I HATE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
I HATE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
CUBA HAS BETTER REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY THAN THE COUNTRY THAT CLAIMS IT INVENTED DEMOCRACY, HANKWithout the electoral college it’s tyranny of the majority. It’s much better that elections get decided based on where a bad batch of condoms got shipped 25 years ago.
Solution: getting rid of the electoral college AND the FPTP system.
It’s like the old saying goes, a census form is worth 8,962 ballots
Idk if this is true or not but it is extremely funny. This is definitely a very real and functional democracy.
According to some old rich slaveowners who enjoyed SV with their slaves, “tyranny of the majority” was scary and bad therefore remote locations should have people that matter more than everyone else.
Can you believe I actually know someone in real life who is a sincere ‘land area should = vote proportionality’ guy?
I lived just outside of Silicon Valley for a time so I knew lots of scratched liberals like that. “Fiscally conservative, socially liberal” conservatives in denial that didn’t want to be associated with the GOP because they liked to microdose and LARP as cool scenesters sex pesting around town when they weren’t code-broing for their corporate masters.
In that moment, I was just so dumbfounded as I listened to this person explain to me how, like, Nebraska should get more electoral votes than New York and pointing out to me how there was so much more red area on the map than blue, and how that oughta count for something.
Settler brain. Not even once.
The number of wealthy tech dudes who are guarded about their politics so they don’t get kicked out of the polycule: likely too many
I’d be more than fine with cuddle parties if actual predators like
didn’t openly admit that they went to those to drug people unawares and then do SV with them while under the influence.I basically don’t go to any of the events, just everyone I seem to meet is a neurodivergent polyamorous person of some sort. I did go to a few a couple of years ago, just wasn’t my crowd (except for the occasional new person who also went for the same reason). I tend to be very 1-1 with my partners
Yes I’ve met lots of those people
Bit idea: land area = more electoral votes and then all of us on Hexbear move to Alaska and declare it the successor state of the CCCP.
fake ass country
I had a lib in a “far left” Discord server refer to the electoral college as a “lesser known” aspect of US elections and explained it in depth as if no one knew about it. I told him about the Alabama Paradox and he said that’s why we needed to vote for Kamala even harder.
if we make the rules complicated enough, then it’s not our fault when the system grinds children into a paste
This assumes NC and NV don’t go Democrat which I’ll believe when I see it.
Kraz, actually New York would have gotten that congressional seat. This means it would still be 270-268!
So many people here just don’t understand how elections work
I think that’s complete bullshit. A different population means earlier rounds of apportionment will go different, not just that one round. Which means you can’t calculate the population difference for losing a seat within a single round of apportionment.
By my guessing and checking, MN loses a seat at 864 less population, not 26. As others have pointed out, it would lose that seat to NY, so no electoral difference in that map.
If aliens invaded and were made from Bismuth, its likely that the current administration would see an electoral boost unless it was full of compradors or something.
