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Either way you as a country still need something better than First Past The Post voting, which absolutely centralises power in to just two parties and makes a 3rd party impossible.

Mixed Member Proportional looks pretty good, where half of all seats are tied to local electorates and won by the votes in them, while the other half are given out to parties based on what's needed to make the assembly match the overall voting of the country, e.g. if your party gets 50% of the popular vote but only wins 25% of location-based seats, you're given enough unassigned seats to make it so that you control 50% of seats in the assembly.

Too bad one party has no interest in making it the system you use, and the other would actively fight it because it would kill them as a political force forever

Look, Biden is unambiguously better than anything the Republicans are offering, and everyone should vote for him in 2024.

But he's failed us so many times now. He broke the railroad strike, he let the Republicans push him around on the budget when the Dems could have passed it back in December when they still had a majority, he let student loan forgiveness fall through, the Dems didn't codify abortion rights when they had the chance (they had a LOT of chances), and while it's good that Dems have actually been defending gay marriage on a national level, they did very little to protect trans rights on a federal level when they had the chance.

So yeah, vote for Biden because that's most likely to lead to the best outcome as far as voting goes. But don't buy into this electorialist lie that we have to back Democrats on everything they do, and that we shouldn't criticize them when they fuck up and flounder in the face of fascists in the Republican party. Don't buy in to the lie that the left is at fault for Republican wins because they critiqued the Democrats. There's more to political action than voting.

Did the general pardon for marijuana convicts happen yet? Are there plans to legalize or is it bad luck if your arrested a day after the pardon.

Democrats are superheros in comparison to the republican core but compared with about anyone else they are dumb, slow and ineffective.

i don't really understand what you're getting at

the humour isn't really a political jab, it's just supposed to be a cursed notion

I just want to see the gay anthros have sex

That’s called being a Neoliberal.

We are Neoliberals.

Not to be that guy but the insulin thing started under a Trump order and was finalized under Biden.