michaelmrose

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[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

They should have it for the same reason they should have aspirin its called for.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

What happens when 6 of 9 tell you term limits aren't real exactly?

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

No because 6 out of 9 can pretend term limits are illegal if passed by law and a constitutional amendment that harms either sides power is practically impossiblle.

If implemented prior I think they would as likely have ended in a court as bad or worse

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Attractiveness is both subjective and situational and people are often terrible at judging their subjective attractiveness to particular others.

There are also lots of reasons not to want to be persued starting with being in a relationship

Also peoples attitude towards germs and hygiene varies wildly.

The greatest sin of this comment is to suppose that because someone does something it makes sense even in their own subjective context. People are both weird and stupid.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Nobody who splits his own sides vote can win mathematically. To simplify you need side /2 - loss from infighting > opposition.

By continuing to shit on your own side you tend not only to draw votes for yourself you tend to decrease turnout, enthusiasm, and tell the other sides story for them. All with zero hope of actually winning because you will never out earn the default party vote. EG if just 10% just vote for the official party members it doesn't matter if you convince 55% of the remaining side to side with you you've already lost.

This is why this strategy hasn't worked this century.

Please pray tell when has a major election been won by a fellow running against his own side? Be specific. Remember major impact elections like Mayor of NYC +

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If he knows what he is doing cannot possibly lead to his own success, splitting the blue vote can't lead to him winning, then he is deliberately trying to put the nazis in power over his citizens knowing some of them will be harmed. He's absolutely a collaborator.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Again you confuse cause and effect term limits could have easily meant justices losing their seats during Bush and Trump bringing about the same effect or worse. If we had gotten luckier or smarter with strategic resignation we could be talking about lifetime appointments keeping the judiciary independent from the president and protecting democracy.

If the people coming in are corrupt getting new corrupt people every term limit isn't going to make them less corrupt. It is the fact that lawmakers are so beholden to money to get and stay in office that leads to corruption in the first place. In your alternative America a lawmaker would be expecting to need somewhere to land after they hit the limit and would be more beholden to industry not less.

Wherein we successfully elect people who aren't beholden to money we needn't kick them out right after they learn the ropes if the people keep showing their confidence in them by voting them in.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Term limits ensures that you always have a new incompetence congress finding their footing before being replaced by new newbies forever out of step.

Also it can simultaneously be true that term limits increase corruption and we at present are fully incapable of reigning in corruption of any kind because we are bad immoral people on average. Your position is like arguing that cigs don't kill you because your presently already dying of liver cancer right now.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Wonder why not set a maximum width and have the de respect it eg you maximize and the window grows to max height but not max width

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

People still buy Tesla's even if its not enough to justify the stock price. Basically we need Trump to deliberately destroy him instead of knuckling under and coming to an understanding OR we need both of them to crash and burn in 2028 really really hard.

Ordinary stupidity and wastage isn't going to be near enough.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Forever. The biggest thing that make's you more money is having money and whereas someone with $1,000,000 can make themselves poor in a year if they are incompetent someone with hundreds of billions with Employees actually managing the day to day can lose a billion a year to stupidity and see the appreciation of the rest more than make up for it.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This reasoning is founded on the idea that there is at any given time a reasonably just distribution of wealth and the capability of the market to fill most any niche that society needs. Neither is even close to true the best way to get more wealth isn't to do anything in particular it is to already possess it and those who hold the overwhelming majority of wealth act to continually tilt the game board to ensure more of it fills their pockets and absent laws limiting their power and redistributing their wealth inevitably until their entire society collapses.

We and others have been flogging the idea of the market as the solution to all ills for about 3 centuries and their isn't a nation on earth that is anything remotely like purely capitalistic because there is no fucking reason to believe such a thing could ever work. Every functional nation has a central government which subsists on either a massive pile of material wealth it has appropriated for itself like Saudi Arabia or taxes its citizens to perform many functions that the market is ill suited to provide. If Libertarianism worked why has nobody done it in centuries?

You point out the money spent by LA to address homelessness and treat waste as a natural law when it is a function of a defective system not a specific failing which it so obviously is. We burn a bunch of money pretending to solve homelessness because we are shits. Finland solves it by housing nearly everyone because they are not. Hell social security, medicaid, and medicare proves the government CAN if it sets it's mind to it help people successfully.

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