Fuck Off with that “both sides” nonsense.
I fucking love a general pardon for marijuana convicts. I fucking love a 35$ price cap on insulin. I fucking love the enshrinement of gay marriage into law. I fucking love that Joe Biden orders government agencies to provide abortion pills and other medical assistance to those who seek it, even if they live in republican states.
I fucking hate everything about republicans.
Either way you as a country still need something better than First Past The Post voting, which absolutely centralises power in to just two parties and makes a 3rd party impossible.
Mixed Member Proportional looks pretty good, where half of all seats are tied to local electorates and won by the votes in them, while the other half are given out to parties based on what’s needed to make the assembly match the overall voting of the country, e.g. if your party gets 50% of the popular vote but only wins 25% of location-based seats, you’re given enough unassigned seats to make it so that you control 50% of seats in the assembly.
Too bad one party has no interest in making it the system you use, and the other would actively fight it because it would kill them as a political force forever
America not only needs something better than FPTP, America deserves it
Did the general pardon for marijuana convicts happen yet? Are there plans to legalize or is it bad luck if your arrested a day after the pardon.
Democrats are superheros in comparison to the republican core but compared with about anyone else they are dumb, slow and ineffective.
Did the general pardon for marijuana convicts happen yet?
Yes, and that you don’t know is a statement about the shitty state of US media, which does not adequately report on what democrats do compared to what republicans say. Because it gives less clicks.
Are there plans to legalize or is it bad luck if your arrested a day after the pardon.
No plans for federal legalization (impossible with this senate anyways), but the pardon applies also to later convicts
regardless of whether they have been charged with or prosecuted for this offense on or before the date of this proclamation
and you can apply for a pardon certificate here: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/presidential-proclamation-marijuana-possession
“on or before” doesn’t include after.
Pretty cool it also applies to later convicts. A bit weird though that something is remains criminal by law but you can apply for a pardon certificate.
The modern quality standard for news reporting seems low almost everywhere. I was only really exposed to US media on reddit but other times a US president only has to sneeze for something to be reported and imitated worldwide.
Pretty cool it also applies to later convicts. A bit weird though that something is remains criminal by law but you can apply for a pardon certificate.
The modern quality standard for news reporting seems low almost everywhere. I was only really exposed to US media on reddit but other times a US president only has to sneeze for something to be reported and imitated worldwide.
Pretty cool it also applies to later convicts. A bit weird though that something is remains criminal by law but you can apply for a pardon certificate.
The modern quality standard for news reporting seems low almost everywhere. I was only really exposed to US media on reddit but other times a US president only has to sneeze for something to be reported and imitated worldwide.
i don’t really understand what you’re getting at
the humour isn’t really a political jab, it’s just supposed to be a cursed notion
Spot on with the rapey vibes coming from the elephant.
Dems can allow themselves to do bare minimum because they know that you don’t have other choice, because not voting or voting 3rd party is a terrible idea. They can occasionally do more than bare minimum, but at its core two-party system basically holds country hostage
why terrible idea
Because of how the system is set up, if people don’t vote specifically for dems, republicans win, and then start doing all sorts of nasty sruff
The “third parties” that run as part of the two parties are smarter. Think Bernie or the Tea Party. Then you can vote for them in the primaries without being used as a tool by the other party.
It’s funny because there isn’t one