"Trump, I think that dictator is an imperialist! His Siberia is colonised, his Chechnya is colonised, and I'm pretty sure that Belarus is colonised!"
"A dictator who has lots of colonies is less likely to invade countries than a dictator whose colony supplies are low"
States are fairly arbitrary divisions of land and I don't think they need representation separate from the representation their people have.
They're both problems.
Never heard of it. It's difficult to know how much of the difference is the actual occurrence and how much is the reporting of it.
And that becomes a vicious circle as more children are driven to school, making it more dangerous to walk, so more are driven...
That's more complicated than it sounds. An export strengthening the currency is a significant part of Dutch Disease.
Don't all countries have this problem?
Ranked choice for presidency, proportional for congress (and the senate if that's worth having exist at all).
How do you stop a majority of the electoral college from completely trouncing the concerns of the other states?
It's in the last line of their comment:
But I also get worried that sometimes communies attack their closest allies for being imperfect harder than enemies actively working against their interests.
Heard an interview a while ago with a founder of Just Stop Oil who clearly said he doesn't care whether they even stop climate change (around 40:00-43:00).
It's famous, so attacking it gets attention.