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@whirli

I wouldnt agree with #1, the president already has very few powers. I think what little he has makes sense as a valid check and balance.

2) I agree with this point, there are better solutions here and this needs to be fixed

3) this too is a big issue but has more to do with what we accept from politicians and less to do with any rules or systems. I cant really see a good way to fix this other than getting better politicians, open to ideas though.

@Gina

@Gina

To be fair it is one of the more tolerable fallacies :)

@Matter

@Gina

That would be the ad verecundiam fallacy by the way :)

@Matter

@Gina

Not radical at all. I am a strong supporter of reducing military spending by a huge margin (I'd be happy with cutting it 90%).

After living in europe though I have already seen the failure of universal healthcare compared to pre-obama america's more free market style healthcare and would not wish that on my worst enemy.

So while I'd agree I'd change the wording and say we need to spend less taxes on military, and use that money to ensure our medicaid (free insurance given to anyone who is poor) is better funded, use the money on universal education (free education) instead, and use the rest to give everyone a tax cut.

@Matter

@Matter

Again, I find that to be more an opinion out of ignorance than out of understanding. Though its hard to say if thats the case with you as we would have to dig pretty deep into the details.

But generally, no, that isnt correct.. Our left leaning politicians tend to be pretty firmly on the left supporting virtually all the things european left tend to support. The only exception is that they tend to talk more tongue in cheek and that can often be very misleading. They wont come right out and say they want to ban all guns, for example, yet most vote in such a way to suggest they do. There is a higher ratio in taxes between highest and lowest in the USA too, making them generally fairly financially left

@Gina

@Gina Most people consider libertarian to mean or be similar to anarchist. So no, I'm not. Though I have voted for them at times when there was no better option.

@Matter

I dont know where "here" is.. but generally i find most europeaners would agree with you on the surface but more out of ignorance than actual understanding.

Most europeaners dont realize the left in america is far more radicalized than the left in europe, tot he point of violence and abuse, which is as radical as you can get. Even in terms of policy, I am in the top most tax bracket and pay more taxes in the USA than I do in europe, for example (a generally leftist principle).

@Gina

@Gina I dunno, I live in holland and the vast majority of people I met think bernie is a radical left. Never really looked at any dutch polls though to really figure out the overall sentiment.

I think bernie would think he is helping the poor, and a lot of people would think so too. But in reality he would make things far far worse than they already are sadly.

The problem is the public sentiment on what helps the poor is usually out of touch with what actually helps. So you wind up with the politicians who talk the most about helping the poor being the ones who do the most harm.

In many ways america is more radicalized to the left than europe will ever be. As someone who also has one foot in america I moved to the netherlands because they were more centrist (read: less radical left) than america.

@TonyStark I'd be curious to hear if there is any process to ensure that a volunteer puts in equal effort regardless of who the ballot is for.. What prevents people who lean democrat from doing a half-assed effort on republican ballots vs democrat ones?

@Gina I have mixed feelings about that. Dont get me wrong he is far less evil than these two, so would have been better. But holy hell bernie would be a disaster following covid, I dont think our economy, especially the poor, could survive a bernie right now.

@Gina Yea agreed. Neither of the candidates should have been able to get a single vote. Any of the others on the ballot should have won by a landslide. The fact that it is close AND two extremely evil people are tie is worrisome to say the least, no matter how it ends.

@Gina Worried about the future for america, but otherwise good. You?

@tombies@social.tchncs.de You cant be a karen if you arent at least yelling at some random dude for not wearing a mask. These ladies arent even wearing masks :)

Gertrude there is clearly mentally undressing the president as she watches on.

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@Theverytechnologypony How does that make me wrong, and what does that me wrong about?

Also source for that fact?

@Theverytechnologypony How ya figure?

@Theverytechnologypony Biden stands the best chance right now but depends entierly on nevada