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medros
· 3 years ago
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yeah the difference is that the pipeline workers will find other work (petroleum is STILL very high growth industry) but the animals that the pipeline would have affected don't have that choice. All pipelines leak, often. Google is free.
tarotnathers13th
· 3 years ago
It's almost like your vote doesn't matter once they're elected.
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tarotnathers13th
· 3 years ago
Now, hear me out, but what if we could take back our vote and unelect our representatives? Now, yeah, it's probably a bad idea in practice, but when has that ever stopped anyone who wanted to feel good about the decisions they make? President does something you don't like? Retract your vote with other like minded community members and put it towards someone who will learn from watching their peer being pulled down from his position. This of course would affect all elected officials, representatives, senators, and presidents. Once unelected, such officials would be barred from holding any position, associating, or speaking with any of federal, state, local, and municipal governments in any official capacity until four years time has passed. This policy would also place power back into the hand of the people, where it should be, and should have never left. Thanks for coming to my TedX talk.
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lucky11
· 3 years ago
I could get behind that. It'd be almost impossible to do cause I can guarantee our current politicians would never go for it but yeah I'd be okay with a system like that.
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alekazam
· 3 years ago
Can we also get free ice cream on Thursdays?
lucky11
· 3 years ago
Anything it is theoretically possible.
bethorien
· 3 years ago
the main problem with this is that we would be required to make our voting no longer anonymous as we would need record of who voted for who to be able to have any of those who unvote for who they voted for.
lucky11
· 3 years ago
True, sort of. There are ways to mitigate it so that it's not tied directly to a person but then if the government tried hard enough they could produce a list. Technically they could do that now. Every voters ballot is tied to a number which is tied to your ID. The ballot numbers are counted but not at the same time. This is how they track multiple voting. It wouldn't be all that hard to then back track to a specific ballot number to see what they voted for. So we could do a system like is described and it would make it easier to get a list of voters who voted for who but the only major difference is right now we expect a right to privacy. There would definitely have to be more laws in place to protect the voter before this system could work but it wouldn't be to hard to actually implement. Again, it'll never happen because of politicians but it could be physically done.
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alekazam
· 3 years ago
Damn. Downvoting free ice cream? This is not a country I can stand behind.
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creativedragonbaby
· 3 years ago
There really isn't any "good" side to pick, is there?
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roanoke
· 3 years ago
Nope. Not really
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