“Trump’s policies are not good for American businesses or high income earners. His policies are for the specific benefit of his inner circle – which just happens to include America’s foreign adversaries.”
“Trump’s policies are not good for American businesses or high income earners. His policies are for the specific benefit of his inner circle – which just happens to include America’s foreign adversaries.”
“The American electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going “Haha! Oops!" every two to four years. This process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time.”
– Patrick Cosmos, lawyer and perplexed election observer
I've tried arguing with some of them with simple facts but they deny anything to be true that doesn't fit their worldview. They've even created a propaganda bot called DogeAi to feed their prejudices now since Grok was owning them with facts and figures.
The Electoral college is DEI for nobody except the lowest populated states and swing states. I know this is a popular liberal talking point but it's also not true and not helpful. The senate is that, especially for overwhelmingly white rural states BY DESIGN.
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“Trump’s policies are not good for American businesses or high income earners. His policies are for the specific benefit of his inner circle – which just happens to include America’s foreign adversaries.”
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The Electoral College is DEI for Red States.
https://marginaliamagazine.com/the-electoral-college-is-d-e-i-for-red-states/
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“The American electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going “Haha! Oops!" every two to four years. This process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time.”
– Patrick Cosmos, lawyer and perplexed election observer
Yeah, and add that many of those Americans are operating on prejudices and things they know are true that are false. Where did you see these quotes?
The latter was re-quoted by Carl Quintanilla on BlueSky. Added a link to the second.
I've tried arguing with some of them with simple facts but they deny anything to be true that doesn't fit their worldview. They've even created a propaganda bot called DogeAi to feed their prejudices now since Grok was owning them with facts and figures.
https://usafacts.org/visualizations/electoral-college-states-representation/
The Electoral college is DEI for nobody except the lowest populated states and swing states. I know this is a popular liberal talking point but it's also not true and not helpful. The senate is that, especially for overwhelmingly white rural states BY DESIGN.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/when-adding-new-states-helped-republicans/598243/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/us-senate-bias-white-rural-voters/