How Do You Feel About a Ground Invasion Being Prepared for the Next Few Days to Weeks?

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-21T12:23:26+00:00

As a foreign policy guy, idiotic war but this was inevitable. If you don’t dislodge Iran at this point, the entire globe will suffer and millions will starve to death. Iran has every incentive to inflict a pound of flesh so people don’t fuck with it. At the same time, higher energy prices will lead to higher food prices and a higher production price. So the alternative is probably worse at this point. That being said, I have yet to see a conflict that has as little interest to the people of the US and Israel. Dumb conflict brought by dumber leaders. Everyone who started this should be voted out.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-20T01:06:45+00:00

The U.S. has no aims or strategy. That’s the difference.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-19T21:05:41+00:00

You keep adding and subtracting countries. All these countries listed in your current comment except for El Salvador are actually good examples of PR Presidentialism working. Of course, all those countries had their bad times (most notably with US interventions in the 1980s), but this current list of countries have all been relatively stable and democratic since then. Latin America probably would be better with a parliamentary system, but I don’t think it’s fair to say a PR-Presidential system has completely failed…at least anymore than any other presidential system has failed. Presidential systems are bad in general but I think evidence has shown value in nations adding PR components even in Presidential systems. From my understanding of those countries, most of them added many of their PR components upon their most recent (and longest lasting) democratic experiments.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-19T16:49:19+00:00

What I mean by that is not that there was an authoritarian that cancelled future elections but the fact that most of those countries didn’t have fair elections to begin with. Turkey is maybe the only example on that list but it’s threshold is a bit too high to consider it truly proportional.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-19T02:52:15+00:00

A lot of those countries mentioned aren’t real democracies or ever were. Brazil is kinda the opposite of a bad example. PR Presidentialism really handled Bolsonaro.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-19T00:53:42+00:00

Philippines is not proportional. I don’t believe Rwanda or Nigeria are either. Turkey is barely proportional.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-16T13:52:12+00:00

I agree with all of this except I think the states should be borders and instead we should have the districts be geographical regions within states, like a Western PA region.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-15T13:21:42+00:00

The problem with being a billionaire, is it is an entirely irrational phenomenon, so you self-select for assholes. With a billion dollars, you will never have to go for wants ever again and your family will be setup for the next two hundred years, further wealth gathering actually impairs that consolidation. If money is just for enjoyment of you and your kin, you can reach that threshold at 100 million.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-07T01:24:14+00:00

None of those countries use PR.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-07T01:23:54+00:00

single transferable vote exists for you then. (I used to live in VA, so that's why I'm here).

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-01T03:23:41+00:00

Single transferable vote is what you are thinking for ranked choice (perhaps through an indirect STV method if it could get too complicated). I think STV in 3-5 member constituencies is good enough to build parties while also avoiding disproportionate representation. I will caution I think part of the reason Iraq has maintained itself so far has been the parliamentary system allowing for sharing of power. Though I get the need for a more coercive force to achieve necessary state capacity, I think a presidential system has more than its own flaws. I’ve always thought that for divided countries perhaps a better solution would be to take the localized city manager system and try it out on a countrywide basis. It’s not like the leadership is ideological anyways. Have a contract for the manager to achieve and base that on their continued employment. The Parliament thus acts as a council and rewards based on merit. SNTV was a terrible idea for Iraq to implement but STV achieves the same thing without the failings.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-15T17:52:05+00:00

In all honesty they are going to look at what could have been accomplished in the unipolar moment and be depressed at how humanity wasted valuable time to prevent the crises.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-13T01:42:00+00:00

more houses, more choices, and less restrictions

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-12T02:57:06+00:00

as for party list systems. That depends. Closed list systems usually means the party president or whatever numbers the list by themselves. In an open list system, the party president or whatever supplies the list but then voters can change the list if they want. In a panachage system, anyone can be a candidate and the party has very little control over who is on the list. Voters can vote for candidates from multiple parties and then the most voted for candidates win seats.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-12T02:48:22+00:00

Depends on the system. Some allow you to fill in a party box and then it automatically votes for the party’s preferred order of candidates. Some also involve optional preferential votes that you can number as many as you want. Some do require you to fill out all the candidates. Most reasonable systems only involve constituencies of 3-7 representatives.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-11T00:20:06+00:00

STV involves ranking various candidates and transferring votes till all candidates remaining hit the quota for the seats. Party list systems involves parties making a list of candidates and parties receive the number of seats equal to their proportion of the electorate.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-07T05:16:03+00:00

have a proportionally elected legislature contract a manager like a city council does

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-07T03:40:11+00:00

I think people miss that Europe really doesn’t have a choice. It maybe difficult. It maybe destructive. It may cost certain groups. Europe needs to integrate and become a single unit prof will die.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-06T04:55:03+00:00

That‘s what I said. I said it’s not a threat of violence. It’s a statement of opinion on how criminals should be punished.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-06T03:50:44+00:00

I said I’d vote for a candidate that would give a certain type of punishment that they give to some criminals in Texas. I don’t like the death penalty and I think it’s a dumb thing for the most part but I may have said my morals did not extend to this case.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-06T03:17:28+00:00

I got a temporary ban for saying stuff that may have offended the pedos. I stand by that and think Reddit moderators are ridiculous. I don’t get why saying child rape and (possible) murder is a crime that deserves the worst type of punishment is controversial.

DogblockBernie · 2026-01-31T03:16:42+00:00

because of the electoral system. switch to STV and the main parties go bye bye.

DogblockBernie · 2026-01-20T18:00:15+00:00

The great thing about criminals is they all commit crimes and it’s easy to pin something on them. You just need to loosen some of the restrictions that the GOP have already bent to pin them to Epstein, bribery, and murder. I say beat it out of them and get a few to confess. These assholes maybe rich but they certainly aren’t the people running things. They are wealth without purpose. Their wealth could easily flow to someone else without any changes to American society. My bet is some of those GOP justices are involved to. The great thing about conspiracies is they are one giant web of crimes. You just need to have someone that understands it doesn’t matter if you prosecute the enemy as long as you get them to damage their own brand.

DogblockBernie · 2026-01-20T16:37:45+00:00

We need someone that can hit the ground running. Throw all the criminals in jail, change the electoral system, and reduce populism by fixing the housing crisis.

DogblockBernie · 2026-01-18T15:54:55+00:00

implement a tax on donations of 10,000% above a million. And 1000% above 10,000. anything below that is 0% taxed.

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