• @tootoughtoremember
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    In an American election? Nah, most of those people won’t vote, cause that’s Vancouver.

    • @[email protected]
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      We should correct the failure of the war of 1812 so that Vancouver can vote in American elections.

  • @Roopappy
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    Anytime you see a map of the US with “preference by county”, go ahead and pull up a map of the US at night from space next to it.

    You’ll see that once choice is generally where electricity is, and the other choice is where it’s dark.

    • @[email protected]
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      Mostmaps people use to make some point, especially some political point, turn out to just be population density maps.

      • @kautau
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        This guy’s already pregaming for the long dark into fascism

  • @InverseParallax
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    https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0065

    I paste this everywhere because the narrative of lies has been ubiquitous:

    There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.

    This was James Madison, ie the guy who came up with it. It exists to launder slave votes through their owners, nothing more. It’s not about land, it’s just about the south using the votes of people they don’t let vote.

  • @Z3k3
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    As a non American from what I understand about the electoral collage is the land has more say.

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      Kind of?

      The electoral college is no longer functioning as designed, and so voters in certain less populated areas have slightly more weight per vote than those in heavily populated areas. Only because the number of districts was artificially capped. So some districts have more people than several states do.

      States also get two bonus votes for some reason.

      The argument was that if someone posed a genuine threat to democracy and had a chance at winning the popular vote, the delegates could step in and vote for someone else.

      A consequence of that, is that exactly the opposite can happen too.

      • @RustyEarthfire
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        slightly more weight per vote

        Wyoming citizens count three times as much as California citizens

    • Drusas
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      Yeah, this meme is backwards if it’s supposed to be explaining the electoral college.

  • @PunnyName
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    Land owners were the original voters.

    The rest of us plebes didn’t know what to do with such capital, so we had to yield to their “superior” vote.

    This is why the right to vote has been such a constant fight across the centuries.

  • @_stranger_
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    Electoral College: your vote’s power = (People / Arbitrarily Defined Land Area) because fuck you, that’s why.