Re: The Joy Of Democracy

On 2024-10-26, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-10-26 2:21 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-10-25, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-10-25 2:05 p.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-10-25, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-10-25 6:49 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-10-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:03:42 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
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On 2024-10-24 1:35 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:53:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
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If the people in those "large cities" do not receive food, what will
happen to them?

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They won’t be able to make the machines that the farmers use to farm
their crops. There would be no electricity generation or fuel supply,
no manufacturing of farmhouses, no laying of roads for the trucks to
supply feed and fertilizer and seed and take away produce. Nobody to
pay the farmers. Nobody to educate them on how to grow their crops.
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The whole system collapses.

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City people don't have a monopoly on he production of machines.

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Machines, including farming machines, are complicated things. Most of the
modern ones need to be built with the help of other machines. There need
to be support machines for transport (of raw materials, workers, finished
products), fuelling, communications etc. And for keeping track of orders
and shipments and payments and all that. This is why you don’t see big
factories out in the middle of corn fields.

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And these machines that make machines aren't made in the cities. When you
don't what the hell you're talking about, maybe you should just slink away
and lick your wounds.
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Anyway, getting back to the point: why should the value of your vote
depend on where you live? If you believe that all your citizens are
“created equal”, then shouldn’t their votes count equally, too?

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Because it's done on a state by state level and the votes are equal in each
state. And the only reason the Electoral College is not completely equal is
that each state gets two electoral votes, one for each Senator. But many
states have only one or two Electoral votes based on their representation in
the House. So New York has 30 Electoral votes. Vermont, Delaware, Wyoming,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, West Virginia, Rhode Island and New
Hampshire (all together) have 30 votes. That's nine states out 50 who have
the influence in the presidential race as one state, New York. This is your
"outsize" advantage? You're clueless. Stick to what you know. I wouldn't
lecture on the stupidity of the government of New Zealand. Stick your nose
in your own business.
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BTW, you've been told over and over again why the Electoral College is set
up the way it is. Quit droning on like a broken record about it.
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If Trump wins, he'll probalby win both the popular vote and the electoral
vote anyhow. Than what are you going to whine aobut? You don't change the
rules midstream.

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The stupid are no better than children which is probably why they always
have temper tantrums whenever anything political doesn't go their way.
Much like children, they will use strawmen and cheat to get what they
want too.

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They never grew up. They run completely on emotion. Now Trump is supposedly
"Hitler." What next, Stalin and Mousie Dung? Or a three-headed combination
of all of them? Their strident, unhinged bullshit is not helping their
cause.
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I find it amusing (and a bit strange) that both the Los Angeles Times and
the Washington Post have refused to endorse Kamala Harris. Two of the most
Woke newspapers in the country. I don't think Lawrence is going to have to
worry about the popular vote and Electoral College splitting in this
election, unless there is a WHOLE lot of cheating going on.

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It sounds to me like even the stupid publications of the world can't
stomach the Frankenstein they've created and find Harris to embody an
unacceptable level of stupid.

 
I think the motive is more selfish. They have access to internal polls and
they know things aren't going well for Harris. They don't want the blowback.

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I can only hope that those polls are indeed accurate and that this
cretin doesn't get into power. Otherwise, we'll have the local news talk
endlessly about how the retard in the South used to live and study in
Montreal.

If Harris wins, the First Amendment is toast. Basically the whole
Constitution (and Bill of Rights) go down the drain.

She won't win, but they might cheat her into office (like Biden).

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what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien