The electoral college and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race
"But we need the electoral college so that the states with the most population don't get to enforce their will on the rest!!!!!"
Weirdly enough, you never see these people advocate for giving preferential weight to the votes of black people, trans people, or any other minority population that's actually oppressed
"But we need the electoral college so that the states with the most population don't get to enforce their will on the rest!!!!!"
Oh no, that would be terrible! It would be like some kind of ... Democracy!?!?! 😱
Democrats will talk about the importance of swing states and designing a campaign around them, but they'll never say "actually, this system where only the votes of a few hundred thousand people matter in a country with 150 million voters sucks".
In the mind of some, amount of square km matters more than number of people
there are zero red states either, except oklahoma. so you win, i guess. your prize: oklahoma in 2024.
be sure to collect your winnings (oklahoma) on your way home (to oklahoma) or it (oklahoma) will be towed away at your expense.
There's also Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Hawaii as full blue states and Alaska and West Virginia as full red states. So it's tied.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/2020_Election_Results_Map_by_County.png
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Roughly five: Dave, Susan, Jane, Other Dave, and Indeterminate Dave (only physically manifests on Thursdays during happy hour).
The rest of the allegedly urban population is, in fact, cardboard cutouts.
Guy looking at butterfly: is this modern day countryside-supporting Maoism?
That does really seem to be what they think. That people who live in cities are orcs or something and don't count.
They tend to have completely bizarre perceptions of what city life is like, too. Like I haven't been in any gunfights today and I haven't had to fight off
looters either.I think that's ultimately what this whole stupid map area thing is - whatever demographics they think live in cities, they're saying that those groups of people aren't " real americans" and shouldn't be accorded the rights of citizens.
That's exactly what they think and it's hilarious. People will talk about how "such and such city was burned to the ground and there's roving gangs of Auntie Va roaming the streets getting into shootouts with MS-13." Of course some of them are being disingenuous, but the average normie chud repeating what they see on Fox News is completely detached from reality.
If they want to start of by balkanising the US into this I'm cool with that. I suspect the economy of that red area would be more than halved.
I see 2 blue states, 3 red. Kind of incredible to post this with that line, like, that's a lot of blue
There are literally more fully blue states than there are fully red states on this map..
https://hexbear.net/comment/5439919
It's actually tied.
Alaska, Oklahoma, and West Virginia vs Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
Except for Essex county, the lowest populated county (6,010), even compared to Grand Isle county (7,467)
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And I trust those cities far more than everything else. Not to imply they're ran by the best and brightest, by any means, but that shit sucks a lot less than the gormless fucks running all those red counties
for me its mostly the fact that there's people around. People you can talk to, people you can ignore or just vibe around, people driving and riding public transit, and people who will help you when you need it. Even if rural people were 10x more kind and helpful (and they aren't), there's 100x more people around in a city, so it gets completely counterbalanced by sheer volume
