You gotta stop that. I’ve started microplastic maxing and it’s been great. I feel like I just think about stuff less.

I’m thinking about adding in some macro plastics

Oh boy do I have bad news for you.

Basically everything in your environment is covered in human poop.

If you bring a carrot into your home it has way less poop on it than your toothbrush.

This is my favorite critique.

You get online to complain that people are taking time to protest, but offer no solutions or alternatives.

Then it usually devolves into either you having no answer, you want someone else to start a revolution while you sit online, or you make a vague statement about 3rd parties (not helpful considering there is no election until late 2026).

You are right and I’m sure I can find more common ground with the guy that owns the local pizza shop.

But remember all buisness need to pay employees less than the value of what they produce. That is inherently exploitation

while the Grand Council served an important ceremonial role, it was not a government in the sense that Morgan thought.[40][41][42] According to this view, Iroquois political and diplomatic decisions are made on the local level and are based on assessments of community consensus. A central government that develops policy and implements it for the people at large is not the Iroquois model of government.

Per your source. Also important to note that those that were allowed to sit on the “grand council” were determined through hereditary succession. So if this government had power it would be essentially a confederacy ruled by nobles.

I won’t disagree that a nice decentralized democratic society would be pretty awesome, but it’s also a lot harder to do with 7 billion people.

In your example each clan would have been no larger than a small town. Less than 1,000 people. Of course, there were towns that used to exist in the Americas that were much larger, but for many we don’t know how those were governed. Particularly those in North America. By thr time Europeans began asking the large cities had collapsed due to disease

If only it were that simple. The US still has an insanely powerful military. Historically a nation in decline, with an unpredictable leader, and a strong military is not very good for the world

It’s only natural, look it’s what our closest living relatives do. It’s in our dna

He’s shown the opposite. He can do what he wants because his party controls both Congress and the Supreme Court. You’d have to reverse that entirely. Basically if you control all three branches of government you can do what you want, but you also need all 3 to make reforms too.

Flipping the Supreme Court alone could take decades

Right that’s the issue. Only 56% support stricter gun laws, but that could mean anything from background checks to semiautomatic weapons bans. However that 56% is not evenly spread. “Blue” states will have higher support and “Red” states typically have lower support. The issue is a state like California that has the highest population gets the same representation in the Senate as the smallest state Wyoming. Both California Senators can support a ban and both Wyoming senators can not support a ban. So just like that a state of 300,000 people negates a state with 40 million people. That’s a big flaw in the Senate.

But even with 80% support the Supreme Court could strike it down. Meaning either 2/3rds of congress or 2/3rds of states have to support changing the constitution. But if that 80% isn’t evenly distributed then senators from smaller states could block the whole thing.

It’s a terrible system that fights progress

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the American system of government. Unfortunately due to the flaws in our constitution it’s functionally impossible.

You’d have to get the majority of Americans to support reform. Which will be hard, but not impossible. Now you can try to make it a law. If the Supreme Court rejects that law based on the constitution then you have to wait. The movement would have to continue for decades waiting for Supreme Court justices to die or retire until newly appointed judges that support the law are appointed. This is a long time for a movement to sustain power. Alternatively you can have 2/3rds of congress or 2/3rds of states make an amendment to the constitution. That would be nearly impossible.

This system is actually what makes Trump so dangerous right now. He basically controls Congress and the Supreme Court giving him a blank check to violate the law.

Talk about a flawed system

Unfortunately that could only happen by a full dissolution of the government by force or 2/3rds of states agreeing to a constitutional convention followed by the ratification proccess.

Option 1 is likely a brutal, bloody, and global war. Option two probably will never happen. It’s a pretty broken system

That’s because Republicans have stacked the Supreme Court in their favor. They also control the means to remove the president.

Basically everything that has empowered Trump also works to empower true gun reform from ever occurring.

Any president that tried would not get it through congress. If they tried illegally they would be removed. You might wonder why, and the simple answer is congress. Republicans will not vote for total gun restrictions, that’s part of their brand. Many democrats also can’t vote for it if they want to retain their seats. A good example is the state of Georgia, it’s 2 senators are currently democrats, but the state had leaned heavily republican form years. They barely held their seats. Georgia is also extremely pro-gun and has more relaxed laws than even Florida. If these senators voted for sweeping bans they will lose their seats next cycle. That’s not a question but a garuntee. They would likely be promptly replaced.

This current political situation would take decades to change.

Unfortunately that’s not going to be easy. It’s basically political suicide for any party that tries, but additionally would require reworking the constitution. Due to the document’s flaws you would need 2/3rds of states or 2/3rds of Congress.

Functionally it’s impossible due both to the average American voter and the constitution.

Only true if America begins performing military raids on Canada and eating their babies.

Chimpanzees are brutal

American unions are also paid through wages. Maybe a bit less than a full 1% though.

Unfortunately if you are a non-union worker and you strike you can and will be fired

So main issue with this comment is the UK system allows for more than 2 choices.