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Walrus 🏴And again with alt-text.
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James Wells@Seilenos
And even more incredible when you realize that all three men came back into power in violation of their own country's laws and constitutions.
Chump violated the 14th Amendment when he swore into office the second time.
Putin actually had Medvedev "change" the law limiting number of terms so Putin could take over again after Medvedev. Medvedev didn't change the law, merely ordered that it not be enforced
Don't remember Netenyahu's, but I remember reading about it
Nicole ParsonsIt's amazing that these 3 men gained the financial support of the most corrupt & toxic industry on the planet...
... the fossil fuel industry funds all three.
AsozialesNetzwerk Sektion Köln
George Dinwiddie
arrakeen_urbanite@Seilenos Well, a white man, an orange man, and a man with actually quite a decent looking tan. 2 are irrefutable war mongers, and the other one recently won a soccer-themed peace prize.
MegatronicThronBanksThey are symptoms, not causes.
🎆🎉 Masto New Year 🎊🎇@Seilenos "Most of what's bad in the world is because of stupid! Old! Men!!"
- Maria, Castlevania Nocturne
Nils Hammer@Seilenos It‘s also incredible that two thirds of those men came into power by democratic elections.
GrantDemocracy by definition, is created by people who respect laws.
Unfortunately, criminals and narcissists spend every second of their lives, trying to work out how to manipulate it for their personal gain (money + power).
The future of mankind must build democracies that have protections to prevent these people from gaining power.
datenwolfIt's actually pretty easy: A lot of people conflate democracy with elections-by-popular-vote; case in point: Every autocratic regime will hold "elections" to show how "democratic" they are.
The core idea of democracy is government by the people; the representatives shall – well – represent the demographic makeup.
Election-by-popular-vote can be manipulated by emotional influence on the voters.
Solution: Election-by-random-sampling and random-replacement.
Each year randomly choose a certain fraction of the people in the government to be replaced, weighed by power law on time in office.
Incentivize people to enter the rooster by giving them tax breaks (or higher benefits if unemployed). But then the condition is: If you're voted in, you're in. No backing out.
@datenwolf
I'm afraid I'm not convinced. You could also argue that decisions made by randomly sampled representatives can be manipulated. And the proposed system lacks possibility for the people to express their will. We might have to find other forms of representation. We might have to introduce directer forms of democracy. But I think that some sort of election must always be included.
@gsymon @Seilenos
I'm afraid I'm not convinced. You could also argue that decisions made by randomly sampled representatives can be manipulated. And the proposed system lacks possibility for the people to express their will. We might have to find other forms of representation. We might have to introduce directer forms of democracy. But I think that some sort of election must always be included.
@gsymon @Seilenos
What mechanism does the system of election-by-vote provide for people to express their will?
Last time I put my mark on a ballot in a major election, I was voting for a person, not for a decision on a topic.
The beauty of random sampling of representatives is, that it will also do a random sampling of the populace's will-space.
Also election-by-random choice effectively eliminates lobbying efforts through grooming a select few high-profile politicians.
You can't groom candidates before an election cycle if you don't know, who's actually going to be selected.
Election-by-random-choice is actually tried in ancient Greece, predating the election-by-vote method.
@datenwolf
Yeah, but you can groom them afterwards. And as I said we might have to change the way of representation and might implement more votes on topics not just persons or parties.
@gsymon @Seilenos
Yeah, but you can groom them afterwards. And as I said we might have to change the way of representation and might implement more votes on topics not just persons or parties.
@gsymon @Seilenos
lankohr@Seilenos Don't forget the Pope, the german Bundeskanzler Merz and all the others. There are many white men in their 70s causing unnessary doomsday.
@ankoeln @Seilenos "Pope Leo helped shield clergy accused of abuse" https://chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv/2025/12/04/victims-call-for-investigation-of-pope-leo-xiv-amid-new-evidence-of-role-in-sexual-abuse-cover-up-in-peru
Seems to me like every pope.
@lankohr Yeah, when it comes to internal matters, they're indeed all the same I guess 😡
But I doubt that even a theoretical young, female Pope of Colour (if that were even possible) would really be able to change that. The whole Church is a big system of abuse, it's too deeply ingrained in it. @Seilenos
But I doubt that even a theoretical young, female Pope of Colour (if that were even possible) would really be able to change that. The whole Church is a big system of abuse, it's too deeply ingrained in it. @Seilenos
millennial fulcrum@Seilenos resolve them.
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Badly-read literary snob@Seilenos I don’t think the fact that they are in their 70s matters. Is not like they went off the rails after their birthday
snakespeare@RosaCtrl @Seilenos I think it matters more than people are comfortable to admit. As we humans age, our brains shrink. The parts response for empathy, impulse control, and peoblem-solving, are the last to mature, and also the first to decline when getting older. No one over 70 should be in charge of anything.
@snakespeare @Seilenos we know that happens due to socialisation. The world is full of counter-examples of old people, over 80, that don’t fit your description. Some of them I know myself.
No one should have the power those assholes have though, regardless of their age
@RosaCtrl @Seilenos We know that what happens due to socialisation? The world is also full of examples of mature and kind children, but that doesn't mean children should drive, or hold leadership positions. Elderly people are a lot like children in that way. I'm not saying old people are bad, I'm saying they're cognitively deficient.
@snakespeare @Seilenos look at universities, look at the age of people being experts in their field. When you are kept active and not excluded from society, there’s no noticeable cognitive deficiency. If you are abandoned in a nursing home though, then yeah, you will quickly deteriorate.
Those three assholes in the original post have been like that all their lives. They didn’t went nuts after they turned certain age. I don’t want a younger Putin in power
hiphopheaven@Seilenos trump is the worst but he is just part of america imperalist system of world destabilization. All those countries who didn't stop israel after the nekba and the six day war are also responsible of creating Satanyahu
Mormegil@Seilenos
Not just "global". We have a new designated 71-year old prime minister whose primary goal in the function is avoiding jail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Babi%C5%A1
Not just "global". We have a new designated 71-year old prime minister whose primary goal in the function is avoiding jail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Babi%C5%A1
