Yes, and you abolish FPTP and now you elect a president how? I’m interested in your proposal, because it’s incomplete to say get rid of FPTP… Otherwise top vote getter, who gets maybe 30% of the vote leads the country which is also an abomination as 70% didn’t vote for that person.

Abolishing FPTP requires doing something else on top of it, ranked choice or run off would be better than the highest count.

Okay so you go with what system?

Let’s say the breakdown of votes looks the same as the Swedish breakdown. There will be more people that voted for a different candidate than the red one (Social Democrat).

This then requires a run off system like france, or a ranked choice, which is also fine to propose, but you can’t hold up a visual of a parliament and say the system is so much better, when we talk about one singular office.

The post compared two things that have different end goals

This fixes congress. How does this fix the presidency, which is one single office?

All they need is 5 SCOTUS justices to agree the text means whatever.

Then you need a different SCOTUS session to disagree or all of that to fix the text

That’s some Sov Cit level legal gymnastics.

“This undocumented immigrant is just travelling, we have no jurisdiction over them”

Blue states and red states split as per last election map with exceptions that:

Virgina, Illinois, Minnesota can go red… Arizona will go blue.

We take most of the burden for the Mexican border, they should be happy about that, right?

They can paint on the old mink farms

Unless of course the VP dies and the President nominated the speaker as the VP and was confirmed

I don’t think infrastructure would be the limiting factor. Looks like Germany is 20k short of their target.

Denmark, for instance, still has compulsory service. However, it is only enacted if they have fewer volunteers than their target, and will only compel participation up to the limit. Denmark has not needed to compel anyone to join in quite a long time, fortunately.

That said, under a similar model, Germany would only need to add 20,000. Likely less per year depending on the commitment term. Eg 10k/year if they are conscripted for 2 years. Also assuming that volunteer attrition and signups offset each other.

the bigger issue is about the moral justification of forcing someone into military service in the 21st century.

Yvan eht nioj.

Eminent domain is subjected to legal challenges. Both to the authority (there must be a purpose) and also to the FMV assessment. Which costs money. And time.

If it was as easy as snapping their fingers, it would’ve happened.

Username doesn’t check out?

… That’s the joke

OPs reading comprehension is suspect

This does not preclude congress from taking action, either. There are options.

This is true but do you remember the liter price you paid for laundry detergent or do you remember that you bought it for $14?

I’d wager that most people are in the latter, even if they are completely informed of shrinkflation.

For me the liter price I use when trying to figure out if a sale of the 1 gallon is actually cheaper than the 2 gallon normal price (or whichever units of measure for an item).

This is not impossible, but I believe gorsuch will be an odd one out siding with the sane half. The “plain text” doesn’t give him a free pass. Roberts I think will also fall on the sane side.

The rest, who fuckin knows.

In danish this is basically how it’s done on increments of a half.

One and one half is said as half (til) two

But it’s only on small numbers. It goes Half, one, half til two, two, half til three (or optionally two and a half!), three, three and a half…

Dont even get me started on the rest of the numbers

Problem is when you get outside of the Boston through DC corridor, population drops off a cliff. It starts to get too spread out.

But I’d settle for spreading two forks out toward Pittsburg and Richmond. Then keep getting the forks out further toward Chicago and Atlanta, with the big/growing cities along the way.

You would make a great bot parent one day.