Exceeding true which ends up meaning either technocratic democracy or representative Republic.

The techno route basically requires the best possible reddit where subject matter experts can weigh in and formulate options that are explained and then people can read the synopsis and vote. Idealistic but within the realm of doable.

Representative Republic would require wages comfortable enough to not compel corruption. I’d say no public trading but the stock market and all it entails are one of the largest sources of corruption. Market makers and every kind of derivative would have to go. The only thing that should be allowed is buying stock your support or selling stock you no longer want to own. Everything else is a haven for crime and theft against the working class.

But most of the problem with most solutions is that the bad guys have all the money and the masses are stupid and easily misled…

Yes, it’s technically technologically tryable but not practically politically possible.

I think you misunderstand. I don’t see that as the fix. A system like that would only work with an educated populace that understands more than the bare minimum to get by, if that.

The only real fix is a populace that can think critically and is informed, but even that’s not easily attained at this point as there’s so much money to be made with institutionalization.

Basically get something like reddit/lemmy as a social forum. You use it for business reviews, running for office, looking for jobs, raising issues and crowd sourcing solutions. Make it block chain with each state hosting a node. Make every user verified and use it for voting. It’s absolutely a solvable problem it’s just that all the money and power is actively working against progress.

I’ve been wondering if something like the United Countries of North America type of EU but that still leaves all kinds of questions about the military and how much blood the road from here will take.

Absolutely. Great video on the matter: https://youtu.be/xDgzgDSInt0

People, at least Americans, today aren’t capable of it for multiple reasons, most of them systemic and intentional.

Decades of cuts to education and the social fabric have rendered most of the populace too ignorant about everything for giving them a say being a good idea.

Like term limits. How many people would vote for term limits without doing any research to find out they basically always make things worse because they keep out the people that want to spend their lives in faithful public service while there are no shortage of stooges corporations can push through.

So, you have the third of the country that voted for fascism. Pretty bad…

But then you have the other third that’s convinced voting for Democrats that spent 50 years empowering fascism will save them.

Then you have the third that’s completely disengaged because they don’t care.

Direct democracy can’t work as long as people believe capitalism serves anything other than the ruling class.

I work 4x10 wfh and I’m more productive than the people that go into the office despite spending no less than half the day playing videogames.

I always keep in mind the first doctor to advocate washing hands after handling corpses was laughed out of medicine and died alone in an asylum ironically enough from sepsis.

To that point, the vast majority of research on nutrition is done on the presumption carbohydrates should be the foundation of our diet. Even “low” carb diet studies with have 30% of the calories coming from simple carbs. Oddly enough, the human body works much differently and much better when you don’t give it -any- sugar: https://youtu.be/cST99piL71E

I can expand, but briefly, sugar acts like a sandblaster through your heart and shreds the endothelium (the finger-things that move things in and out of the bloodstream). LDL is a repair van that drives around with cholesterol and saturated fat to repair the plaques. (HDL brings empty LDL back to the liver) The entire logic of blaming cholesterol for heart disease is like blaming bandaids for stab wounds. Doctors say eat less fat and more “healthy whole grains” (carbs) and the liver makes more cholesterol. Doctor sees cholesterol is still high because the body needs it and prescribes statins which impair production. This leads to nerve pain because it’s what literally every nerve in the body is insulated with.

The problems with cholesterol stem from it sitting in the bloodstream and glycating due to prolonged sugar exposure. Sugar staying in the bloodstream is basically ketoacidosis, so clearing sugar is a priority that results in LDL gumming up and going bad, essentially.

I can expand on this, but basically the human body needs predominantly fat with some protein and actually zero carbs.

I hope this is a bot account or something because this is sincerely one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever read. I’ve seen barnacles with more purpose in life than this.

I remember reading a study on this where all the scientists replaced their home ranges because the results were so bad.

Empathy and intelligence are good proxies for political orientation.

The smarter and/or more empathic people are the more left they tend to skew.

Objectively, you sound ignorant and wholly self centered but still not self interested to the point you need other people to tell you your views because you haven’t thought about them yourself. At this point, your opinion is whatever people tell you to make it.

But if you’re not a straight white man or a tradfem you’re actively disservicing yourself by not understanding what being politically ignorant has on literally every facet of your existence from the water you drink to your validity as an autonomous individual.

Then even if you are a straight white man, racism is largely a misdirection for class warfare via wage theft, wage suppression, and inflation.

Explore this site and take the quiz if you’re curious, but also look at the history of US elections and notice how far right candidates have gone the last 2 decades.

Take note of how far RIGHT candidates portrayed as “left” are.

https://politicalcompass.org/uselection2004

Look at the scatter plots more closely.

Every dot (pair) is one precinct reporting.

Up and down is % of the vote.

Left to right is time in order of report.

Every dot is a unique data point. There should be no link in the results between precincts, right? Everyone should just be a total of votes for Trump or Harris.

That’s exactly what was seen for the results of early voting ballots. Normal.

However, there’s an obvious bias for Trump in the other reporting that increases in an obvious, consistent trend increasingly for Trump that’s basically impossible to have organically.

Even if what you said were true, it couldn’t account for the clean trend line working toward a goal.

The more densely populated an area is, the bluer it votes. The areas with the most people and lean blue should take longer to report. The smaller the precinct , the more red it usually goes but also faster to report. However, the most Trump leaning result came in last including large blue areas.

Analysing the data raises a lot of red flags that Democrats are all Helen Keller about.

“you didn’t believe the proof I didn’t have so I won’t even look at your proof I can’t understand”

Did Republicans ever show any evidence ever?

I suppose statistically impossible results would be more significant if you understood statistics.

This dude is 100% right.

It may not be why Bernie does it but it’s why they allow him to exist. He is a pressure release valve so people angry enough to do something can follow him instead of Luigi.

Then, when the primaries are rigged against him the DNC leadership can say look, you lost fair and square! voters don’t want progress and continue serving the rich.

Meanwhile, liberals, progressives, leftists, and everything not pro fascists blame each other for losing an election that was stolen.

https://electiontruthalliance.org/clark-county%2C-nv

https://www.kkoh.com/2025/01/21/nv-sos-launches-investigations-into-election-fraud/

Around 3/4ths of theft in this country is wage theft by corporations that will never be punished. They steal trillions from us while we would be jailed for a loaf of bread in some jurisdictions.

Inflation paired with wage suppression is class warfare in a battle of attrition. Liberals that refuse to raise taxes on corporations or wages for workers just legitimize exploitation.

Yes.

In the short term not much will change and no one will react. By the time they want to react, they’ll play into a fascist crackdown.

Look into the Business Plot. This is basically the result of a century of planning between business interests and religious fanatics with too much money.

As long as capitalism is propagandized as a good thing, civilization will continue to face this issue of the few exploiting the many.

Do you believe every human deserves the same rights and dignities? It’s not possible to make a cell phone without relying on slave labor in the supply chains.

Profit is unpaid labor. As long as we normalize giving at the profits to those that already have everything, civilisations will continue to implode until one makes a mistake of such hubris everyone dies. Look at PFAS. One day we will unleash something we can’t contain and we’ll be dead before we can detect it or treat it.

Our species simply will not survive because we’re too eager to shit where we sleep just so we don’t have to walk all the way to the bathroom.