Ok, any other historical solutions that have worked?

Most of Europe has phenomenal education and happiness rates with low crime rates despite the massive impoverished refugee camps they’ve taken in out of goodwill. If competent legislative reform and regulation doesn’t work then businesses wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail to stop it. Better question: When has that other option ever worked?

It doesn’t “use” competition, competition is sometimes a condition, but capitalism works actively against competition.

And the absolute authority of the state to seize any and all assets, allocate all resources wherever they see fit, works actively against competition to a much higher degree, among the many other reasons not to do that. For an example look at Chinese housing infrastructure: everybody was built a home, massive complexes paid for by the public built by lowest bidders and people with connections rather than by developers and contractors. The problem is the homes weren’t built in the places those people live and work, so there is a massive homelessness problem in China and many housing units have sat vacant since they were built. And the amount of blood sacrificed to build this ineffective system under Mao was astronomical.

And that’s a controversial take. I could have brought up the USSR.

How to appoint SCOTUS judges:

1. Vacancy on Court (usually means the old Judge died)

2. Presidential Nomination

3. Senate votes to confirm

How to remove judges:

1. Impeachment hearings in congress

2. Senate votes to remove Judge

Thanks Xi cocksucker, always great to get your opinion.

“Usually don’t do anything” is an understatement.

They’re not complex enough to waste energy on non-food objects, though. Shark attacks are incredibly rare, and fatalities are less than a rounding error. But humans killing sharks, that is measurable in 9 digits annually.

If they’re trying to convince Republicans to vote against Trump then they’ve chosen the wrong argument.

During the last year of that, Obama was denied the ability to nominate a Supreme Court Justice on an Election Year. Then, Trump got 2 nominees appointed to the SCOTUS, one of which was on an election year.

A brilliant kind of stupidity, though. They know this won’t hold up, they’re just trying to buy time so Trump doesn’t spend part of his campaign behind bars.

Seems fair to me, tbh. I wouldn’t go there without diplomatic immunity or a burner anyways.

Yes. To clarify for you:

One story is he does regular legislative actions, the states can contest it

another story is he does something criminal as official business, nobody can do shit about it

How to be successful long term:

1. Make a good game

2. Don’t ship your game with a rootkit

3. Don’t ban entire regions from your game

Immune from criminal prosecution*

The state AGs can and will still challenge any and all such executive orders.

But if Biden hypothetically were to kidnap, beat, or murder supreme court justices or political opponents, then that’s another story.

“Prepare to travel by warp.”

“Captain, that will set us back days!”

Some users on here use Capitalism as an opposite term to Communism.

Holy Shit I know that crow.

Somewhere around the house I have an inked drawing with the same reference image.

I don’t really fit in that well here at times because I don’t consider Capitalism as having anything to do with governance. Capitalism is a market system that uses competition to drive efficiency of creation of satisfaction of needs and luxuries both. If your democratic system of laws is being leveraged by highly efficient non-state entities, then you should really fix that shit, but fixing it doesn’t require abolishing private property nor would that end corruption.

Occasionally people recognize me in the comments, they never have anything nice to say about it.

Ironically, Cauliflower has even less say in becoming wings than a chicken.

You didn’t bonk the room, though. You bonked me.

Read the room, pal, some people are choosing Ass World.

The hard part is getting people to run for office, getting funding for the campaign, organizing events and groups and managing staff to accomplish the goal of getting on the ballot and even then having a chance of winning is a bit of a long shot.

And worst of all, if you’re less moderate than the adjacent party then you’re going to split the vote of that party’s constituents and lead to the opponent’s party winning.