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Originally Posted by RainMaker
One of the issues is a minority of people control the country. As long as we have undemocratic systems like the Senate and Electoral College, this will always be an issue. And that's not even talking about the dumb filibuster rule.
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Wait, what? We can all hate on how the Senate demographics favors the Republican Party if you hate Republicans, but we're here because politicians pander to idiots. Direct elections or voting on issues would probably be worse, and I've thought for years now the answer is moar f*cking elitism. YMMV.
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Originally Posted by Atocep
Because every now and then he has to remind everyone he's smarter than they are. He was a reddit hero, of sorts, until there were far too many first hand accounts of how much of a jackass he really is to ignore.
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My dad is ok at the astrophysicism thing, NDT was apparently over for a cocktail party or two before I was old enough to care, and my parents throw shade at him for being a dilettante who never discovered anything and "just takes ideas real scientists talk about and articulates them well for the masses", but he's a try hard blowhard not a jackass. The #MeToo allegations against him were ridiculous, and despite "the real scientists" reservations, yeah a guy who can communicate ideas effectively to the general public is pretty valuable. Sometimes like this he does feel himself and it's basically a heat check I guess.
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Originally Posted by polamalu43
And it seems as though Republicans will be leaning on the Electoral College more heavily than ever before. If you actively try to make your small state as bad a place to live as possible for anyone who's not a rich, old white person (e.g. by continuing to cut education funding or rejecting Medicaid expansion from a healthcare plan that was first proposed by a Republican governor for no reason other than to try to sabotage the first black president, which has caused at least 15,000 preventable deaths nationwide) that's a pretty easy way to make your state's electorate more solidly Republican.
People will either die or move away order to have some chance at education or health care or just to not be as overtly discriminated against, and when they do that their vote doesn't count for as much and you can accuse people who vote for Democrats of living in a liberal bubble (make sure to show off that electoral map where more of the land area is red for extra 'trolling the libs' points!). And then of course on top of all that you've got extreme gerrymandering, purging voter rolls, racist voter ID laws, and partisan administration of the census in an attempt to tip the scales even further. |
Man, these Russian bots are getting more specific.
