Right wing German political party AfD potentially getting banned before snap election

[Crassmeister]

• • If this person wanted a better argument, it's the fact that 350-someodd million people have to share merely 435 representatives and each state gets at least one, and therefore you get situations like Delaware's sole Represenative representing nearly 1 million people where as Montana's 2 Reps represent half that. Worse, the US average is about 760k people/rep, which is insanely more than any other major country (Germany = 117k/rep, Japan = 272k/rep). If we dropped it down to a managable 200k/rep, the House would need about 1675 Representatives total, or nearly 4x. You think Congress is bad NOW??

Education in how a system works will iron out like 95% of the dumbass noob questions people have.

yes I know, could be better and could be worse. so many of my pathetic countrymen were so butthurt by the January 6 debacle. OMG some angry fat white boys tried to break into the Capitol. And the pussies failed to accomplish anything.

in other countries they have fistfights in parliament. the american congress is an old lady's knitting club by comparison.
WE'RE MISSING ALL THIS REAL FUN

dunno about you but I'd pay good $$$ to see someone like AOC and MTG beat the shit out of each other

 

[fleacollerindustry]

The main tl;dr is that the United States would have never become the United States without that agreement. Everyone in the smaller states were afraid of states like Virginia and Pennsylvania dominating the government and not being able to get a say. That part still works. The very populated areas are not able to dictate everything to everyone.

Not to get down this rabbit hole, but this is also why I like the idea of the Electoral College. It's a great way to encourage Presidential Candidates from just sticking to their base (Dems hanging out in California and NY, GOP in Texas) because by bother going to anywhere else when 50% of your votes come from a few key states? I will die on this hill and will only change my mind if someone has a better voting system that preserves the federal nature of the United States.

That said, I do think the House of Represenatives needs to be increased from 435 seats to something like 650, and electoral college votes increased accordingly.

 

[fleacollerindustry]

yes I know, could be better and could be worse. so many of my pathetic countrymen were so butthurt by the January 6 debacle. OMG some angry fat white boys tried to break into the Capitol. And the pussies failed to accomplish anything.

in other countries they have fistfights in parliament. the american congress is an old lady's knitting club by comparison.
WE'RE MISSING ALL THIS REAL FUN

dunno about you but I'd pay good $$$ to see someone like AOC and MTG beat the shit out of each other

I don't disagree about the parliamentary fights:

 

[Quence]

including you?

Certainly NOT!

 

[Baka]

Not to get down this rabbit hole, but this is also why I like the idea of the Electoral College. It's a great way to encourage Presidential Candidates from just sticking to their base (Dems hanging out in California and NY, GOP in Texas) because by bother going to anywhere else when 50% of your votes come from a few key states?

a few key states are still deciding elections.