• ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip
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    21 days ago

    Not that I think he had much in the way of empathy prior to this, but he lacks a filter of any kind which is a symptom I had to repeatedly apologize for when my grandfather’s dementia got worse.

    The dude has full on dementia, no one is doing anything and he will continue to degrade both himself and the reputation of anything associated with him as this keeps going.

    Funnily enough, dipshit donny might be the best publically perceivable evidence of the need for reform we will ever get.

    • Gazza_of_the_Overflow@piefed.social
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      21 days ago

      Reforms that are needed:

      1. Compulsory voting for all citizens
      2. Ranked choice voting system
      3. Age limits for politicians

      I’m sure there are more, but this is just off the top of my head.

      • huppakee@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        Plenty of countries have laws that fine or otherwise punish people that do not vote, afaik this doesn’t tend to lead to better functioning democracies. I think this is a thing where the carrot works better than the stick.

        • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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          7 hours ago

          Automatic voter registration based on citizenship. Boom, solves a big percentage of the problem.

          You’d be shocked how much a bit of minor paperwork stops a large percentage of people from doing the bare minimum.