Just gonna skip right on past that reduced threshold to overturn the Senate veto, the having to act on everything they want to halt, and the qualified majority bits huh? Also how in the hell does more senators automatically make small states more powerful? Giving more voice to minorities within small states would technically undermine state level bigwigs trying to have a partisan lock on their senate delegations.
Hawaii is a small state, DC would be a small state, Delaware and most of New England are small states. You really want a one off Republican Majority to be able to just smash Hawaiian autonomy and indigenous rights to pieces without any checks or balances?
This model of the Senate is basically a parliamentary takeover of the role of head of state, only more powerful than the king of england in the sense that it'd be able to invoke the right of veto without instantly causing a constitutional crisis and sparking a revolution.
I think the Senate would be fine if it was in charge of a Veto instead of having to also pass the legislation, also if it had a lot more senators to some multiple of 3 at a minimum.
IE doing nothing is just letting everything pass automatically and that cooling pan shit is something senate leaders have to pursue actively with (qualified) majority support.
My ideal procedure. House passes a law, Senate vetoes it with a majority meeting or beating the passing margin of the law in the house, but also representing a majority of all americans, house can override the veto by meeting or beating the population margin the senate's Veto represented.
You may note that there is no president involved in this process. That is because I believe the independent executive is an inherent threat to democracy and that it should be subject to complete erasure and power division to save the republic.
Would be cheaper to take a visit to Astoria in NYC, comes with samples of non-palestinian Arabic culture as well, and, unless Trump Wins, it's not the site of an active bombing campaign!
It wouldn't do that though, the dems are the "not us" group so the evangelicals have already decided that everything they do is evil.
Morality by association rather than by actions is a hell of a drug.
I still think it was way too on the nose that Homelander got it on with the character that's his biological father in the comics
Quiet Part out loud, if there's one thing they hate more than the threat that women can say no to staying in abusive relationships, it's that they can run away to escape abuse if they can't take their safety at home.
I've got two.
The US has arrived at the stage where an entirely new constitution/model of government, probably down to the very borders of the states themselves in the 48, needs to be implemented, just to let off the pressure of just how large a scale the US operates on in every dimension compared to what the original 13 were looking at.
The two state solution has been rendered untenable by Israel's settler shit, the best way to protect the interests of Palestinians is to break down the border entirely and make them voting citizens with a say in the Knesset, and at this point I am convinced the only way that can be established is with an occupation force from outside both nations ready and willing to haul off anyone doing anything to threaten the coexistence and execute them. They won't coexist in peace, so let them coexist under the sword of Damocles. If I had my way honestly, Jerusalem would have a nuke installed under the temple mount, with a switch set to destroy the city entirely if they're going to insist on continuing to try and total victory wipe eachother out.
If they can't have the land together, they'll have the ashes together.
Good thing I tried pegging for the first time tonight then! Ticked that one off the bucket list just in time!
Tried a new divider Saw this broken arrow symbol on Extra History's Hiawatha episodes and apparently it's an old peace symbol for the indigenous nations in the region.
Could also do a venice and have a war variant with the opposite symbol, two arrows pointing in opposite directions
Edit: I did a Venice
Seeing Lara Logan in these sitches always kinda makes me sad, because it always comes off to me like traumatic response after what happened to her in Egypt.
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