That’s just a fact. The whole US political system should be scrapped and re-developed to make it a democracy.
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.
Eliminating the senate, massively increasing the size of the house, making registration automatic, executing anyone caught disenfranchising voters, etc
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.
Death penalty only for white collar crime?
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…
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.
the Senate helps keep those states in the union.
In that case California should secede; we’ll be better represented that way.
… 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…
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.
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.
Isn’t that just the house?
I thought PR just hasn’t gotten 51% in favor of statehood?
you can’t fix the foundation of blood and suffering that the house was built on top of
Show me one government not built on a pile of bodies
I can’t! :) all governments are fucking evil and must be destroyed
And thus begins the new pile of bodies
It would be so cool to be a part of a true democracy.
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.
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.
I would just like to point out that it can still get so, so much worse.
depends on perspective. if you’re a billionaire, it’s right on track.
That’s what the French and Russian aristocrat’s thought right before the French and Russian revolutions.
might be right, might be wrong, but I’ll be fucked if I take my news from a bunch of christofascist vegetables.
THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE ARMS!
They don’t have arms so they can’t self-pleasure (it is a “sin”)
Which means they can only pleasure each other.
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yeah they’re left with mouths, vaginas and anuses AS GOD INTENDED VEG TO BE lol
THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE ARMS!
Confirmed, VeggieTales is anti-2A.
Are we using christofascist as a way to call Christianity fascist now, or did I miss some fascist messaging in VeggieTales?
why not both?
Well, if you wanna call the religion evil, you do you I guess, but at least be accurate about it. The Bible doesn’t condone fascism (in fact, much of the point of the New Testament is that laws are not the way to save people,) so using christofascist as a term to refer to Christianity in general is diluting the definition of fascism. If you wanna use that term to refer to the people who use Christian branding as an excuse to push fascist laws, that’s fine, just don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
All it condones is slavery, incest, murder, the divine right to rule and a theocratic state, and the genocide of all non-Jewish people in Israel. Not fashy at all.
Slavery: Not condoned, not condemned, just regulated. See here for details. But that’s a fair argument to make.
Incest: Only condoned in the early generations of humanity when it was necessary, directly condemned afterwards. I guess I can see how you’d be confused if you heard about it secondhand, but any familiarity with the cases in question ought to show this. Incest in and of itself (discounting other problems like rape and pedophilia it tends to coincide with) is a problem primarily because it leads to a higher incidence of genetic defects, and there were no genetic defects in the first batch of humans as God created them perfectly.
Murder: Obviously against the ten commandments. I don’t know what you’re talking about. Is it the death penalty? Are you trying to gish gallop me? I don’t mind answering your points, but I’d appreciate it if you be more specific so I don’t have to guess what you’re referring to in order to address it.
Divine right: In the strictest sense, that God gives authorities their right to rule, sure, but they’re not above accountability like divine right typically says. The Bible says to follow the laws of men only where they do not conflict with the laws of God.
Genocide: That’s a tricky one, where the Israelites were to wipe out the Canaanites. I don’t have a good answer for it. What I do know is that God’s judgment is righteous, and that this one case is not justification for genocides at human convenience (though non-Christians might interpret it that way, including but not limited to a certain state. I’m not defending them.)
Also, just so we’re clear, incest is gross, but it’s not fascist.
If that helps you sleep at night.
You might want to read the actual Biblical text of the “Ten” Commandments. They aren’t what Sunday School told you they were.
you do you I guess
thank you, I will.
The United States is a cruel mockery of a developed nation especially when looking at the Mississippi
What’s up with Mississippi?
The state has the highest obesity rate, is the least developed state, the life expectancy is at age 74.4, has the lowest high school graduation rate, one of the lowest tax rates in the country, one of the lowest unionization rates, the state government has been under republican trifectas since 2012.
it’s full of shit.
Stretches of the Mississippi River within the park corridor exceed water quality standards for mercury, bacteria, sediment, PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyl), and nutrients. Unfortunately, these “impairments” can make the water unsuitable for fishing, swimming, and drinking. Mar 6, 2023
Wouldn’t it be, like, 50 failed states? 🤔
The term state at the international level usually refers to a nation-state. Nations generally have different terms like state, territory, province, etc for their internal divisions, hence state can refer to both meanings.
No, United States cannot be a state, that’s just grammatical nonsense.
For fuck sake… : https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/state
“state noun (COUNTRY) C1 [ C or U ] a country or its government: The drought is worst in the central African states. member state Britain is one of the member states of the European Union. The government was determined to reduce the number of state-owned industries. Some theatres receive a small amount of funding from the state. affairs/matters of state formal His diary included comments on affairs/matters of state (= information about government activities).”
Still no, United States are STATES (plural), not a State (singular).
Are you retarded?
No, are you? (Wtf, is this reddit or something?)
“The US is a failed state” is just grammatically incorrect sentence.
See the above comment for an example of how America became a failed a state and why it will remain as such.
To bad for you, it’s all just grammatical nonsense!
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But countries like Romania can?
Yes. Single state. Although Spain complicates things a bit. I just find saying “States is a state” extremely weird. Like saying “Ducks is a duck”.
Yes, but some of the states are more failed than others.
glares at Florida
Don’t forget Mississippi.
It was fun while it lasted, but it’s time for the crown to bring the colonies back to order.
The UK is worse.
Didn’t say better, just order
UK political system needs a complete overhaul but it is not worse.
I mean, it’s still in the top 30% of nations to live in. The US is nowhere near its potential for a great place to live but it’s still above average.
Incorrect.
The US are 50 failed states.
Nah, California could happily carry on by itself.
But every other state despises that we can. It’s a real nut punch when other states are jealous of our GDP.
Yeah right, I’ll only believe this it it comes from the Globgomgabgalab. He is the yeast of thoughts and minds.
Ok, but now who would bring back the Aztec empire?
Vegetables is murder!
These vegetables have spoiled.
You helped veggietales. You tripe rotted the brains of many young Americans.
