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Something that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cows
  • At the same time, “what the population votes for is what the population gets” ignores that we are often only presented with crappy options to start with.

    It does not ignore that, rather it explicitly takes that into account.

    The caveat to my statement would ONLY be "so long as we're using this system."

    Please focus more on accurate logic.

  • Something that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cows
  • The hard fact is that what the population votes for is what the population gets. They have completely given up their agency and just accept this impotent logic of "we'll take whatever the most obvious/most apparently easy option is, that isn't a Republican". It's a cyclical problem, the voters don't care enough to force politicians to be good, and the politicians don't care enough to court voters.

  • Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly?
  • Shoe sizes need to go too. Just measure it in centimeters. List all the measurements - length, width at forefoot, midfoot, rearfoot. Let people go online and look up a list of shoes that actually fit perfectly. Instead we have three or four different variants of shoe size numbers, gendered, that don't even work with width, and half the time are too big or too small.

  • Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly?
  • Roll the bag. Flip the box upside down. Put it in going up. Hold it in place and flip the box back over. Gravity holds the bag closed. This is a bad idea if anyone else accesses the box and isn't on the same page as you.

  • So he's calling himself a king now, eh?
  • I would edit it to say:

    The precise reason why the solution has always been total replacement of the system with direct democracy. From within or without.

    I have some faith that we'd see the economic outcomes we want with direct votes for measures vs. votes for politicians, due to the amount of involvement required.