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We might be living the final moments of not being terrified what the US President is going to do (lemmy.autism.place)

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These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,... whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

If Trump loses there are the next two months of wondering how many people will die around the inauguration, then the next two years of wondering what the project 2027 people are going to do, then...

The only way to stop this is to fix the US system. Fix the courts. Fix the elections. Fix gerrymandering. Fix the right wing control of the media. Fix the lies from the "news".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

A law that said the press can not be for-profit, would never happen, but would probably help

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago

Thank Reagan. He ended the Fairness Doctrine. Which is the only reason Trumpism ever happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Gerrymandering is a complicated one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwBslntC3xg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Only in the United States. Canada solved the problem years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure there is a perfectly solution. Mapmen cover it very well (and it's funny as always).

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

Canada has an independent electoral commision that sets electoral boundaries, mostly on geographic borders, like county lines. My electoral district, for example, is Leed, the Grenville, the Thousand Islands, and Rideau Lakes and encompases those four geographic districts. It can also be done by a computer using maximum n-sided polygons with equal populations.

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

You didn't MapMen. 😃 You can't just do it on population numbers because minorities can end up completely unrepresented. You have to include more factors than just population numbers. But it certainty should be kept apart from politicians, and it be criminal for them to rig it....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

As a Canadian I always forget to take the racist factor into account.