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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If the old government is gone why would i want to replace it with another one?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd put 1 and 2 right back in. It ain't broke

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Blackjack and hookers for all

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

How to do voting even is a big question. The really representative systems tend to end up with razor thin coalitions full of smallish parties that play brinkmanship. There's got to be a way to discourage that, but I don't know what it is yet.

More controversially, it should probably address economic inequality in some way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Our Constitution as it is is pretty good, so wisdom would be to tread lightly. I think the only change I would make is to prohibit primary elections. That would be considered a right, as in, no person or group may deny a candidate with sufficient signatures the right to appear on the ballot. I would also mandate some sort of ranked choice voting or instant runoff election. These two changes would be to fix the problem of having to vote against a bad guy rather than voting for a good guy. It far too often ends with the second worst candidate who goes into the primary, coming out victorious. We should be electing the best, not the second worst.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Let the robots be in charge. They can't do any worse.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does everyone have to like it or do I just get to pick one and everyone has to live with it? If the latter, I might give technocracy a tryโ€ฆ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
  • sovereignty, and the necessary respect for mutual sovereignty, are the cornerstone of law
  • government may have absolute authority over is own services, but may not determine what services a citizen subscribes to
  • a decent portion of taxes must be self-directed
  • taxes apply equally to all valid legal entities
  • all legal entities receive UBI from those taxes
  • the only act of compulsion permissible by the government is to reduce compulsion, and may only be applied to the compelling party.
  • contribution of time, energy, effort, and attention may not be compelled
  • isolation may not be denied
  • strict separation of church and state
  • strict separation of government and bon-government financial interests
  • government pay is proportional to average income
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Land value tax, election by sortition for the legislative branch, bodily autonomy

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Any form of political corruption should be severly punished.

Any political office should have a limit of two terms.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Didn't Iceland do this a few years ago, after their economy crashed?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Remember, no English downloadfile

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

copy the old one verbatim (it is flawless)

/s โ†โ†

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