Larger population means larger representation. If you say the Netherlands only has about 100,000 idiots, that's roughly half a percent of their population.
Half of a percent of the US population is over 1.5 million. And I promise you, we have a waaaaaaay higher percentage of idiots than that.
That or military districts. It doesn't matter though, the Republicans had enough votes to pass it on their own. These Dems are, exactly as you say, just playing it safe at home.
They'd name it Microsoft Windows Deprecation Maker 2024 Enterprise 11 though.
This is Lemmy.
If you want to do all that performative reddit bullshit for attention, go back there and do it. No one will stop you.
This is some text book projection. Maybe talk to a professional about it. And yeah, you probably should stay away from cartoons and kids until you get these repressed urges figured out.
Yestsin won with 58 and 54 percent of the vote in his two elections, hardly a 'landslide':
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Russian_presidential_election
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election
Putin's lowest was 53, in his first election. The latest was 88%, with most of the others being in the 70% range.
Historically though, Russians, have a way of guaranteeing results like that. Yeltsin is kind of a low percentage outlier by comparison:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Soviet_Union_legislative_electionr
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Soviet_Union_legislative_election
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Soviet_Union_legislative_election
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/18/1196979929/in-unsurprising-result-putin-is-reelected
woah, who the fuck is talking about kids?
Some of the oldest porn is cartoons scratched into rocks, get off your golden age of porn high horse, or get off with it if that's your thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_erotic_depictions
Ukraine feeds a lot of the world, and it's in everyone's best interest that it keeps doing that.
I'm pretty sure Yeltsin is the reason Russia has Putin.
Yeltsin oversaw the dissolution of the ussr and brought capitalism to Russia, of course the west wanted him to be president of Russia. All he did was ask Bill for favors on the world stage (and got most of what he asked for).
if you're actually interested, even the considerable powers granted in a state of emergency are defined by laws passed by Congress:
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/guide-emergency-powers-and-their-use
Maybe if he forgets half the shit he's said that directly contradicts the other half, and doesn't try to nuke a hurricane over Mexico.