instead of the VP, the tie breaker vote in the senate should be cast by a private citizen picked at random. let linda from michigan accept some life-changing bribe money for a change
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going to a diner in a small midwestern town to break the filibuster
jul 1, 2025, 9:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Simultaneously a great joke and a worthwhile idea.
jul 2, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
yeah if someone is going to sell us all out let it be someone who actually needs the payoff
jul 1, 2025, 9:13 pm • 5 0 • view
I’m from Michigan. Linda is super nice! But Monday’s her euchre night.
jul 2, 2025, 2:00 am • 3 0 • view
choose the entire senate randomly
jul 2, 2025, 1:46 am • 7 0 • view
probabilistically impossible that it would be worse than what we have now
jul 2, 2025, 3:15 am • 3 0 • view
Life would be a lot more interesting if governments were picked like Jury Duty. “Ah fuck I’ve gotta go be foreign affairs minister for 3 weeks”
jul 1, 2025, 11:06 pm • 17 1 • view
I've been proposing a rotating 5 month presidency, chosen at random from voting citizens who have successfully sat through a civil trial as a member of a jury. The winner gets an all-expenses paid residency at the White House for those 5 months.
jul 1, 2025, 11:57 pm • 1 0 • view
At the end of those 5 months, the next randomly selected winner can veto any legislation approved by the incumbent, but is subject to exactly the same rule by their successor. At the end of their term, they are given a special medallion and are stricken from the voting register.
jul 1, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I propose a headgear lottery, to help sort this out -- based on the cap(s) you tend to wear, as indexed on a Master List, then randomized across the thusly-attired demographic cohort
jul 2, 2025, 3:39 am • 1 0 • view
Linda more trustworthy by farrrrr
jul 1, 2025, 9:22 pm • 2 0 • view
But which Linda is it? Which one do we bribe? It’s like terminator, basically.
jul 1, 2025, 9:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah..JD looked wildly unprepared and stupid.
jul 1, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
It could also be someone from another democratic in good standing country looking at ours from an outside point of view.
jul 2, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Democracy by lottery, I’m all for it. Let’s fill every position this way
jul 1, 2025, 9:11 pm • 18 0 • view
Could NOT BE WORSE than whatever the hell this is that we’re doing now
jul 1, 2025, 9:12 pm • 13 0 • view
It's actually a pretty ancient idea! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
jul 2, 2025, 2:15 am • 6 0 • view
Love it! They actually do this currently in Pueblo cultures in New Mexico and it seems to work just fine for them
jul 2, 2025, 2:31 am • 4 0 • view
Every major policy should have a popular vote after congress has fiddled with it
jul 2, 2025, 12:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Honestly.. great idea, but it’s something blind or jury duty esque.
jul 2, 2025, 3:53 am • 2 0 • view
👍
jul 1, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
(Trump voice) We’re calling it Clarence Thomas for a day
jul 1, 2025, 9:13 pm • 8 0 • view