In an American election? Nah, most of those people won't vote, cause that's Vancouver.
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024
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We should correct the failure of the war of 1812 so that Vancouver can vote in American elections.
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.
Yes indeed.
All votes should count as one. Just the idea that the votes of some people values more than others is undemocratic by principle. It's not the winner of the state that should decide as one state may have more people than others. What is democratic and must be placed is the TOTAL of votes is what must count.
We can count can't you?so why do any other way? The only reason one may want otherwise is because he or she thinks he or she may have something to gain with this crooked system
I never really understood the Rick and Morty joke until your comment: https://youtu.be/-ck-NLG_vIA.
It worked out better till England ended the slave trade, the South could just buy more votes whenever there was a concern.
After that they started going crazy and doing weird shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_(U.S._Constitution) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(filibuster) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostend_Manifesto
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.
This doesnt check out because the earth is flat and space isnt real
This guy's already pregaming for the long dark into fascism
Mostmaps people use to make some point, especially some political point, turn out to just be population density maps.
Which is why the overlay in this instance is so troubling.
So what's an actual argument supporting that gerrymandering is more democratic? When I was younger, I natively assumed it was a system decided by some smart people to make it more fair for reasons I don't understand. Now that I'm older, I realize that the smart people know what they're doing but are morally evil and intentionally do this to support corruption.
Yeah.... Anyone interested in this should look up gerrymandering bounderies. :/ we fu'ked.
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.
~~Land~~ People owners were the original voters
FTFY
“Property owners” covers both and is more concise
People are never property
Also that
As a non American from what I understand about the electoral collage is the land has more say.
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.
slightly more weight per vote
Wyoming citizens count three times as much as California citizens
They should go to gym!
Yeah, this meme is backwards if it's supposed to be explaining the electoral college.
It’s also a picture of Vancouver, Canada, so it’s wrong on all levels.
Electoral College: your vote's power = (People / Arbitrarily Defined Land Area) because fuck you, that's why.
Treeson!
Lousy firries
Yup the majority rules.