• Hegar@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    Eliminating the Senate might seem like a good way to reduce the outsized influence that voters in smaller states wield, but the Senate helps keep those states in the union.

    Also, the death penalty should be eliminated, not expanded.

    We obviously need to address the fact that our government doesn’t represent the country, but drastically increasing the ability of larger states to ride roughshod over the interests of smaller states is not a recipe for stability.

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        4 months ago

        Don’t kill. Killing is wrong. No, seriously, it is so so bad. Don’t even think about it, because if you kill, we will kill you right back buster!

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        4 months ago

        The absolutists are wild… Some people absolutely deserve to never have influence over someone else ever again. There are only so many ways to actually accomplish that…

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      4 months ago

      The death penalty thing was said tongue in cheek. And we already settled the whole can you leave the union thing a little while back.

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      4 months ago

      the Senate helps keep those states in the union.

      In that case California should secede; we’ll be better represented that way.