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Cake day: February 23rd, 2025

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  • It’s a direct democracy, so generally Citizens decide what constitutes “service”…or at worst “representatives” (if we’d building off the framework of the idea). As far as administrative regions vs. federal…well, assuming we have a system that’s not broken and janky like this one, I think we could manage. As far as weighting things like “health risks”, yeah that’s a serious weakness here…but not an unaddressable one.

    What I see is a world where we aren’t screeching about “immigrants” because most folks are similarly just residents. And residents have every right and protection as a citizen…aside from voting or holding office. I see a world where the responsibility of such power also comes with commitment to building society…rather than simply being born, whining, and burning everything down in a tantrum…as we basically see now with bourgeoisie white folks.

    Don’t throw an idea away just because it isn’t immediately a panacea to every broken aspect of our current system.



  • Humans in 2025 are…well, mostly horrible. So if we’re working with this stock, it’s never going to work. It’s more of an idea that works really well AFTER the morons die from COVID/etc. because they refused to wear a mask unless that mask let them brutalize brown folks. Long-term, I think it’s in idea we shouldn’t bin (as a species). But it absolutely won’t work TODAY.






  • Heinlein gets shit on for this, but his “citizenship through service” idea always made sense to me. Yeah you have rights, can work a regular job, and have all the benefits we traditionally associate with “citizenship” by simply being a legal resident…but if you want to vote or hold office, you need to spend a few years contributing. Maybe that’s military service, or maybe that’s working as a teacher in a low-income area. Regardless, voting is a privilege that SHOULD be earned by contributing to the society you want to impact FIRST.







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    27 days ago

    It’s healthier for damn sure. But it only works if you can stand being around people. If you need space from people…you know, so they don’t annoy you to the point of violence…then you need to live somewhere more remote, which necessitates driving. I’d love to walk a block, catch a bus, then walk a block to my destination if I didn’t mean dealing with uncensored raw-humanity shoving its crotch into my face as I awkwardly pretend to be hyper-focused on my phone.







  • dick_finemantoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldThe future sucks...
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    4 months ago

    No, it is. Because now of the 30 people who believe Acne is the cause of the apocalypse, 10 of them have a special Discord, 5 have TikToks, 5 are “lurking”, and the remaining 10 are staring at walls in psych-wards after they tried to skin their teenaged kids to prevent…I don’t know.