The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter: For real though it sucks that Britain, a damp rock the size of one of my city's medium sized parks, has a legislature with more representatives than the United States. We deserve better.

For real though it sucks that Britain, a damp rock the size of one of my city's medium sized parks, has a legislature with more representatives than the United States. We deserve better.

No but I love when all you beautiful sickos start posting shit like "Bogroubler flips Hambarn upon Gwynyychlyyrah! A huge result!" It's like hanging out with people being poisoned by carbon monoxide. None of those places are real

We should have 1 rep for every 250,000 people, which would place us in between Mexico and Japan. (This would be 1340 representatives in the House)

List of legislatures by number of members - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

My favorite thing from 2020 was the DNC video showing the nominating delegates from all 50 states voting remotely, you really got to see the breadth of the country

lmao meanwhile India has 1 lower house rep/2.6M people 😭

@fivefourpod.bsky.social had a great comment on that in their episode about constitutional amendments that failed, where they pointed out that the amendment capping House district population would mean a couple thousand House Reps... which means none of us would ever need to know or care who MTG is.

Call your representatives and push for the repeal of the Permanent Apportionment Act. The US *needs* better, and that change can be done without a constitutional amendment.

In British cozy mysteries people are always meeting with their legislator to demand speed bumps. My CD is three-quarters of a million people. To my knowledgeI haven’t had a rep hold a Town Hall since 2017.

Hey, how dare you, we're a damp *windy* rock.

We need like 1,503 House Reps, not 435.

This would mean lager states get more reps and we can't have that

It's a given at this point that representation given to the ale states is obscenely out of proportion

Look don't take my typo and porter it into your own narrative

Would also mostly fix the electoral college problem

"Damp rock" 😂 We've come a long way since the "British Empire" times . Love it.

Even my quick and dirty answer to how to keep Congressional apportionment fair (divide each state's population by the population of the smallest state, then round to the nearest whole number) doesn't get us to the size of the Commons.

for those of you on Mastodon, vote in my poll about what the ideal size for the US House of Reps should be: social.treehouse.systems/@egallager/1...

Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!) (@[email protected])social.treehouse.systems #MastodonPoll: What is your ideal size for the U.S. House of Representatives? #ExpandTheHouse [ ] 435 (current size) [ ] 543 (Wyoming Rule) [ ] 650 (UK House of Commons) [ ] 690 (Cube Root Rule, simp...

Fix it to cube root

House should be 2k seats and the senate should be abolished

It doesn’t matter, and UK is no better. This country is carved into two halves of equal size. Each side intransigent enough to vote for, currently, a sadist or a corpse.

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