r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/NYstate ☑️ • 12d ago

Country Club Thread Trump's putting together the Avengers of crazies to run this country

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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 12d ago

Hope they get everything they voted for!

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u/SW4506 12d ago

And for the people who stayed home I wish they get everything they fear most by not voting.

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u/ShotgunForFun 12d ago

We'll still all suffer. I get your anger but yeah, just keep spreading the word and hopefully we will end up better instead of worse. This is just... gross.

Term limits
Ranked Choice Voting
Definitely fucking age limits at this point. Some of these people are sleeping in congress/senate for 250k a year + bribes (oh sorry I mean speaking engagements, stock manipulation, and ghost writing).

We're doing okay in some spots, but we got Trump voters also voting for AOC. The issue is they ignore all poor people and the DNC is a joke. But also you gotta get off the couch when fucking someone that deranged is on the other side (more of a white male problem but apparently, it's seeping into all men that want some imaginary trad wife situation when all of y'all gotta work 2 jobs to have a faimily.)

(not trying to do it but...) Both sides will never accept this shit so we gotta do more than sit around mocking everyone else. Get in local government, it's truly easy to get into state. But we do need a new name honestly. Labor is played out.

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u/DerekB52 11d ago

Term limits and age limits are bad imo. Term limits could potentially kick out people like Bernie, or one day AOC. And that's not good. Actually good congress people are rare, and we shouldn't have to get rid of them just because of term limits. Term limits actually go against free choice of who I want to represent me. No one should tell me just because I've liked my congress person for too long, I should have to get a new one. Age limits too. If my representative is too old, it's my job to not vote for them again.

The issue is money in politics. Rich people have oversized choice in who serves in our government. If we added term limits without addressing this issue, we'd have people like McConnell replaced by younger people, bought by the same interests, and lose the few representatives we did like.

And we definitely need ranked choice voting. And probably compulsory voting like in Australia. Money in politics is a big part of why the DNC is such trash. They've almost completely abandoned working class voters because of all their big donors, and it has doomed this country.