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[NEWS] Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) calls for Annoying Orange's impeachment on House floor
HellHound:
thank god killary clinton didn't become president. there would be a genocide of us superior, conservative beings, no doubt.
MoltenKitten:
--- Quote from: Rainzx¹ on May 17, 2017, 07:32:43 PM ---I still don't understand what benefits having an electoral college brings us.
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Notice where the red and blue is
Dreams_Of_Cheese:
--- Quote from: Rainzx¹ on May 17, 2017, 07:32:43 PM ---I still don't understand what benefits having an electoral college brings us.
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The short of it is that direct democracy is unstable and unfair for the minority. The concept is called "tyranny of the majority" and the idea goes that if a large enough faction can control the government then they will only act in their own interests rather than the interests of others. The electoral college seeks to mitigate the problem by taking population (or rather, direct population) out of the equation so that lower population areas have more equal power to higher population areas.
--- Quote from: MoltenKitten on May 17, 2017, 07:35:33 PM ---Notice where the red and blue is
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what an incredibly unhelpful response. why are you even here if you don't want to have a conversation?
LeisureSuit912:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on May 17, 2017, 07:05:00 PM ---
oops
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As we all know, the US population is divided evenly among all of its counties
Drydess:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on May 17, 2017, 07:05:00 PM ---[img width=700]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/United_States_presidential_election_results_by_county%2C_2016.svg/555px-United_States_presidential_election_results_by_county%2C_2016.svg.png[/img]
oops
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funny how the less educated parts of the country are red