Tenderizer

I'd say, rather than conscription, have mandatory military training. It would convince more people to consider a career in defense and expand our ability to rapidly increase our standing army in a real war scenario. Assuming the volunteer army model is indeed untenable.

We collectively need far fewer people to have driver's licenses in this country. Being part of the minority that can't drive is harder when that minority is smaller and so less resourced. Although in some ways, with fewer people who can't drive competition for jobs (especially entry-level) that don't need a driver's license may be lighter.

When we publicly criticize China for their human rights record, their tendency is to double-down. They consider it "domestic interference" and so will break further human rights laws just to prove they take orders from nobody.

Even Trump's allies don't know what's going on ... does he even have allies? I think it's just El Salvador, Israel, Hungary, and Vietnam. Israel is the only one who they seem to tell anything.

Just take the Japanese approach, require proof that your garage is big enough before selling you the car.

Land

Last I checked they were ghoulishly waiting at the prison in the hopes of watching her be sent in.

The media is garbage. We did not need this many updates on the case, and they did not need to rub it in so much (I think she obviously did it, but on the off chance she didn't they're basically bullying her at this point).

You need to win election to fight capitalism. Could you even imagine Australia voting for Adam Bandt to be PM? Incrementalism is not evil, and sure beats the alternative of going scorched earth and handing us another decade of the LNP. This isn't America, we can't beat the LNP on turnout.

You want Albanese to single-handedly abolish global capitalism, against the will of the Australian electorate? I think, as far as capitalism goes, small business is on the less unethical side.

Albanese is an adult, he needs to deliver the best outcomes he can from within the system we're given, not refuse to engage in the hopes that it would somehow fix things.

Education is one factor. A diversity of power structures is another. America wouldn't be in the state it was if the monarchy needed to approve supreme court appointments.

The monarchy didn't stop the UK from being taken out of the EU, that was a referendum and they'd bring out the guillotines of the monarchs tried to override that. The monarchy doesn't need to actually intervene to be effective at maintaining stability, the threat of intervention is enough to keep the far-right from trying to overthrow or corrupt elections.

I think the UK system of the hereditary lords in the house of lords is better than the monarchy. A inherited position sitting at the back of democracy that can delay legislation should it be the result of blatant self-interest or populism. The house of lords is closer to a group of average upper class people with clear limits on their role.

I'll take every opportunity I can to say this, but we all need to take note of what happened when America overthrew the monarchy. A single system of power leaves us vulnerable to populism, and enables the politicization of the courts.

Do you, perhaps, have a pro-speed bias?