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.
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 seriously think that all constitutions should have expiry dates.
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.
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?
Anyone with a brain understands that would only bring further pain and death.
/u/beaver gets what you don’t: https://lemmy.ca/comment/11298416
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.
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.
I don't entirely disagree but I think at this advanced stage, it's largely due to inertia.
I agree, this is just leftover momentum.
Reaganomics was a bullet to this nation's brain stem. Citizens United was just the capitalists pissing on the long dead corpse for fun.
This place is just the command center for multinational oligarchs to wage war on the rest of humanity to increase short term profit expectations.
Wouldn't it be, like, 50 failed states? 🤔
Yes, but some of the states are more failed than others.
Come check out Oklahoma! Where you can be both the Secretary of Transportation and head the Turnpike authority (at least for a year, until the attorney general gets off his ass)! You can opt out of complying with state law (the Open Meetings Act) if you really really want to bulldoze thousands of family homes to build a toll road and don’t like that people have opinions on it.
There’s no guarantee that your kids teacher is even background checked, much less that they are qualified to teach the subject they are teaching! Thousands of dollars in COVID funds earmarked for education went to buying Christmas trees and TVs. (State superintendent and Secretary of Education also got to be positions held by the same person - with two paychecks!) We also are trying to be national leaders in ignoring the first amendment and establishing a religious online charter school!
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
Mississippi has been known for poverty and a lack of education and safety standards for quite some time now, not to mention the rampant sexism and racism that goes hand in hand with said lack of education
It was fun while it lasted, but it's time for the crown to bring the colonies back to order.
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.
These vegetables have spoiled.
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 are the children of Israel!" "Hello, children! It was nice to meet you, now go away!" https://youtu.be/WtoozRVFfgw
You helped veggietales. You tripe rotted the brains of many young Americans.
