Brexit was arguably worse because the UK voted specifically to say fuck you we are not a part of your club, whereas the US voters moronically didn't understand civics yet again and let this moron back into power who then used foreign policy tools to corruptly enrich himself and also piss off all our friends. And when US voters had a chance to vote on how the moron was doing they unequivocally repudiated him harder than any party's been repudiated in the last 50 years.

What they will be weary of, and totally should be, is that they are just one election shy of another slimebag grifter who's willing to do the same again. I think these fences are somewhat mendable considering it's not our people's animosity toward them, it's oligarchs that are the problem. And oh by the way there is a huge problem with the EXACT same kind of voters and oligarchs and social media disinformation in every single one of those countries as well. You will need our help just like we needed yours to stand up to this shit. Our people share the same values still, they just need to be reminded of how absolutely destructive and empty fascism is as a philosophy and form of government.

We all need to fix this cost of living crisis among young people because it will only get worse as climate change will create a huge refugee migration and far right extremism will crash on democracies like waves on a beach until it gets sorted out and the rich people actually have to start paying taxes and can't just buy elections, politicians, and sock puppets online. Or it doesn't get sorted out and we will live in some kind of cyberpunk distopia resembling Snowcrash, which is the oligrachs' favorite book and what they based the networked state on.

/rant

Violent Revolution.

I don't remember the percentage of the top of my head, but in America a huge amount of people are one unexpected large bill away from poverty and a lot of people are living pay check to pay check. Once a significant portion of America can no longer afford bread, then we might see some change.... and likely deaths.

If it was revealed that the federal government is mostly a front to transnational criminal syndicates that traffic humans, smuggle drugs and weapons.

Oh wait...

There is an interstate pact that has 82% of electoral college votes required to subvert the electoral college and elect the president via a national popular vote. With the blue tsunami this week, it could in theory reach 100%, in which case the odds of the US ever having a Republican president again drop significantly since the majority of recent Republican presidental wins have actually lost the popular vote.

Probably getting rid of Citizen's United, taxing the wealthy correctly, getting rid of the electoral college, reworking the makeup of the Supreme Court, and ranked choice voting would do most of it. All hard but doable.

Theoretically we could end the electoral college next year. There's a thing called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. We now have trifectas in enough states for it to go in effect, should a few more states join. We also have Congress too (needed because they'll have to approve it). It's unlikely the federal government can force the states to do ranked choice voting without a Constitutional amendment. But we could implement it on a state by state basis. The Supreme Court could be reshaped by the next President and a willing Congress - the needed precedent is already there in the circuit courts. Citizen's United is trickiest. The straightforward approach requires either a Constitutional amendment or the Supreme Court to overturn itself. But it's possible there's some tricky alternate paths to accomplish the goal. One of them is convincing enough states to ban corporate spending on political speech. Since corporations are a state creation, they alone have that sort of power. Problem is even one non cooperating state could possibly ruin that. But there might be other ways too.

I would say money out of politics is a good start. Citizens United needs to go.

Beyond that though, American willingly voted in a man twice who said he grabs women by the pussy.

1. A segment of the population was ok with that
2. A segment of the population didn't care enough and either stayed home or still voted for him.

Then there's all the other shitty things about him that were known for years prior to 2016.

I don't know how you fix that. America shows us all who they are and how do you change who you are? A sexist, racist, money obsessed bipolar lunatic.

I'm unsure electoral reform by itself is going to happen. The problem is, we have a 250 year old constitution that hasn't modernized well, and old money has sunk its teeth deeply into the current system such that it's ineffective at real change. The idea of a 1 time, 5% wealth tax is the cutting edge of what's considered "radical".

In my opinion, what it will take, is someone like Trump, or worse than Trump, finally shaking the country to a breaking point where the old system collapses. And I'll be honest - I'd love to see the change, but I'm not sure I'll survive the surgery to get there. But what I think it will take is the country finally reaching a point where they push for a constitutional convention, and in that setting, lay out reforms for our current electoral process. Anything short of that, and you're basically looking to get to a majority of people in power willing to vote to give up their own power. That's not impossible, but tends only to be true in rare cases, immediately after a huge shift in power like a revolution.

Define electoral reform. Ranked voting in all states?

Don't count on it, they are proud that their constitution is really old.

Since voting in the USA is controlled at the state level, it would require a different effort on each state to replace First-past-the-post voting and other crucial reforms. Alaska has Ranked Choice Voting actually, despite conservatives putting ballot initiatives to go back to FPTP voting every election cycle.

The good news is that means electoral reform can happen easier at the state level then trying to push shit through at the federal level.

The bad news is liberals in this country get rock hard when they yell and scream at those disenfranchised by the two party system. They adore their chains.

u up 🍁?

And Iris² & Freya kicks off.

Trump sure burned what the USA had to the ground.

It seems even if scotus rules against Trump, his guys have work-arounds planned that start the whole process over. Hopefully that can change now but I doubt his level of hostility will.

Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one fills up first.

Likewise I'd like to be able to buy homelab server stuff from just over the southern border off eBay again without the fees being 10x the price of the item. I saw a $30 HDD backplane with $400 shipping

There’s a strong economic incentive to have a legislative majority rein in the Presidential power to levy tariffs.

The courts have repeatedly ruled that he doesn't even have the power to levy the tariffs he has, and yet people are still having to pay them.

What's bothersome is that Germany is just one of many countries that's chock full of open source developers contributing to open source projects that know better. Those guys are SMEs on the topic and their opinions should be taken as such.

Germany happens to have KDE and The Document Foundation which is probably one of the reasons so much money goes into "investing" in Germany by big tech.

Ooh woops yea I did 😅, thanks for the correction

As much as I would absolutely love for EU to collectively disown all dependence of America and invest in sovereign tech concentrated in Europe, I agree that it sadly seems like a far stretch, for now. But there has been progress - France's government opting to Linux over Windows, for example.

If you wouldn't mind sharing (totally fine if you don't), where are you based and/or what sector are you referring to?