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Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. Not just Biden.

There are NATO members who mostly joined so that the US wouldn't attack them.

Even if the monitor doesn't use more electricity, they still take up some memory and cpu/gpu resources. Especially if the game has good shadows or reflections.

I am uncertain what I want. I kinda like what lemmy is now. I don't really want it to become mainstream. On the other hand I want the corporations to fail and lemmy is the best chance we have.

The thing is, this is imo the most problematic problem of democracy. It is also not an age thing.

Political leaders normally don't stay long in any specific office. E.g. most finance ministers are just finance ministers for a few years. If they survive one term that is long. During the term they are oftentimes planning their follow up career in the private sector. This can takes up more of their efforts than national politics.

It is even worse in local politics. Many mayors of large cities are already planning their career in national politics. They don't care about what happens to the city once they switched over.

So, I wouldn't limit myself to "old politicians", because they might die before seeing the consequences of their fuck ups. Young politicians also almost never see consequences for their fuck ups, because they will have moved on before it gets problematic. The politicians know that!

This is a much larger problem than your question let it seem to be, it is imo the biggest problem democracy in itself inherently has.

Rule limits actually make this worse, because it leads to short term thinking. But not having a rule limit is also not an option as it opens up roads to autocratic behaviour.

I work in local infrasrtructure management now and worked in science before. I despice politicians, be they young or old. We administrators are constantly fighting them to keep our city/country livable (and we lose more than we win).

Ah okay, I thought this Caretaker government turned into a somehat working stopgap. Okay, so, everyone, ignore my comment on Belgium. :)

I would mostly be worried how he ignores processes. There is a U.S. Board on Geographic Names for these things. A president shouldn't ignore these structures.

I also hate bureaucracy and it has to be limited as much as possible, but there are reasons why governing by decree is not a good way to govern a country. It leads to chaos.

As someone from "outside the US": It isn't much better elsewhere. Italy has a fascist government, France is fucking up everything, Sweden has a governemnt depending on a borderline fascist party, the Netherlands has borderline fascists as part of the government, in Germany open fascists poll at 20% as the 2nd most popular party (elections are next month), Georgia is on the brink of civil war, Korea is in a utterly weird crisis/coup mode, in the middle east we are having a genocide happening, Sudan is in chaos, and so on and on.

On the bright side: Things appear to be somewhat okay in Spain and Belgium seems to have a somewhat half-working government.

How would that even fit here? If the US changes the name there would be two names that fit that description (which isn't uncommon at all tbh).

Do you mean that Iran (translates to the land of the Aryans) should govern the USA? Or do you hint towards the Nazi race theories? But I thinkt the only Trump child that could be considered "Nazi approved Aryan" is Tiffany Trump, the others are all half slavic and thus considered sub-humans.

Tbf, Adolf Hitlers salutes were really sloppy.