Quote from: celedhring on October 14, 2025, 12:40:52 PMQuote from: Tonitrus on October 14, 2025, 12:18:39 PM*maybe before/after having most of the current administration arrested for corruption/malfeasance/abuse of office.
I take it for granted Trump will issue a mass pardon, so one less thing to do.
Quote from: Tonitrus on October 14, 2025, 12:18:39 PM*maybe before/after having most of the current administration arrested for corruption/malfeasance/abuse of office.
Quote from: Sophie Scholl on October 14, 2025, 12:03:35 PMEven dead Israelis, apparently, are far more important than living Gazans.![]()
"The fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was tested Tuesday as the slower-than-hoped return of deceased hostages from Gaza prompted an Israeli military agency to declare a "violation" of the truce agreement that it would respond to by halving the number of trucks allowed to bring humanitarian aid into the devastated territory."
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-hostages-ceasefire-10-14-2025-665a1cbe249f08c8513ceceaa04db201
Quote from: Tamas on October 12, 2025, 03:19:58 PMQuote from: crazy canuck on October 12, 2025, 11:03:25 AMQuote from: Tamas on October 11, 2025, 01:13:47 PMQuote from: crazy canuck on October 09, 2025, 03:16:13 PMQuote from: Tamas on October 09, 2025, 01:32:57 PMConcentrating power just concentrates power - you concentrate power in a few hands with no checks in balances to fight the rich and suddenly you have created your own enemy.
Checks and balances are annoying when your guy is being checked and balanced but the best system invented so far to maintain a democracy.
Where are the checks and balances to which you refer? Sounds great in theory - it's in practice that it starts crumbling. Take the US as the most recent tragic example.
Sure but no matter what system you build (and this is in reply to Sheilbh as well), anything beyond sheer physical coercion requires the consent of the ruled and the powerful to accept the rules.
First stop is the ones in power agreeing implicitly not to use their power to diminish other branches of power. If they try those other branches should push back before it is too late. Failing that, the electorate should step in to stop those efforts.
Obviously if all those steps fail then the system fails but this is not something you can remedy except by giving up and just going straight for your preferred form of autocracy.
Again, that is a very American centric view if the world. A parliamentary system does have competing branches of government. The flaw in the US system is it did create competing branches and hoped each branch would be a check on the others.
The Parliament system encourages cooperation. For a third time (because you keep ignoring this point) a non confidence vote, like a budget vote, means there is a new general election. That tends to focus the mind on what compromises are possible.
It also gives a lot of power to back benchers if someone like Trump (or Vance) were to arise.
A parlamentiary as opposed to presidential democracy is better no argument there, but just from my limited knowledge I can raise Hungary as a parlamentiary democracy that has failed. It even had a very modern two-rounds election system which was far superior to something like the British first past the post nonsense but once an actor like Orban got a constitutional majority it all went to hell.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on October 14, 2025, 08:15:03 AMAt this point, I don't think Supreme Court decisions can be taken as precedential. No one thinks that the holdings the Court has been announcing over the past 6 months expanding executive power will be honored if the Democrats ever retake the White House.
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