Rent control is a good first step. Building more is second.

Cooperations crying that controlled rent is bad bc it doesn’t let them build more… have they tried reducing the CEOs’ pay? And asking for government intervention in building houses?

Oh, they plenty do. They just call it school shootings, or “poor cops being harassed by mobs” (when the cops kill any semblance of liberty).

People who enploy hate speech need to have their access to internet revoked, I feel. Though I wonder if that won’t open up all sorts of nasty backdoors…

Tja, het is een PVV’er. Trump maar in een Hollands jasje.

That but with the 🫃 one

Hold your horses. He is no Trumpist, but he is in my view a fairly average Pope, and opposes abortion, euthanasia, etc… still pretty damn conservative.

I sure do hope his appointment wasn’t through corruption and bribery of cardinals by Trump…

Though, why should we care what a few insane (possibly protestant) people think about the appointment of a Catholic pope?

It’s time to deplatform those. We don’t need to give idiots attention, because they cry for it.

I’d say it counts as justice, but truly uplifting would best be news where no harm is done.

So…

Very good. The Netherlands has been doing this too.

Oh, I agree, but it’s depressing to know that there are people in the Republican Party that would probably violate that rule easily. Not that I ever trusted them, though.

Catholic bible belts exist too.

Shower thought: maybe there should be an age / 2 + 7 law for marriage, with the minimum age of the youngest involved in the marriage being 18.

Then you don’t get any of that 50 yo people marrying 18 year olds anymore. Instead, those would have to look at 32 years.

And also Americans are prudish if Jane Jackson shows a tit but are happy exposing children to militarism so they can die twenty years later.

Pretty progressive I guess, no abortion before birth but instead it’s at the 76th trimester.

The USA is a Christian fundamentalist oligarchic theocratic surveillance police state.

The Supreme Court shouldn’t even be appointable by a politician at all. It otherwise will be too partisan. If you ask me, the best government is one where the most powerful are no more powerful than you and me.

But anyway, the Supreme Court should also be significantly expanded. C = 0.075 3sqrt(US populace + 2) would be a good formula, where C = court size. The populace is all residents, legal and illegal.

According to this formula, the US in 2020 should’ve had 54 judges. The supreme judges could be elected from a pool of multiple random ballots, out of a pool of all federal judges, whereas the latter could be appointed by the same method, through a pool of all, who have passed juridicial examination; the examination requirements are set by an independent Examination Commission, randomly appointed from a group of all federal judges, who then have to give up their federal judgehood for life. The position is for as long as they would be federal judges.

Any judge also may not be politically active, ever. Once become a judge, you can never run in life anymore for politics, and vice versa.

Edit: I’d also add that the Supreme Court members shouldn’t be able to be removed by a politician - only by 2/3 majority of another independent commission. This Safety Commission, like the Examination Commission, has half the amount of the Supreme Court’s members, so 27 in this case. This commission is composed from randomly chosen federal judges who aren’t part of the other commission nor are supreme court members. The position is also for life.

The Supreme Court’s power to overrule politicians’ breach of laws should also not be removable; and it should have the power to fire the members of cabinet, if there is a 2/3 support within the court.

Martin Bosma had nooit een krans mogen leggen. Het is walgelijk. Ik ben daarom ook niet bij de Dodenherdenking geweest.

How about spray/gel?

That is very mature to realise, honestly. Can commend that.

Hang on, what’s going on over there?

2 weeks and I already had it. I suppose I’m speedrunning it…