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Grape posted:Make the senate a less people than reps thing that still fits to certain population parameters. Replace the Senate with the House of Lords.
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DrSunshine posted:Replace the Senate with the House of Lords. This, but not a copy of the House of Lords, the actual original House of Lords
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Quorum posted:This, but not a copy of the House of Lords, the actual original House of Lords America could solve Brexit and its own captured, crumbling democratic institutions all at once. Bend the knee and become subjects of the Queen again. All hail the new Commonwealth. edit: caveat: We'd have to salute with our palms facing out and stop visiting the dentist. This might be a deal breaker.
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Rolabi Wizenard posted:America could solve Brexit and its own captured, crumbling democratic institutions all at once. Bend the knee and become subjects of the Queen again. All hail the new Commonwealth. Americans, well known for affording to go to the dentist and totally not known for dying because they can't. Also a lot of Americans do salute with the palm facing out 
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No Safe Word posted:https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1171163877024948224 Definitely no competition between cities in Cascade, San Gabriel, Alamo, or Biscayne.
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Let all the top 50 CSAs be states, divide the rest of the country into 50 zones of equal population zones that also get to be states. Double the size of the Senate and up the House to around 2000 Representatives. It would be way more functional and have the ugliest borders since the HRE.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Let all the top 50 CSAs be states, divide the rest of the country into 50 zones of equal population zones that also get to be states. Double the size of the Senate and up the House to around 2000 Representatives. It would be way more functional and have the ugliest borders since the HRE. That gives you a range between smallest metrostate and largest metrostate in population of 1,162,893 to 22,679,948. It also means the forbiddenzonestates are all 2,402,051 people a piece.
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Sep 10, 2019 02:43
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What happens when one person walks from one of the states to another?
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Bloodnose posted:What happens when one person walks from one of the states to another? Nothing because they don’t change legal residences and it’s not a census year anyway.
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Bloodnose posted:What happens when one person walks from one of the states to another? Walking is forbidden in the forbidden zone, citizen.
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fishmech posted:Walking is forbidden in the forbidden zone, citizen.  America actually already has a ton of "Forbidden Zones". It really shows how obsolete the Senate is when you look at flyover country and realize it's essentially one big nature preserve that rich rancher and logger barons use to legitimize their filibustering of any non conservative policy.
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Sep 10, 2019 03:10
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Just do the system where people in the territories, possessions, and DC still get representation and voting/citizenship rights.
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Sep 10, 2019 03:42
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destroy most of the united states in an atomic war, turning much of it into a sort of "cursed earth" of radioactive desert. herd the surviving population into large mega-cities. now we have no need for a senate, electoral college, or even a house of representatives. instead, a cadre of heavily armed legal representatives could patrol the cities, acting as judge, jury, and executioner. these so-called "street judges" could then report directly to the council of five.
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Sep 10, 2019 03:50
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Bicameral legislature The lower chamber has representatives from geographic districts of equal population. The upper chamber has proportional representation and is chosen by nationwide vote.
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fishmech posted:That gives you a range between smallest metrostate and largest metrostate in population of 1,162,893 to 22,679,948. Still more fair than our current system.
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Platystemon posted:Bicameral legislature How dare you propose sensible solutions.
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I really like Germany's system the best - it keeps PR, but has a first step constituency vote, so geographic areas are not ignored or underrepresented (and theoretically, minorities would also benefit from this).
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Sep 10, 2019 07:29
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Hell, why involve geography at all? Elect Congress alphabetically based on your last name. So you'd have like a Senator from H.
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Elect a congress of random people from the phonebook and each new congress gets to redraw all the district and senate boundaries
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The American Government would make more sense if we replaced our single president with two consul's.
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Or two beagles. 
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Guavanaut posted:Or two beagles. Considering the success some minor towns have had with electing good boys as ceremonial Mayor, this is an idea worth investigating further.
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Powered Descent posted:Hell, why involve geography at all? Elect Congress alphabetically based on your last name. So you'd have like a Senator from H. my fellow libertarians, if we all change our names to start with X, we can definitely outnumber the existing X names and gain greater representation to help us liberate the united stares
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 It’s just a quick and dirty map someone made to illustrate a counterfactual.
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Platystemon posted:
What counterfactual? Lower sea level?
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How to flood fill and use terrible JPEG compression?
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Delthalaz posted:Elect a congress of random people from the phonebook and each new congress gets to redraw all the district and senate boundaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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"Oh no, I've got Congress Duty this week! They only pay you $5 a day!"
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:"Oh no, I've got Congress Duty this week! They only pay you $5 a day!" Worth it just for the franking privileges and the chance to name a post office after your dog tbh
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Platystemon posted:
As the Panama Canal enters its second century of construction...
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Cat Mattress posted:What counterfactual? Lower sea level? https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryWhatIf/comments/d1wfkc/what_if_the_caribbean_basin_was_closed_off_adding/
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I mean, that's a really, really stupid counterfactual, at least the "what if we dammed up the Mediterranean" scenarios take advantage of it being a nearly closed up sea... But the Caribbean? There is no natural barrier to speak of. Also tell your friend about the magic of Gimp/ Photoshop and layers.
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Also they've moved a lot of the islands around for no discernable reason
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Yeah Trinidad & Tobago is up top and the rest is just oi.
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The Breton Empire at its height
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I'm very much NOT okay with that map! 
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frankenfreak posted:I'm very much NOT okay with that map! Breizh, deus Enez Baffin da Glisson!
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