Who decides what a random person is and what a knowledgeable person is in your scenario though? Where are these knowledgeable people? Our current Speaker of the House every time he gets in front of a TV Camera claims he knows nothing at all whatsoever. He’s never heard anything he’s never read anything he’s never seen anything and he just doesn’t know about anything. So knowledgeable people aren’t in charge now.
- 11 Posts
- 593 Comments
Maybe not everything, but we could certainly vote on a lot more directly. There’s no reason we couldn’t. Representative government was a necessity when we only used horses to get everywhere. Now much less reason for it.
Sortition. It’s a system that sounded crazy decades ago when I first heard it, but the more and more you think about it the more and more it doesn’t seem that bad.
OP has no idea what health insurance cost these days.
I wouldn’t say it’s so that they can’t be bought, so much as so they don’t have to be bought. It’s part of the reason they haven’t voted for a pay raise and so long. Their owners don’t want them to have other options.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zipto
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•This is a calm space in London's Ealing Broadway station. It provides people with a place to pause and reset
2·2 days agoI feel like that would make me extremely claustrophobic.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zipto
News@lemmy.world•Trump can’t stop changing the name of things and now has US state as his target
6·2 days agoWhy doesn’t he start renaming his shitty kids America?
I wish my bills were that low.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zipto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•People are sitting on the bike lane or parking on it. Saint Denis, FranceEnglish
101·4 days agoComplete opposite here. I understand the parking, that’s just standard asshole Behavior. That I get. I’m used to it. The sitting is just fucking bizarre. Why? Just why? They brought a chair for fucks sake. Out into the street. They passed the wide open sidewalk while carrying their chair. It makes no sense.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zipto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do women in golf wear those short/skirt things while the men wear pants?
18·5 days agoCause they won’t let the men wear skirts too the sexists.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zipto
Europe@feddit.org•Germany approves nearly $1bn in arms exports to IsraelEnglish
5·5 days agoThey ain’t exactly rushing to defend transsexual people worldwide. Way more than just Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust. They only feel guilty about the Jewish ones?
Sharkticon@lemmy.zipto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that a man killed his daughter in Texas after arguing about Donald Trump. The local jury refused to indict him. He was immediatly released.English
6·6 days agoBeto came pretty close against Cruz. But that was basically it in the last 30 or so years. Every other time has been a route basically. The Texas Democratic party is beyond incompetent.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zipto
Fuck AI@lemmy.world•If all the worst people you know are supporting something...
94·7 days agoI’m trying to decide if the acting would be worse if it was the real Gal Gadot or an AI version…
I just straight don’t believe this.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zipto
science@lemmy.world•At least 1 in 4 former NFL players in study suffered from degenerative brain disease CTEEnglish
2·9 days agoI know why.
To be purposefully misleading in an effort to drive engagement. Cause op sucks.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Debian votes to allow 'responsible use of generative AI'English
82·10 days agoWhole lot of cope going on in these comments.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zipto
News@lemmy.world•Dutch court sentences man to life over Rwanda genocide
5·11 days agoWell done. It’s never too late for justice.










That isn’t quite accurate. Congress hasn’t gotten a pay raise since 2009. Because they vote against giving themselves one.