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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 02:55:27 JST Paul Cantrell

   • Jess👾

   @JessTheUnstill
   [rageful agreement]

   My pet idea (which is more self-soothing than realistic solution, but hey, I figure talking about it helps open the discourage) is to switch over to a Popular Filibuster: instead of the existing threshold, allow Senators representing 50% ••of the population• to block a bill. This provides for some of the double-checking and slow deliberation people claim to like about the filibuster, while also helping to safeguard against minority rule.

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     Corax (corax42@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 03:12:25 JST Corax

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     • Jess👾

     @inthehands @JessTheUnstill The Council of the European Union (very roughly our analogue to the US Senate) has adopted a similar scheme:

     Passing a bill by Qualified Majority requires that the supporting Council members represent 55% of the member states, and 65% of the population.

     (The original proposal called for >50% of the member states and >50% of the population, but that was watered down as it would have given too much of an advantage to the bigger countries)

     https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/voting-system/qualified-majority/