Re: The Joy Of Democracy

On 22 Oct 2024 07:10:21 GMT, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:43:15 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 21:37:36 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

Even the dumbest citizen knows that it wouldn't make sense for the
presidency to be decided by the metropolises of the country ...

 
I’ve heard that nonsense from countless supporters of the
Dumbfuckistani voting system, and I still don’t understand it.
 
Don’t you take it as “self-evident” that all your people are created
equal? If so, why shouldn’t their votes count equally too?

 
Never forget that even when that document was written so pigs were a lot
more equal than others. 3/5 in fact.

I know. The “three-fifths compromise” was so that the slave-owning states
could have their slave population count towards their votes for the
President, without the slaves having the actual vote themselves. That’s
why the Electoral College exists -- it’s a holdover from the slavery era
that has long passed its dump-by date.

Most of the rest of the document is a list of grievances against the
king of Great Britain.

And don’t forget the fact that the Brits were already making the first
moves towards recognizing black folk as actual human beings. Abolishing
slavery was just a few decades away.