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  • I feel like none of this should need to be said, but I’ll humour you. Memes are rarely sarcastic. They are almost always quite shallow, though. Which is why political memes always create a rough outline for a much deeper system of beliefs that is our job as the audience to infer before sharing it.

    As an example: just look at the right sharing memes about trans people, which empowers their legislators to actually harm trans people.



  • This is the same stupid argument anarchists use to dismiss having politicians or regulations.

    The Geneva Convention did not eliminate war crimes, chemical weapons, etc. But it has vastly reduced them, and it has also prevented (to my knowledge) all attempts to launch nuclear weapons into orbit. Without the Geneva Convention, things would be so unfathomably worse than they are now.
















  • I like that and it would probably work better than suing over a gerrymandered map only for the courts to uphold the crazy district, exactly what happened with the Texas 2nd Congressional District map.

    Honestly with our current level of technology, a more direct democracy approach like a popular vote representation based on stance alignment would probably work better. For example, Average Joe would optionally select a party and then vote on policies, and the representatives would have selected their policies to align with constituents. Policies and candidates on ballot would be chosen through a regular primary, so each party might have separate policies on the ballot. Independents could select a mix of each and get automatically assigned a politician.

    I bet the GOP wouldn’t even oppose it because they love forcing people to commit to a party.


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    I feel like Cities Skylines wasted potential with their Sims-like sales model of a poorly cooked base game and tens of DLC. Plus, the game is tutorial railroaded so bad like omg just let me try.

    I did see a youtuber build a biking and walkable community connected by Subway, though, which was cool.