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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The Kentucky fried chicken chef guy is absolutely SLAYING those short shorts and boots 🔥🤩

Edit: apparently I already made this joke and forgot about it lmao

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Blame Connecticut. It’s their fault. It would up benefiting the South, but it was Delaware and CT mad about larger states having more a say.

The South actually wanted proportional representation. They were growing faster and had more land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

It would be somewhat OK if the House was much more powerful relative to the Senate, similar to how the (unelected) Canadian Senate rarely if ever opposes the will of the House.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

And none of you poors can do anything about it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

yeah...

It's the senate.

You forgot to look at the house lmao.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't even care so much about the Bicameral Compromise; but I do care that the electoral votes apply toward electing the President.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

The reapportionment act of 1929 is screwing us over in the electoral college. The House should have a LOT more representatives, which would make the it more fair.

But more representatives would make it more difficult for big businesses to bribe them, and nobody is going to vote to dilute their personal power, so changing that is a nonstarter.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 day 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 20 hours ago (2 children)

Secede. That'll teach 'em.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

Dare I say... defederate? *smugface*

[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

A quick Google search says you are correct

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Should have stuck with the monarchy they had.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Brave of the Bri'ish to remind America they exist as we're on the cusp of our own outright Empire phase.

It's not poor countries that speak a different language that empires like to annex first.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But look at the US popular vote. Even with different representation of the populace, this election would still have been fucked. We do need massive reform of the US voting structure, but this is not the biggest thing. Getting rid of first past the post in favor of at least ranked choice would make a much bigger difference.

That would open the door for a true left wing party to actually have a voice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Ranked voting is a very good thing all countries should implement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

But then the poor would run the country instead of a handful of unimaginably rich individuals! What kind of democracy would THAT be?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

We don't know but it was guaranteed to be different.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (4 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 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 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.).

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[–] [email protected] 227 points 1 day ago (24 children)

Don't worry the House balances it*

*Until they froze the House because they couldn't fit anymore chairs...

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