oval they have more representation.

    How is that not the minority telling the majority what to do?

    Like, this has to be working even a little right?

    There’s no shred of doubt in there?

    Because buddy, I got doubts on how much I’m gonna be able to help you understand, I can’t make this any simpler. So hopefully you needed just that one comment.



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    A government where the senate is eliminated, and California is free to impose itself against the will of Wyoming and Montana would be “populist” at best, and there are much more fitting terms

    Right, like “democracy”.

    Where the direction is chosen by what theajority of people want.

    Currently we have a system where a minority of the people tell the rest what to do…


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    The vast majority of human history involved dictatorial regimes imposing their will on the unwilling.

    And modern events are apparently still similar…

    like 35% of the country voted for trump, most Americans disagree with their plans, it’s just the only other option was still pretty shitty

    But this?

    but you cannot reasonably describe such a government as “democratic”.

    Oh shit…

    We’re close…

    Would you consider that more “republican”?


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    That means if you want to govern Wyoming and Montana, you have to get a majority of Wyoming and Montana residents to agree to your plan.

    The vast majority of human history disagrees…

    Hell, modern events disagree, like 35% of the country voted for trump, most Americans disagree with their plans, it’s just the only other option was still pretty shitty



  • You forget why trump is even a thing in national politics…

    In 2015 when the primaries happened Hillary’s campaign controlled the DNC and pushed for trump because he was the worst possible opponent and they thought it would scare people into voting for Hillary despite her being wildly unpopular.

    They’re 1 out of 3, but the DNC leadership loves trump because he lets them run even less popular moderates and take bribes from even worse industries/billionaires while still having a 33% chance of winning.

    To them, it’s a smart bet.

    Which is why we shouldn’t let them anywhere near the DNC.

    They could have easily beat trump, but the want the awful “compromises” they say they have to do to win elections. It’s why they keep saying it despite it never helping


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    While I’m sure that has done a lot of good.

    Unfortunately we’re talking about representative democracy, and that’s probably the opposite.

    By no means am I an expert on Nebraska, but lm pretty sure the majority are conservative and voted for that awful shit.

    But setting up a system of government that isn’t really a democracy because you think voters are too stupid (in Nebraska you may be right) to vote in their own self interest is literally what got us to where we are nationally today. And what people are brainstorming about how to fix.


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    Trying to fix our original system of government and update it for modern day iis like trying to turn a race horse into a Formula 1 racecar…

    If you spend enough money and take enough time you could conceivably say you did it.

    But why the fuck wouldn’t you just switch to a racecar when the racehorse couldn’t run anymore?

    Why put the horse thru all that when you’re going to have to spend all that time with a freak combination as your only mode of transportation?

    In this analogy it’s not just weeks or months, we’re talking decades and generations. Arguably centuries.

    Hell, the first time universal healthcare was part of a presidential platform was Teddy Roosevelt literally a century ago.

    We were born in the time of the geriatric racehorse pulling the racecar like a cart, and we need to decide if we’re gonna keep going for slow change, or just get it over with.

    Cuz damn near anything we could be doing right now would give us better results. Especially since our parents are in the driver’s seat of the racecar since they can’t walk on their own and keep slamming the brakes because they have dementia and think it’s funny.


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    . I also think that attempting to get anything done in the house with 1,000 members may also be unproductive however

    Kind of the opposite.

    The less people, the more power each one has.

    So if you need a couple votes you add some things people personally want that are completely unrelated to get them on board.

    With twice the people, that becomes twice as hard. So the strategy would have to pivot to actual bipartisan legislation and not just cramming bribes and personal enrichments in there till it passes.

    The thing about our political system, it’s been held together with duct tape so long, there’s nothing left but duct tape. We can keep slapping more on there and hoping for the best, at some point we’re gonna have to replace it with a system that actually works.

    We might have been one of the first democracies, but lots of other countries took what we did and improved on it. It makes no logical sense to insist we stick with a bad system because we have a bad system.



  • No you don’t, because the House still favors small rural states after we froze the number.

    If the House was proportional there’d be like 150 more representatives.

    You take the population the smallest state because everyone gets at least 1, Wyoming at 580k, divide by population, 335 million.

    And you get 578 Representatives.

    Currently we have 435.

    Leading to someone in Wyoming having like 9 times the House representation compared to a person in Cali if I’m remembering that right.