πππ· France, population 68 million: 577 delegates in National Assembly
Germany, population 83 million: 736 seats in Bundestag
United States, population 332 million: 435 representatives in the House
#DefendDemocracy#HouseReform
The 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act capped the size of the House at 435. Till then it grew with each decennial census, as it was designed to do. Its failure to grow is the source of much of the systemβs dysfunction and democratic deficit. Congress should at least double in size.
The DeSantis administration is attempting to block Department of Justice election monitors from gaining access to polling places in South Florida, saying that the federal governmentβs involvement would be βcounterproductiveβ and in violation of state law.
https://t.co/roJok84OQD
@mfstern πππ· Maybe they're all masochists longing to be officially insulted as fake news & threatened to be incarcerated for asking naughty questions.
It's a kind of mental corruption.
#DefendDemocracy#YourVoiceMatters#VOTE
πππ· βdemocracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been triedβ
βWinston Churchillβ
There's no fairer & more successful alternative to democracy β if you can keep it!
#DefendDemocracy#YourVoiceMatters
ππ°π· What's Musk's game here?
He'd hate it, if his businesses & monopolies were regulated & controlled!π―
#DefendDemocracy#WatchMusk#WildBiz
https://t.co/L2lKs7YWrF
πππ· Hahaha, so far @elonmusk didn't care to clean his own account from 50+ million bots & fake accounts, that are following him like a walking dick!
#DefendDemocracy#Twexit ππππ
If youβre NOT a bot and voting BLUE, please take a second to reply with π. Lets prove a point to the right-wing trolls who claim most of our followers βare fake.β
@ireallydocare2 πππ· And obviously they don't get paid to obstruct user interaction by
- limiting the visibility of your posts
- falsely telling people your tweets had been deleted
- disabling likes, retweets & replied to/of your posts
#Twexit#GoMastodon#DefendDemocracy
@ireallydocare2 πππ· IMO https://t.co/LTIBE2f7gJ is a good choice:
As fast as twitter has been ages ago, 500 character message limit, international servers, no realtime-spying on your posts, seconds to login/-out only, not minutes, pleasant design...
#Twexit#DefendDemocracy
ππ€π· Whining @elonmusk is suppressing #FreeSpeech rather than being its proponent!
He doesn't let anyone see our tweets containing the word "mastodon" - because he knows he's shitting on democracy!
#FreeSpeech#TruthWins#TaxMusk#TaxTwitter
FOLLOW UP: Hereβs Sophia Rosing at the University of Kentucky getting arrested after assaulting a Black student working at the desk and saying the N word for 10 minutes straight β for those who wanted to see her in cuffs. (Like we did)
Herschel said he read that people who received student loan forgiveness took the money and βwere out there buying video games, they were going on vacation, they was gambling, they were drinking booze.β
ππ°π· So for what reason would a billionaire car dealer, who now happens to own a big, formerly social medium, endorse the congressional lobby of America's richest, tax-evading 1%?
#DefendDemocracy#FreeSpeech#FairTaxation#FuckMusk