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flandish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

no. we should:

make them not have a connection at all to any trade in stocks
serve a maximum of four years, total, across all “terms”
not allow for legacy ppl to fill in when they leave early
force them to retire at <natl retirement age> here
force them to pay for their own healthcare
and finally: imprison them for life should they be seen taking bribes, materially supporting genocide (including in israel), and breaking any other laws.

tough shit.

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SippyCup@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Not allow them to take a position with any company that may have been affected by a vote they cast.

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Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I don’t agree with max terms, mainly because good leaders are fucking rare and if they want to keep going, it’s to everyone’s benefit. Plus, as Trump is showing, when the really bad ones come along, they’ll challenge the maximum rules anyways and not give a shit about the optics like a good faith leader that feels like they need to answer to their population.

Though maybe each leadership term should end with a trial of some sort, though it would be difficult or impossible to be sure that those trials would be run in good faith rather than the ruling class taking it over to punish leaders that hurt them for the sake of the people.

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- goldfndr@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I agree about good leaders being rare. Instead of max terms, I’d advocate for ineligibility to chair a committee after a certain number of years. Limit that particular incentive to stay.
  
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- flandish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  oh. unlike the constitution, i meant for my rules to be immutable. never again to change without complete dissolution of the government anyway. (which is something i also support, anyway…)
  
  and on the good leaders thing - if a good leader is great, they’ll inspire and consult with the next one and they’ll be happy to because doing it in this way should be considered the highest form of social praxis. and they’d be honored to have done a full term without being jailed for life. after all, if they’re not already a criminal they have nothing to worry about, right, i think thats what they tell us. 😂
  
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  - Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Problem is there’s no such thing as immutable rules unless you’re talking about the laws of physics. Any system only exists because the (sum of the) people in it allow it to exist. Laws only matter because there’s the hard power of force backing the soft power of the courts and branches of government. The unfortunate truth of this reality is that might does indeed make right, not so much in a moral sense but in a “what are you doing to do about it?” sense.
    
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