• Tedesche@lemmy.world
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        23 hours ago

        The electoral college was put in place to prevent people like Trump from being elected, so it’s not even functioning as intended.

      • TheseusNow@lemmy.zip
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        1 day ago

        Exactly, the whole winner take all deal means not a single presidential vote I have made ever meant anything. The majority of electoral votes in my state were for the other party. So my preferred parties electoral votes won magically become the other parties. If they forced states to split electoral votes places like Texas and California would have a much different impact on elections.

      • village604@adultswim.fan
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        1 day ago

        It might feel that way, but gerrymandering is specifically for the House of Representative districts. It has no bearing on the outcome of presidential elections.

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        1 day ago

        That’s not what gerrymandering is, no. Words have meaning.

        Not to defend the electoral college, it should be abolished.

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      It certainly determines how congress sorts war powers. It also determines how they keep legitimate judges out of SCOTUS until the GOP can seat their psychopaths. Gerrymandering has fucked everything. Can’t impeach and then convict. Can’t do shit about fuck. Here we are.

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        1 day ago

        Electing Trump has fucked everything. Dumbass likely Democratic voters who sit out elections ruin everything. People in this country just don’t fucking care.

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      1 day ago

      I have no idea why you’re being downvoted. Gerrymandering is specifically for the House of Representatives and has no bearing on presidential election outcomes.

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        1 day ago

        People think I’m saying gerrymandering is ok, I’m not. I responded in the context of the thread, which is about Trump exclusively.

        I’m being downvoted by people who don’t stop to think before doing so.