4 mo. ago • 78%

Trump was 3 counties, not 7 million votes, from beating Biden in 2020

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If we remove just 1 county from each state, Trump would have won.

Yeah, the more people you disenfranchise, the easier it is for fascists to gain power. That being said, this is sort of like saying, "The USA would be Republican if it weren't for New York and California!"

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- Guess you can do the same exercise with Hilary Clinton in the 2016 election. Select some key counties and turn on the election. Pretty stupid exercise, for a pretty stupid election system.
  
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  When I first saw the blog post title, I assumed 2016 was where this was headed. Alas, my mind is tired of hearing of equality when there are people sleeping on the sidewalk and when swing-state and small-state Americans get an outsize role in running the place.
  
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Sheesh folks it’s not like I like this system or that man or his opponent or that the electoral college laughs last or that the popular vote win was pretty big but could have easily been undone again.

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- How DARE you.
  
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- This is cool, and I love you ❤️
  
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Cant go showing this is might give people the idea that their vote matters and to show up and exercise their rights. Or perhaps u could do what us Aussies have done and have mandatory voting i would argue its the greatest thing we have done for democracy.

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- How's that working out for you? Been getting good politicians?
  
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  Well we got universal healthcare a livable minimum wage public housing world class education and enough beaches that you would die before u visit them all assuming u see 1 every single day. Id say its working far better than ur system that seems to resemble a 3rd would country more every day.
  
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This is incredibly important to keep in mind as we enter election season, if you have the means please donate to on the ground campaigns in these or similar areas. Every bit helps

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Damn I live in one of these. You guys are welcome

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- I live in a county that will let me protest vote Biden in 2024 with literally zero risk
  
  The lefty dream?
  
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Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia.

Isn't that where all the fake electors came from and where TheOrange wanted to find just 11,780 votes?

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Yeah, like. There it is.

Sometimes I wish we had county level polling days, other-times, i'm glad we can't analyze things this granularly.

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- You can still analyze this having a normal election system where the candidate with more votes win.
  
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  I mean check my post history
  
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- Now what if we went even more granular all the way down to the individual? Like, each person is their own electoral college vote?
  
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conflation

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