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Johannes Ernst

One very reasonable thing the Germans did in their post-WWII constitution is to NOT have a mechanism to remove the chancellor, only a mechanism to elect another chancellor in their place. A “constructive” vote of no confidence, instead of a destructive one.

Another exhibit for why that is a better plan: the US House today.

The opportunity to wreck havoc is an attack surface. Why not reduce its size?

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Alessio :linux:

@J12t here in Italy if I recall correctly we have the same thing but an escape hatch to that was found using “technical governments”. A real shame for a nation that calls itself a democracy

Johannes Ernst

@dottorblaster maybe the Italians and the Germans talked at the time, would not surprise me, they were in similar situations then … but then, German innovativeness and Italian innovativeness proceeded in different directions again it seems :-)

Alessio :linux:

@J12t yeah I guess we have to take into account that italians secretly (not so much tho) believe that Mussolini teaming up with Hitler was like his only mistake or something like that

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