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  • Most of what you’ve described would inevitably lead to the establishment of a single party totalitarian state.

    Competency tests before you can appear on a ballot, with a commission that reviews the requirements to prevent the exclusion of minorities.

    Don’t like the opposing party? Just make it part of the test. Today, one party could exclude the other by including questions that agree or disagree with critical race theory, voter fraud, etc.

    No elected judges, with stringent training and yearly bias testing. Like a postdoc in judicial impartiality.

    Same issue. Who determines impartiality? The party in power? Single party state.

    Any person who is a position of trust and power who then acts contrary to the ethics of their role can never be elected. Or have power over anyone again.

    Who determines “ethics”? Single party state.

    Children must be free of religion until they are 25.

    What is religion? You’re definitely banning several books, and possibly banning a lot more. Many books can be turned into a religion or contain religious aspects. The party in power decides what’s a religion and what gets banned.

    USA focused: each state gets one senator, plus one per 2 million residents.

    At that point, why have a separate Senate and House? The point of a two-chambered Congress is to balance state and federal power.






  • Disagreeing with general consensus ≠ wrong

    An entire country being contrary just because of national pride and arrogance is completely different.

    Is it your position that all countries should have the same language regardless of their cultural history?

    Also, it isn’t rooted in national pride or arrogance. Aluminum came first and was the name given by the first chemist - a British scientist - to isolate the metal. The variant aluminium came from a reviewer who changed the spelling just because he liked the sound better. Aluminum was recognized by ACS 65 years before IUPAC standardized to aluminum. IUPAC has recognized aluminum as an acceptable spelling since 1993. So yeah, the general concensus is the aluminum is okay even based on your logic because IUPAC says so.







  • I agree with your edit. Those below the poverty line shouldn’t/can’t finance an EV battery. Combustion cars can be purchased for ~$500 and are usually fixable for only a few hundred dollars with enough time and tools. Most engine problems are more expensive in labor than in parts, so almost anyone can fix for cheap with YouTube tutorials. If all else fails, junk yards are full of parts, including engines and transmissions.

    Even if EVs may have better reliability, when it comes time to sell it, someone in poverty can’t afford to buy and fix it. The raw materials in the battery are worth too much, and the batteries don’t last forever.

    People may not have (or have access to) banking, financing, etc and shouldn’t need to finance everything in their life. Financing is like a tax on the poor.

    Hopefully these things change in the future, public transit improves, we make combustion cars cleaner, or batteries get cheaper, but right now it’s the poorest that will be paying most for this environmental crisis.