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All the extra $$$ you will pay for groceries and goods due to this war will be sent overseas.

Bored of Peace

Minnesotans are heros!

We've been observing Earth for several solar orbital periods now.

We believe it would be best for the Federation if Earth is destroyed next Tuesday.

Please make a note of it.

To all current elected officials:

Just so you know, I won't be satisfied until every one of you who enabled all this blatent corruption and the destruction of American institutions and its good name is behind bars.

You are vile, and you will pay for this.

It would be astonishing if anyone were surprised about his response.

Anyone in any position in society and of any age who acted as he has for > a decade would be shunned scorned by all decent humans.

It has been so obvious.

I would think after all we've been though, people are going to want a voting system that supports democracy.

We're all to familiar with how bad things get when your voting system can't support democracy.

Let's get STAR voting.

My take on Claude:

One and a half heads are better than one.

Biggest redistribution of wealth from *poor to rich* in American history.

Yes!

Right now, the two parties are racing to the bottom because FPTP guarantees they will still get elected anyway.

But with STAR, it's not a guaranteed win. Then, there will be actual competition with new candidates outside of the parties. This would force the parties to get better or get lost.

P.S. All it would take is if Obama would tell everyone that FPTP isn't democratic. He could say it was the same system that elected Hitler, but after WWII, we made Germany change to a new system - but we kept it and elected a new Hitler.
JFC

That's the truth.
I'm sure the founders never anticipated that Congress would allow the president complete unavcountability.

Yes, Trump is bad, but why isn't Congress stopping him. It would be so easy if they did their job.

Again, all goes back to FPTP that creates two unaccountable parties.

Do you think you have the same political power as Elon Musk?

No, he has millions of times more political power than you.

Why are we okay with that?

We are enabling oligarchs to control us.

US oligarchs run America.

US oligarchs destroyed America.

US oligarchs should be taxed out of existence.

The whole world is watching the US Constitution fail spectacularly and the breathtaking power of US oligarchs to brainwash half of the US population to cheer it on.

Thanks for inquiring. The devastating problems with FPTP are the best kept secret in politics, because it ensures an unaccountable duopoly. You can't ever get anything you want, because neither party will ever follow through and there's not a dawn thing you can do about it.

This extreme polarization is a direct result of FPTP. It doesn't work, nor does negative campaigning nor gerrymandering with STAR voting.

Getting democracy is the single most transformative change there could be. And from there, you actually COULD get $$$ out of politics and a dozen other things.

It can be done by referendum in 24 states.
Alaska and Maine already switched to Ranked Choice Voting - not ideal, but superior to FPTP.

It would be nice if voters understood that they don't have democracy and brought this issue to the forefront.

It's not obvious that choose-1 voting prevents democracy, but it does.

Given this, with STAR, considered the best voting system, the differences in behavior and results would be dramatic.

There is no prisoner's dilemma in STAR voting. So, any candidate outside the two parties can easily win with a populist platform that neither of the R or D parties would ever run. That would force the R and D parties to change up their platforms in order to compete.
democracy > no democracy.

To add to Walz's statement, there is no one in the entire world that could get an MRI and not know what body part was being scanned...

...UNLESS it was the brain.

Voters using FPTP always vote along party lines at a rate of >95% because that is the flaw of FPTP.

FPTP (choose-1) voting is why Rs and Ds won virtually every election for 165 years.

FPTP is the greatest threat to freedom and democracy ever perpetrated on a modern society.

When was it time for Congress to rein in the president?

I argue this should have begun on Jan 20th when he signed several executive orders that overreached his Constitutional power.

Correct. First Past The Post voting is not democratic and cannot be expected to support a healthy democracy.

It creates 2 corrupt, unaccountable parties (Duverger's law).

STAR voting is needed in order to have democracy - before anything good can be expected to happen.

Get it by referrendum.

I believe this is an AI Anderson Cooper.

Regardless of the message, I believe it is wrong to use AI to mimick a public figure to exploit their credibility.

I can't prove it's not real, but if anyone can prove this is real, I'd love to see.

Melania Knavs didn't qualify for an EB 1 visa and was paid for modelling in the US in 1996 while on a tourist visa, which doesn't allow employment
Working on this visa is fraud and also disqualifies her. She also lied about work history on her immigration application, which is NATURALIZATION FRAUD

He set the top marginal tax rate to 94%.

As it should be.

It remained above 90% for 20 years. Those were the most prosperous years in history and built the middle class.

Congress has cheapened and disgraced America by allowing the president to perpetrate blatant corruption and grift with impunity for all the world to see.

Shame on you, Congress. You have sullied this great nation. What you are doing is a crime, and you will pay for this.

Do you realize how illegal it is for Congress to allow POTUS to perpetrate all his unconstitutional, illegal, destruction, bribery, and corruption?