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    9 months ago

    The unfortunate truth is, all that doesn’t matter if the Electoral College utterly fails at its ONE job yet again and picks the loser. Republicans will userp power wether we want them to or not if that happens. They need to be treated as the enemies of the state they are, or else we’re fucked.

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      all that doesn’t matter if the Electoral College utterly fails succeeds at its ONE job yet again and picks the loser.

      FTFY

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        9 months ago

        They’re supposed to protect from terrible leaders, not simply to pick the loser. Electing Trump was the perfect demonstration of how the entire concept is utterly and completely flawed.

        He should’ve been able to win the popular vote and still should have been ignored by the Electoral College. Instead, the exact opposite happened. They’re worse than useless.

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          9 months ago

          The electoral college exists to subvert the popular vote whenever the choice of the rural minority is behind. It would have no reason to exist otherwise. It has no duty to “ignore” any outcome and nothing to do with the quality of leadership besides their ability to campaign to low density populations.

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            9 months ago

            Yea, it’s effectively a tool of disenfranchisement, but the point is it was pitched as a safety mechanism from the “dumb plebs”, yet it has done the exact opposite.

            It wasn’t the plebs that put Trump in office. The point I’m making is it literally has zero upsides.

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              9 months ago

              The point I’m making is it literally has zero upsides.

              Then we’re literally making the same point. There is no reason to argue here.

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                  9 months ago

                  That’s funny, I thought the same thing about you. I just didn’t feel the need to shit on you for it.

                  Is this the argument you wanted? Are we supposed to be getting something out of this?

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                    You’re making a claim from an offensive perspective. Anyone who doesn’t ALREADY agree with your premise is just going to fight you on calling the idea a plan of disenfranchisement.

                    You have to CONVINCE someone you’re right, not just declare it so… You use bad arguments for people who do not already agree with you. Now grow the fuck up and take criticism like an adult.