• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    . I also think that attempting to get anything done in the house with 1,000 members may also be unproductive however

    Kind of the opposite.

    The less people, the more power each one has.

    So if you need a couple votes you add some things people personally want that are completely unrelated to get them on board.

    With twice the people, that becomes twice as hard. So the strategy would have to pivot to actual bipartisan legislation and not just cramming bribes and personal enrichments in there till it passes.

    The thing about our political system, it’s been held together with duct tape so long, there’s nothing left but duct tape. We can keep slapping more on there and hoping for the best, at some point we’re gonna have to replace it with a system that actually works.

    We might have been one of the first democracies, but lots of other countries took what we did and improved on it. It makes no logical sense to insist we stick with a bad system because we have a bad system.

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      If America gets a chance to rebuild it will probably make some changes to be more democratic.

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        Well, the good news is regardless of what you thought of accelerationists plans a couple weeks ago…

        We’re all about to find out if they were right or not.

        So we got that going for us.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          Yup. We get to be the data points in an experiment to test a hypothesis that has no historical data to support it and whose majority of subjects have not consented to participate in.