Do justify I dont live in the land of freedomsOriginally Posted by Spinach
Do justify I dont live in the land of freedoms
My school is offering a counseling session of sorts for those "whose emotions are affected by the vitriol of this election"
It's rather remarkable, and yet doesn't surprise me at all.
As an outsider, i just didn't think too hot about those two, so if one won at least the friction against Russian isn't going to be a problem.
Off we go, into the wild blue yonder, where the F-35 and PAK FA shall never meet.
Did she win this or lose this I'm getting conflicting info from multiple people
Right now she's up by 200k ish. That is not final but it's hard to imagine it'll start changing much now.
She won more votes but lost the election. The electoral college is what determines the winner.
He never sleeps. He never dies.
Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.
It's almost like the EC isn't democratic.
No as in earlier in the day someone told me Trump won both electoral and majority
Ah
Yeah, they were wrong.
He was ahead at one point, but in the end isn't.
What America needs is to abolish the Electoral College and establish something like Preferential Voting so that people can vote for their favorite candidate (3rd-party or otherwise) without fear of unintentionally putting someone they don't want in office.
burn your dread you coward
Are there people clamoring to retain the EC
I imagine Donald Trump is a fan
well I meant aside from republicans that only won against the vote of the people because of the ofc
I've had discussions with several people who like the Electoral College as it is because it gives voting power to the small states.
burn your dread you coward
An amount of power greater than what some of them should have if we're dividing them up proportionally yes
Don't remember how the reasoning went in my Civics class.
This feels bad
That was the point of it.
He never sleeps. He never dies.
Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.
The big problem I have with it is that each state election is winner-take-all, so if one wins the state with 51% of the votes they take all of that state's votes. This is a problem because it defeats the supposed purpose of protecting the small states. All the EC ends up really doing is protecting the swing states.
Also the 1-vote-winner-take-all system removes the possibility of seriously considering 3rd-parties because people will be more worried in preventing someone they dislike from reaching the office rather than just voting on someone they like. This year was a bit different because given the godawful candidates we had people voted 3rd-party out of protest, but depending on their beliefs they could have put the candidate they disliked the most in office.
burn your dread you coward
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