• TheseusNow@lemmy.zip
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          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.

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

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

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          2 months ago

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

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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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          Do you understand why I made my comment in the context of the post?

          Really annoying to be “corrected” by people ignoring how context works.