the shit going on with the british parliament is reinforcing my belief that the parliamentary system of having the legislature elect/appoint the head of government is shit.

Andora has co-executives

But all I'm really talking about is that the head of government in a democratic system should either be elected by popular vote or indirectly elected like in the US, through a body that doesn't serve some other major governmental/political function

having the legislature appoint the executive is a shitshow waiting to happen, IMO

I think it tips the balance of power too heavily towards the legislature

A lot of the rhetoric about the proroguing is basically "Boris is defying the sovereignty of the parliament" or something to that effect

which is obviously a terrible take

sort of

legislative and executive power are considered seperate things for a reason

Giving the legislature so much control over the latter isn't a good idea

any more than it would be to give the executive tons of power over the legislature

that said, regarding the multiple executive things

actually nevermind

eh, whatever

I'd been thinking about a concept for a constitutional monarchy that does a sort of co-executive thing with the monarch and an elected president

not really a serious "I think this is a thing that should be implemented" kind of idea, though

but it does seem like there'd be a couple advantages

the power would be shared more equally

I know the queen does have power

but it's not a lot

that said, the idea was more based around the american system, so I don't know how well certain things translate

But that's a point though

The UK could really use a written constitution IMO

Far as I'm aware, the "unwritten constitution" is basically just centuries of legal precedent, which doesn't sound like a great thing to hang your entire government on.

Reminder that California is too big and should be broken up

Honestly, most of the state should just declare independance from the State of California

There's legal precedent for it.

Kentucky got started that way, IIRC

Part of it used to belong to virginia

or something

I could be misremembering

I think west virginia didn't exist yet

maybe I'm wrong

yeah, It was part of Virginia

ah damn, nevermind

Kentucky got permission from virginia

San Diego's okay

But LA to SF should be razed and salted

IDK though, the way things are worded, states need to give permission if a section of it wants to become a new state

But what if that section just decides to become a territory?

or someshit like that

I don't think there's anything in the constitution about that

to make a new state, sure

yeah

big states were a mistake

beat me too it

IDK about montana

but New York City alone would be like the 12th or 13th most populated state by itself

eh

Montana is one of the least populated states

what

oh

tbh still a response to alucard

Alternate proposal: nuke china

kek

free tibet, make the turkic muslim bit it's own country, give the mongolian part of China back to Mongolia, then give Manchuria to Japan because fuck China

probably

I'd suggest putting Hong Kong in charge of the rest of China but their government are half responsible for the current shitstorm

didn't know that

Well shit then

Just put hong kong in charge of the rest of China

they'd run it better than the CCP

I know about Taiwan

So we can all agree that if the EU decides to go full empire mode, they'd have no right to complain if the US decided to take over the western hemisphere, yes?

lol

more like the 5th time, really

I don't really know what the fuck the EU thinks it's going to do if it unifies with world power ambitions

In between Russia, who doesn't like it, and the USA, who sure as shit won't like it by that point

eh

Jefferson though

Germany should be dismanteled, though

they've basically proved at this point that they can't be trusted to act as a united country

honestly, that too

But they're cunts, so fuck'em

They're a rival, they don't really have the right to get butthurt over that kind of shit

They'd do the same if the situation was reversed

They should be trying to align with us against China

It definitely wouldn't be good

Frankly, I think the most likely outcome, if the EU somehow unified without collapsing in a burning fucking train wreck, is the EU aligning with China for lack of any other option, and the US and Russia aligning to each other as a result

All for walls, not so much for isolationism

usually hasn't worked out, historically

no like

It usually fucks over the country practicing it

and American prosperity's biggest kickstart was as a result of WW2

there is if you don't want the oil market, and by extension the global economy, to get fucked up

That's not how the economy works

If they stop producing oil, the price of oil will go up

Doesn't matter that we produce our own

People outside the country will want to buy it

So the price will go up

Our market isn't a closed system.

Don't get me wrong, I'll be first in line advocating that we cut ties with the Saudi's when oil isn't the main source of energy anymore

You can't put coal in a car

last I checked

Again, it doesn't matter that we produce enough for ourselves

If supply drops elsewhere, the companies will sell more outside

I'm all for helping latin america sort its shit so that it stops sending all its problems to us

helping them develop will cut down on the number of people coming here

Everything else is more shit than the NCR

as far as the west coast is concerned, anyway