@TimeSpent @Tony @Saber @Barbecued_Lemons
Exactly! Nothing makes me lose faith in humanity like reading Fedi in the morning: first the left jumping out of their pants to defend fucking TikTok, and then this thread about how great it was to be someone's property.
Healthy food? Support children? Force to negotiate? Are you guys for real?
@udongle @Tony @Saber @Barbecued_Lemons @BowsacNoodle @TimeSpent @m0xee Another methods is having people you trust who do closely follow politics. Of course in Clown World who can you trust? Changing and now replacing the legacy people makes this currently useless.
And the US system simply didn't, couldn't scale up, but early one I've read a Congressional district which is also used for the Electoral College had about thirty thousand people and thus you likely knew someone who knew someone who actually knew the candidate and you could get transitive vetting that way.
Of course, another thing is limited government, the weightiest things it should be dealing with are foreign policy and the military. Even then, see how the cantons of the Swiss Confederation spend most of the military money last time I checked.