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jshier • today at 6:17 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Yet another thing to make illegal in '29. We're going to have to reform the whole notion of the executive.


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skissane • today at 8:53 PM

Adopting a parliamentary system would avoid many of these problems—albeit it would require a constitutional amendment. The President could be elected by the House of Representatives from among its own members, for an indefinite term, but could be sacked by the House at any time by a simple majority vote. The President would continue to be a member of the House, and automatically lose office as President if they lost their seat in the House.

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fhdkweig • today at 6:32 PM

It is sad knowing we are spending all this money on monuments that will just be spent all over again when we remove them in 2 years. And yes, these word/name changes are meant to be a monument, a tangible mark on history.

tdeck • today at 6:54 PM

Or we could just talk a lot about a return to "norms" without reforming anything.

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ModernMech • today at 9:50 PM

None of this would be happening if we had put this man on trial for espionage and insurrection. We don’t necessarily need more laws we just need to enforce the ones we have against billionaires. We can pass all the laws we want but if they don’t apply to billionaires there’s no country left to save.

acheron • today at 9:26 PM

Best I can do is all the same shit from a different group of people.