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Mine has to be the kind of laws that get passed. Where they are titled in such tongue-in-cheek fashions that just slaps you in the face in a metaphorical way. Like how laws such as the Patriot Act and Freedom Act got to be passed the way they are. They sound like they're to uphold the values of what the USA should be about.

However, you take a closer look into the wording and intent of the laws themselves, they are anything but against what those values should be about. We see this all of the time when bills get drafted and they come up with all of these similar-sounding names to pass them with. And there are still people out there who probably believe that there is good intent just by the name alone.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have notes!

That (depending on the country) all politicians continuously lie and that were sort of okay with that. We shouldn't, and at the very first lie they should be called out, hard, and three strikes, you're out

That we have political parties where everyone has to do what the party says. I'd rather have all independent politicians,, vote for those

That many democracies call themselves democracies yet they use the first past the post system and their politica have moved to the point where you wonder if it's still democracy

What companies have such a disproportionate amount of power. Companies should, in the end, exist for the people. The people should ALWAYS go before companies

That politicians can be in charge of something without having the slightest clue what that subject is. You should be an expert in the field to get a field. That also goes for IT, by the way. Fuck, so many politicians are so dumb and tech illiterate yet have to vote about tech.

That the rich still exist. Im fiine with capitalism, it works well to generate wealth which COULD be for everyone but people seem to be okay with the rich and ultra rich? I want to see hard cap limits on personal and company wealth. Anything, income, gifts, whatever, that goes over that limit goes 100% straight to taxes. Below that limit we need 10-20 more brackets, where the lowest incomes pay barely or no taxes at all as they likely can't. The highest will pay on the 90% range and the next bracket is 100.

That politicians (mostly US politicians though, it's a hobby there) can pass laws that are called "protect the children from pedophiles" while when you looked into the law, its "yeah, show us all your chats and the real pedophiles will find other ways to communicate anyways so this won't stop shit, law". Especially the US has a hand of this where almost any law these days has a pretty acronym like S.H.I.E.L.D. or something and in reality, for it's content, it should be names C.H.I.L.D.K.I.L.L.E.R.

That lobbyists are allowed to exist. Yeah, I get it, but no. I think that lobbyists are. Any negative for society as companies abuse the shit out of them. Maybe if companies aren't allowed to have lobbyists, and are limited in size and power, maybe we could allow lobbyists ONLY for foundations that support vulnerable groups or entities

Same for companies, but limit it to 1 billion or so and 1000 employees max. Need more employees for a mega project that requires multiple companies to work together. Instead of one trillion dollar company, I want a million million dollar companies

Then, we don't mix alcohol and wine and tequila, we all know it ends in shit yet somehow most people still think it's okay to mix religion into politics as if that's a great thing. Fuck religions. If you have one, sorry, but you're believing at the level of a 5 year old that Santa is real. Politicians should all be atheist as far as I'm concerned