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FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Beaver@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can fix the american democracy by upgrading it ranked choice voting, abolishing the electoral college, ending citizens united, giving all prisoners the right to vote, reforming the supreme court, make Washington DC and Puerto Rico states.

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  • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eliminating the senate, massively increasing the size of the house, making registration automatic, executing anyone caught disenfranchising voters, etc

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      … Introducing proportional representation and majority elected president, enfranchising all people, ending politically appointed judiciary, making intentional lies with the intention to mislead the public a criminal offence…

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      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah, don’t tie provable intent to it. Just knowingly lie should be enough. If it’s not under national secrets or some other thing, lying SHOULD be illegal out of representatives. Always.

        They can always say, “no comment” if they feel the urge to lie.

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Eliminating the Senate is not a good idea. Maybe just fix it by populating it in proportion to the states citizens?

      And do yourself a favor and finally abolish the death penalty. It does not become to a civilized country.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Isn’t that just the house?

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought PR just hasn’t gotten 51% in favor of statehood?

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  • drapeaunoir@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you can’t fix the foundation of blood and suffering that the house was built on top of

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    • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Show me one government not built on a pile of bodies

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      • drapeaunoir@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can’t! :) all governments are fucking evil and must be destroyed

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember that you enter a revolution with the culture you’ve got, not the culture you want. Think on that very carefully before you roll those dice.

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• jared@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It would be so cool to be a part of a true democracy.

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  • suction@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You guys (Americans) need to stop with the personality cults. It was cute and funny when it was sports stars and actors, but it slipped down the slope when it’s dangerous malignant narcissists like Trump and Musk. The attitude is the same, though, stop glorifying other people so much, whether it’s on the left or right. No amount of democracy will fix that loophole for populists.

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I seriously think that all constitutions should have expiry dates.

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  • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you have any idea how many rich and powerful people would dream of such power vacuums to take advantage of?

    This comment reads like it was written by the Koch foundation.

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• Fades@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And exactly how peaceful do you think the scrapping of the entire system will be? Will you sign up for the inevitable fight? Or do you just like talking big?

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