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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's a government by rich owners for rich owners and it's working as designed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

And none of you poors can do anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I mean, that's most governments

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We pay more in taxes than the welfare states, have less representation... Seems like there was something in US History about taxation without representation.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Secede. That'll teach 'em.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Honestly of all the states, California probably has the best chance at seceding successfully.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if California's GDP has surpassed that of the UK, which would make it the fifth largest economy in the world if it were to secede.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In Germany we have two votes, one for a local representative and one for a party. In itself it's a pretty decent system

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yet, the local representatives in the pairlaments (Bundestag, Landtag) represent districts of approximately the same population number. Thus, in our first chamber, no vote has more value than another.

But in the Bundesrat, which comes closest to the US senate, states with higher population number do have more representatives than small states, which weakens the inequality of votes, yet still one vote from Bremen (population 700k, 3 representatives) has 13 times as much value as one from NRW (p. 18 mio, 6 rep.).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not really happy with our democracy. It always feels like our say stops at the ballot box, we need more direct democracy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Eight years ago I would have agreed. But, I think we've demonstrated the short comings of putting authority for our most important policies in the hands of your average citizen.

I don't have a better answer, mind you. Hopefully someone way further right on the "average citizen" bell curve has better ideas.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The German system is what the US would have been if they would have regularly updated their constitution.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It was largely modelled after the US, with bugfixes applied. It definitely has issues but isn't remotely as fucked as a partisan 2-party system.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always thought it'd be interesting if one senator were elected only by the most populous municipality in each state.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Republicans would just create a mega-municipality of all the rural voters.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

It is as it needed to be to get the states to sign on. But times have changed, and it needs to as well

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