• magnetosphere
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    99 months ago

    That would be true if we didn’t have an electoral college. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.

    • @[email protected]
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      69 months ago

      Yikes why would defend someone who sung the praises of noted War Criminal Henry Kissinger?

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        The alternative was worse. Most Presidential elections aren’t about picking the candidate you want - they boil down to who you dislike less.

        Besides, I wasn’t “defending” anyone; I was simply pointing out a fact.

        • @danekrae
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          The hours everybody spends in supermarkets, picking out the things they don’t want to buy, so they’re only left with what they want… But the alternative is worse…

    • @chillhelm
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      They both approximate perfect representation close enough. If the difference between one government or the other comes down to variations that are basically explained by the weather being good or bad on voting day, you can’t really claim that the government isn’t representative.

      Just because it didn’t represent YOUR opinion, it doesn’t make it less representative. A truly representative government will make decisions that align with 10% of the population 10% of the time. So if 10% of the population want to bomb Canada a perfectly representative government will make it happen every 40 years or so.