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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • really hard to say. We first need to stop breaking our government and get adults back in the room. Then we need chains of actions that rebuilds trust amongst all of us, or enough of the apathetic to rule out the inevtiable MAGA propoganda. It’s not impossible because term limits are generally a positive topic (very few people like the idea of career politicians to begin with), but still an uphill battle

    Alternatively, we could somehow garner massive support that even Trump can’t ignore. But that’s a harder order than the above.


  • ahh. I might have mixed up threads.

    Yeah, the age thing doesn’t matter as much. You can technically be 30 and still be seriously hospitalized like this. You can be 80 and genuinely have the best interst for the country. it’s just more likely at 80 that you end up this way, on tubes and bitter at the world. T

    he issues here is that represenatives have no incentive to actually do their job, or at least have minimum accountability from not doing their job as long as they are “the right people”. I beleive other countries have either recall processes for situations like this, or require X days per quarter in session before special elections can be triggered.







  • I’d personally say the problem isn’t term-limits; it’s the ignorance of the electorate

    I’d say that it’s disenfranchisement and the fact that elections arent mandatory. That makes it more advantageous for the non-working class to spend time at townhalls and at voting booths.

    A man working 2 jobs 12 hours a day to support his family simply isn’t going to have the same kind of presence as a business owner who makes his own hohrs or retirees who no longee work full time. And that applies even to voting. So guess how the voter skews?

    But mandatory voting isn’t even in the conversion right now. Term limits are and has precedent. We gotta try something.







  • Well, there are quite a few high profile strikes. The big issues are

    1. They are not coordinated, because the groups don’t really talk to each other
    2. The government as of now isn’t exact one who will give a fuck about Mos worker strikes and will probably just throw the national guard at the problem (illegally)
    3. If we’re being real, some people aren’t yurt enough and still support this clownshow. Still a lot of “I got mine” attitude out there holding everything back.

    It’ll be a few years for sure. But I can definitely see some people fighting. Even if it’s not enough.







  • as you probably know, most of Europe is turning to shit right now,

    What isn’t turning to shit? Outside of China, everyone is having a bad time. Asia is the canary in the coalmine for a population crisis (while still resisting immigration), Canada and Australia have a housing crisis, there’s a general, global economic slowdown.

    Relatively speaking, EU aint too bad. And that’s mostly because Trump was so comically bad it made most of the continent do a double take on the whole far right thing (it’s a shame some countries still chose to slip, but it slowed it down).

    I do see a light. But I also think we’re in the eye of the storm. It’ll get much much worse, then hopefully better if we make it through that.