4 mo. ago • 95%

See This Red Area? This Is Sand

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17777580

Political Memes @lemmy.world See This Red Area? This Is *Sand*

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the only reason republicans win is because you allow your land to vote. it's unbelievable.

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I like to point out that cows don’t vote.

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- The land they're on does though.
  
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- They should.
  
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  I agree, but Earth's solarpunk phase doesn't start for another few millennia. We're still in the era where factory farms still exist.
  
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[Grerrymandering intensifies]

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Frankly both of these maps are deceptive (though the top one is albeit more so). The dot gets colored the primary color in that region, and visually makes the Democrats seem way more dominant when it's much more bipartisan. A gradient would make this map better

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- Yep, each area needs two dots, one red, one blue, sized proportional to their votes.
  
  Florida will get quite a bit bluer, but California and the northeast will get much redder.
  
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- the jpeg makes a lot of the smaller dots look grey too
  
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- Yes, all it takes is small critical details to influence the desired reception of a presentation of data. A goal of a good map or any statistical based representation is not to operate as means of propaganda, but rather by letting the viewer decide the correlation based on making the actual data easy to understand without deceiving in an appealing way.
  
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- Nah, most of it is owned by Bill Gates and a handful of conglomerates.
  
  The people actually living there don't typically control or own much more than the serfs of Imperial Russia. Maybe that's why they love the shirtless guy who wants to be Tsar so much? 🤷
  
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- We are all interdependent
  
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- The majority of the produce for the United States is grown in the Central Valley in California.
  
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  Yeah I don't think how much of the Midwest and South is corn. Corn that we don't even need, that old ag bills that said "the government will buy it even if we don't need it"
  
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- Something something farmers
  
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I don't like sand.

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Counterpoint: the vote is near to 50/50 and neither of those maps look anywhere close to 50/50. Come back when you've got an alternative that looks proportional, not equally bad just the other way.

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- Second map looks 50/50 to me, the red is just more spread out. The needs more jpeg probably doesn’t help
  
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  The other thread has a gif with less jpg
  
  https://lemmy.world/comment/11287470
  
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