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> winner take all voting system It was pretty entertaining watching people complain about the electoral college system in the 2016 election. "Why should someo
by 15155 8y ago
> winner take all voting system
It was pretty entertaining watching people complain about the electoral college system in the 2016 election.
"Why should someone in Wyoming have more of a vote than someone in California!?!"
No mention of winner takes all, though: that would enable a certain basket of deplorables in CA to vote (and have it mean something.)
- kolpa 8y agoYou're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. The State of California has passed a law declaring its opposition to "winner take all". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
- smackmybishop 8y agoI'm fascinated to know how you think that's in opposition to "winner take all."
- labster 8y agoJust a note: calling oneself a deplorable makes it very tempting for me to deplore you. It's really weird social signaling: someone says you're a terrible group, and they start calling themselves the terribles as if that somehow proves the original point wrong. I'm more ambivalent about the use of "nasty woman" -- perhaps because I'm blue tribe, but also because the word "nasty" is more ambivalent. It can mean annoying, cruel, promiscuous, or just gross. If it's the last meaning, saying that people have a reflexive negative emotional judgement of you is a far cry from the above, which is a moral judgement.