While Eva Burch spoke on the Senate floor about her planned abortion, almost all of her GOP colleagues found something else to do

  • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It’s like when the government refuses to comment on something. Motherfucker you are a servant of the state, you are under our mandate. We tell you to speak, you fucking speak you dancing fucking monkey.

    We need a new system. We can’t be running shit the same way in the AI age and a global population of, what, 9 billion?

    Our old systems of governance did NOT scale.

    Consider the population of the US in the 1700’s. We have about a hundred times that now, but the same amount of representatives.

    That means that every representative today has power over a hundred times more people than originally when the constitution was written.

    That changes everything.

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      9 months ago

      No… The house of representatives has grown multiple times with the last permanent growth in 1913. It did temporarily grow by 2 when Alaska and Hawaii were made states, but went back to 435 after those states got their appropriations of representatives.

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      9 months ago

      A lot of time the government refuses to comment on something because doing so would conflict with law, undermine an active criminal or civil case, or they are still working on it.

      Saying “the government” in one broad general statement shows some degree of ignorance as to how the very systems you say “do not scale” work.

      Yeah big parts of it are fucked up. A lot of politicians are power hungry sociopaths. But there are a whole lot of civil servants that work their asses off every day for below market rate pay in spite of how fucked up it is trying to make it better in a tangible way.

      Maybe saying “the political system” might be more accurate than “the government” because a lot of the government is working pretty well despite the political system being so fucked up.