• YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
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    3 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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      3 months ago

      Eliminating the Senate might seem like a good way to reduce the outsized influence that voters in smaller states wield, but the Senate helps keep those states in the union.

      Also, the death penalty should be eliminated, not expanded.

      We obviously need to address the fact that our government doesn’t represent the country, but drastically increasing the ability of larger states to ride roughshod over the interests of smaller states is not a recipe for stability.

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          The absolutists are wild… Some people absolutely deserve to never have influence over someone else ever again. There are only so many ways to actually accomplish that…

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        3 months ago

        The death penalty thing was said tongue in cheek. And we already settled the whole can you leave the union thing a little while back.

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        3 months ago

        the Senate helps keep those states in the union.

        In that case California should secede; we’ll be better represented that way.

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      3 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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        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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      3 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.