See that could be pretty easily achieved without eminent domain.

If you announced the program you’d probably have cities bidding against each other to host this department or that.

You’d probably have to create whole new departments just to appease cities and states that ended up not getting offices that you want to keep political capital with.

Establishing a Department of Language Accomodation in Queens would probably be the safe bet to test this kind of shenaniganery with.

TBF even Leninism is a stark departure from what MLs believe.

If you look at the original plans for the Soviet Union, Lenin was basically planning a Syndicalist Representative-Democracy. Problem was that Lenin got too bogged down in crushing any chance that said democracy would vote against itself, and then Stalin just decided to go full corporate town with it.

Either all those YouTubers collected the check from Raid without even touching the thing or they make up 99% of the playerbase at this point and it’s basically their best kept secret social club.

Conspiracy Theorist culture has been coopted by the evangelical right in the wake of shit like Watergate and Iran-Contra making a non-interfered-with conspiracy theorist culture seem too dangerous to the right to be allowed to persist.

Evidence being that if you go far enough down the rabbit holes of the looney theories we all like to make fun of, you’ll inevitably find some evangelical nut preaching about how it has to be that way either because they believe it says so in the bible or because they believe it’s a sign of the rapture which is surely happening within their lifetime, or often both.

It’s like the most dangerous kind of conservative appropriation of counterculture narrative.

That’d have some pretty dark implications for the recent assassination attempts then.

It’s one of those things that mostly works because there aren’t many rich people.

Since crimes committed by rich folks are mostly white collar, they’re rarely a danger to society if let back onto the streets.

It’s one of those statistical solutions that doesn’t really do enough thinking about why the statistics shake out that way.

That said, there is a gradient, rich folks can make bail for petty offenses but for violent ones judges may be inclined to just deny bail purely because the rich prick would be able to post it easily and the crime they’re accused of warrants not letting them back out.

Probably only if that city was a new planned capitol like the CBC has suggested be developed on the Republican River.

See I could see this working if it weren’t for the sheer number of data points you’d need to collect consistently to create a trainable model.

Nah, number of properties is a pretty fucking good metric.

Being a “bad” landlord isn’t the issue, the issue is taking properties off the housing market for rent collection, and driving up prices for everyone else in the process.

There are more empty units in this country than unhoused people to fill them, this housing crisis is one built entirely out of artificial scarcity created by letting speculators buy up supply basically for the purpose of scalping them to poor people who can’t say no to the product.

It’s the same kind of “market efficiency” that has ballooned medical costs, who can afford to compare costs on a kidney transplant? Nobody. Who can afford to shop around and wait on houses? Unless you’re very lucky in today’s economy, also nobody.

Housing does not abide the same market rules as designer T-shirts. Necessity goods will inherently have a hostage effect on the customers where you could in theory charge any price and just make the disinfortuned eat shit for it.

I was thinking more non-occupancy just meaning “that you don’t live in yourself”, so that would mean filling your rentals with tenants doesn’t save you from the tax.

Chicky Hopping Baby T-Rexes Cannon!

Most likely the weight difference would be the biggest issue here.

Same reason why to scale bug wings wouldn’t let you fly, that square cube law can lead to some very unfun conclusions where big beasties are concerned.

Or some absolutely terrifying ones in Shin Godzilla’s case.

Of course there’s the best option which is an non-occupancy tax that goes up exponentially for each additional property you’re sitting on for speculation.

That right there would be a hard counter to wallstreet hoovering in the housing market.

Forget german tanks making way to moscow by itself, I’m now shitting myself thinking of the ramifications of the giant-ass hole Israel’d have blown through the caucuses to be beelining it over land!

The Jewish Homeland argument has gone full irredentism and now we’ve got a revived Khazar Khaganate!

This has actually been studied

Anti-Authoritarians and Moderates view it as best to be seen as Anti-Authoritarians, Authoritarians view it best to be seen as Moderates.

They literally view opportunistic claiming of the center not just as a political tool but as a social survival tactic to not be ostracized for their bullshit.

Thanks I hate it.

Yeah, and that’s not needed when the senate can perform that role just as well and also be a more functioning version of itself for it.

There is no need for a singular focalpoint of elected power.

There would be no independent executive branch, the very concept inevitably endangers democratic systems by creating a person with a lot of power who inherently is going to view any disagreement of course of action from the people’s representatives as an obstacle to be gotten around.

Or have you missed all the headlines about the over reliance reliance on executive orders over the past decade and change? Not to mention how the fiat veto was never intended but instead the result of Andrew Jackson just deciding he didn’t have to give congress a reason why their laws were being treated with the same energy as shit that was at a minimum arguably unconstitutional up to that point.

The independent executive is a leach that parasitically sucks power away from the elected representatives of the people, and imposes “checks” on their powers that not only are entirely unneeded, but actively endanger the health of the republic.

Everywhere that’s tried american style democracy since the US formed has collapsed in dramatic fashion, everywhere else that’s gone with a parliamentary system has at worst had periods of endangerment, mostly caused by a parliamentary leader trying to get the powers of an american style president, gestures wildly at Orban and Erdogan

I believe we need to abolish the presidency in the near future and distribute the powers to the House and Senate. Powers of government to the House and Powers of State to the Senate, with some fudging for checks and balances, like house passes laws and Senate has to intervene to veto them with some qualified majority rules like the EU has.

I believe this has to be done because it’s pretty clear that a system with a single powerful leader inherently puts all the strain and division of the nation into that leader, especially when there’s no recourse when public sentiment turns against that leader except for voting them out, if that’s even an option to begin with.

A dual-parliamentary system with some restructuring of the House and Senate would go a LONG way in venting a significant amount of the pressure that has built up under our elected leaders as of late.

Also replace the singular supreme court with a sortitionate bench that’s drawn randomly for each case that rises to federal jurisdiction to shoot jurisdiction shopping dead.

Basically for a race with multiple open seats, just keep repeating the “compare the top two rated candidates” step filling each seat with the winner of the comparison until all seats are filled, doesn’t just fill seats though, because the win matrix can also be used as a list of succession in case of recalls or deaths or resignations that’d leave a vacancy.

We’d see a lot of districts seat all dems and reps at the outset, but over time you’d see a much more diverse cast and a much less party hierarchy controllable process.