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For profit corporations should not be trusted to preserve out culture. They would happily delete everything it if made then 1 dollar
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•32 percent of Americans believe a military regime or authoritarian leader would be a good way of governing the country.English1·1 year agoThey are a part of our DNA. Perhaps the tribe in the jungle needed bootlickers to survive and we inherited that DNA.
We never were civilized. We added extra steps to the (concrete) jungle and pretended we were.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•32 percent of Americans believe a military regime or authoritarian leader would be a good way of governing the country.English1·1 year agoA nuclear civil war… can’t say I’m surprised.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•32 percent of Americans believe a military regime or authoritarian leader would be a good way of governing the country.English1·1 year agoThe ballot box still works AFAIK (as shit as First Past The Post voting is)
Are you an accelerationist?
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Biden says it’s ‘time to outlaw’ AR-15 after Trump assassination attemptEnglish0·1 year agoUnarmed protest will not stop putin
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Ocasio-Cortez Loses the Democratic Socialists’ Endorsement Over IsraelEnglish0·1 year agoFuck that, AOC voted to protect the rail corporations from the unions striking.
I’m just surprised that wasn’t the reason she has lost the support of the DSA.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Fumbles Repeatedly in Terrifying Speech at Florida RallyEnglish0·1 year agoIt’s almost like it’s impossible to represent everyone with only two political parties.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Fumbles Repeatedly in Terrifying Speech at Florida RallyEnglish0·1 year agoTrump should also stop running for president.
I think I saw in another comment here on lemm.ee that biden should make it illegal for felons to be president (dont worry, its an official act!) and then biden resigns. I hope it happens. We need turn the country off and turn it back on again.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eetoPolitics@lemmy.ml•GOP party convention says quiet part out loud: "We do not want to be a democracy.”English3·1 year agoSwitzerland has a direct democracy component to their government.
The pure form of direct democracy exists only in the Swiss cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden and Glarus.[27] The Swiss Confederation is a semi-direct democracy (representative democracy with strong instruments of direct democracy).[27] The nature of direct democracy in Switzerland is fundamentally complemented by its federal governmental structures (in German also called the Subsidiaritätsprinzip).[5][6][7][8]
Most western countries have representative systems.[27] Switzerland is a rare example of a country with instruments of direct democracy (at the levels of the municipalities, cantons, and federal state). Citizens have more power than in a representative democracy. On any political level citizens can propose changes to the constitution (popular initiative) or ask for an optional referendum to be held on any law voted by the federal, cantonal parliament and/or municipal legislative body.[28]
The list for mandatory or optional referendums on each political level are generally much longer in Switzerland than in any other country; for example, any amendment to the constitution must automatically be voted on by the Swiss electorate and cantons, on cantonal/communal levels often any financial decision of a certain substantial amount decreed by legislative and/or executive bodies as well.[28]
Swiss citizens vote regularly on any kind of issue on every political level, such as financial approvals of a schoolhouse or the building of a new street, or the change of the policy regarding sexual work, or on constitutional changes, or on the foreign policy of Switzerland, four times a year.[29] Between January 1995 and June 2005, Swiss citizens voted 31 times, on 103 federal questions besides many more cantonal and municipal questions.[30] During the same period, French citizens participated in only two referendums.[27]
In Switzerland, simple majorities are sufficient at the municipal and cantonal level, at the federal level double majorities are required on constitutional issues.[20]
A double majority requires approval by a majority of individuals voting, and also by a majority of cantons. Thus, in Switzerland, a citizen-proposed amendment to the federal constitution (i.e. popular initiative) cannot be passed at the federal level if a majority of the people approve but a majority of the cantons disapprove.[20] For referendums or propositions in general terms (like the principle of a general revision of the Constitution), a majority of those voting is sufficient (Swiss Constitution, 2005).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy#Switzerland
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eetoPolitics@lemmy.ml•GOP party convention says quiet part out loud: "We do not want to be a democracy.”English4·1 year agowhen power isn’t shared equally, those with power tend to remove rights from those without or fail to enforce them.
Capitalism’s natural proression towards end stage.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eetoPolitics@lemmy.ml•GOP party convention says quiet part out loud: "We do not want to be a democracy.”English12·1 year agoWork towards peace, prepare for the inevitable.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eetoPolitics@lemmy.ml•GOP party convention says quiet part out loud: "We do not want to be a democracy.”English5·1 year agoWoah, the country founded so 1%ers didn’t have to pay taxes, built on slavery and Indian burial grounds isn’t good?
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eetoPolitics@lemmy.ml•GOP party convention says quiet part out loud: "We do not want to be a democracy.”English9·1 year agoSo why isn’t the DNC forming a national push for Ranked Choice voting? Stopping the Republicans is bigger then preserving the democratic party.
Joe biden needs backup on the debate stage. We need more chances to defeat the republicans. We need more then two viable political parties.
All that is possible with electoral reform. We don’t actually need to wait for federal reform. How we vote is controlled at the state level. This means all those blue states can push through this much needed reform with little Republican resistance.
We deserve the *freedom * to vote for someone who best represents us, secure in the knowledge that our vote will still be counted even if our preference didn’t won. We deserve to be free of the spoiler effect.
The only thing standing in our way in blue states is the democratic party. Don’t they care about beating the Republicans more then being in power?
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•How does my local Sonic run out of just the small box of chicken?English3·1 year agoLike $4 for a huge bag. What can $4 buy at fast food places? I’m legitimately asking because I just stopped going to these places years ago.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•How does my local Sonic run out of just the small box of chicken?English4·1 year agoOops didn’t mean to! Now spend more money!
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeto Memes@lemmy.ml•Biden admits to taking drugs before the debate.English1·1 year agodeleted by creator
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eeto Memes@lemmy.ml•Biden admits to taking drugs before the debate.English19·1 year agoI see your post is missing the required 20,000 word essay in how the Republicans are worse then democrats… thus you are a secret Russian Republican antisemite!
I remember my first up vote