#twothirds

[agreed-upon-solutions]

We were out and about in the recent 50501 protests, handing out Twothirds Platform zines! If you'd like to print one out yourself, here are the images:

The information is sourced from national polling, based on our ranking of the top 500 most important to discuss topics. You can download the raw data at Agreed Upon Solutions - we'd love to see people use it!

[kyleemclauren]

There needs to be a voting-based check on the power of the supreme court. They’re currently totally unaccountable dictators, and all branches of our government need to be under the ultimate control of the voters. We can't be expected to pass a constitutional amendment every single time they rule something insane.

[agreed-upon-solutions]

There is no system whatsoever to ensure accountability to the people in the United States!

You may want to check out Agreed Upon Solutions - It is our proposal for exactly how government should work instead. It is fully implemented and you can try it out as much as you want.

You are given a ballot on literally Every Thing, and voting is done to determine policies with high consensus. We perform clustering to divide votes into two "parties", Up and Down, then require the 95% confidence interval on a balanced-representation vote to be above a supermajority opinion threshold (twothirds).

Anything that meets this standard should be a bounding guideline for policy, anything that does not can be delegated to representatives. This leaves room for leaders to make complex or unpopular decisions, without ever sacrificing democratic accountability.

The twothirds system is designed to work alongside any government, as a way of providing sanity and guard rails. If anyone has a better system, we'd love to hear it.

Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.

[two-thirds]

72% of Americans believe there should be more government regulation of what companies can do with their customer's personal information.

Twothirds Is Enough!

[two-thirds]

Nice

[dr-gaytorius]

Some things never change

[agreed-upon-solutions]

[two-thirds]

I actually use "members of congress should not be allowed to trade stocks" as my most obvious example of a pre-existing twothirds. It consistently has 90+% approval ratings when polled.

It's up there with "we should have sanitation workers", which is my normal example of something everyone agrees on that might randomly become a target for political terrorists.

"Uber drivers should have to display id in their windows, like taxi drivers" is our example of a nontrivial twothirds, which comes from a case study.

Examples might be rare, but we can solicit a *lot* of suggestions, a useful list is pretty much guaranteed to exist. The fact that I can list items from it means that writing a bunch of these down and presenting it all at once could be a crazy useful list for a baseline political platform. Just saying.

Twothirds Is Enough.

[kyleemclauren]

Can we please just do direct democracy? Please? I don't ever want to vote on another candidate again, I just want to be able to express my opinions directly at the polls. I just want to vote on laws and policies myself.

Imagine you go into the voting booth and get to have a say on hundreds or thousands of proposals, allowing you to express exactly what you wanted in full detail. You get to vote on *everything* - Israel vs Palestine, KOSA, police funding, NASA funding, abortion, queer rights, school policies - everything. We could put every supreme court decision on the national ballot. We wouldn't have to ever think about any of these people ever again.

Imagine if there was an easy way for citizens to propose laws. Not like, the staggeringly difficult slog of managing hundreds of people collecting signatures, but a government agency that did research into how popular citizen proposed initiates were, and made recommendations to get them passed into law.

We need to be talking about constitutional convention level solutions to our problems. The parties will never learn.

[offjumpoladulkittiporn]

twothird reunion 🥰

[toycoheartful]

Khan Chinchilla is a Chinchilla PawPant - Who want to be hunting to shoots Ducks, Mallards, Rabbits, Lions, Lionesses, Rhinoceros, Bears, Snakes, Pythons, Anacondas and More Animals and even Law-bots and He getting likely to Bruce Stone

Name: Khan Chinchilla (Chinchilla de Khan)

Species: Chinchilla PawPant

Sexually: Bisexual

Sex: Male

Power: His gun-hand to shoots Law-bot and other people

Friends: Rabbidbot "Toyco" White-Rabbit, Felipe White-Rabbit & Bruce Stone

Rival: Acanthus Cape Vulture

Theme Song: Hunted by Priority One, TwoThirds & Jonny Rose

How does Khan Chinchilla are the name of Khan like "Khan Doorman?"

[kyleemclauren]

Yeah, we should all vote out Clarence Thomas.

If I see any of you posting shit about not voting, in the year of Clarence Thomas saying we should revisit Marriage Equality and little girls being banned from school sports for having short hair, know that I WILL eat you first when we're in the Mad Max Fury Road level of planet fuckery.

[two-thirds]

Voters believe former presidents should not have immunity from criminal prosecution for their official acts.

Twothirds is enough!

[radiohart]

ngl i think the top half-twothirds of my maslow pyramid is just novelty. i can endure anything until i get bored. and then i die badly