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and their votes count more than your city votes!

I can hear their goddamned chants...

Every square yard counts!
Every square yard counts!

When it suits them. That is basically how it does work, to their benefit. If it benefitted Democrats, well then... "that's entirely different, see?", they'd be screaming to high heaven at the "unfair librul conspiracy to take over the government!"

Yep. Thanks slavery! A great idea that just keeps givin’

I hate that.

¡VIVA LA PROLETARIAT! DEATH TO THE RICH!

I don't think it is relevant.

The xkcd points out distribution and population.

The second map highlights how much more democratic the us is than republican and that is it obviously a broken system that republican's have a chance of winning

My favorite thing to do with these people is to ask them "okay, would it be alright if these issues were decided on a per-county basis then?", if they say no they've outed themselves as just wanting to hold as much control over others as possible from a minority position, if they say yes ask again but with individual towns, if they say yes to that, then you narrow it down to individual people, then they tend to get mad when they realize what you've done

Yep. There are currently three heavy biases favoring the rural population. -senate (by design) -the house --not by design, but because the representation was capped at 435. It hasn't grown with population and thus a citizen in Wyoming gets more representation than a citizen in California (or Texas for that matter) -the presidency by virtue of the above two being biased.

Fix house apportionment, let the Senate be the safeguard, and the presidency will have a very slight protection by nature of the electors via what matches the Senate.

This is all in line with the framing of the Constitution, but it gives up power to "the bad guys" (aka the actual majority)

let the Red ones rot in their ancap dystopias?

Because there will be a lot of people in those areas who are not happy living under an ancap dystopia. Those states may even try to trap them there like Texas wants to do.

Imagine a couple moved to one of these ancap dystopias and have a kid. That kid turns out to be a big leftist and they hate not having rights.

We can't just forget about the other states and only care about some. At that point, you can consider the United States to have fallen.

Why don’t the Blue states just enact social democratic policies and let the Red ones rot in their ancap dystopias?

Because the red states have outsized influence over federal law, and they can outlaw the social democratic policies at a national level.

gasp Are you suggesting, good sir, that republiQans may in fact not be arguing a particular point in good faith???

NO! I cannot believe it.

Why would a popular video game character get his own spot on this map?

I’ll allow it.

**Land SHOULDN'T vote.

Abolish the senate.

Especially Google maps, they persuaded my friend to turn right and now he thinks corporations are people.

That’s often how it gets portrayed, yes.

As others have said, yes it is. Unfortunately it's also a strong representation of how the voting process operates in the US. At the local level (towns and cities), individual votes matter. However, for something like the presidential election (for example), then the votes are averaged by county and state.

So what happens is everyone from a county votes, and if that county is more of one side than the other, that entire county is "voting x/y". Then the counties across the state are compared, and that state is declared as "voting" for either side. Then nationally, each state is counted as either/or, so even if the more populated cities vote one way, if enough of the rural population votes the other way, the rural side wins, and the urban side loses.

It's almost as if the system urgently needs reform. Too bad the powers in charge of that were elected specifically because of it.

I loved finding this out from a random comment on Lemmy. The interweb’s still got it!

It’s the same reason all around the world: India, China, Australia, Venezuela, Romania, Kenya: Hicks.

Hicks are everywhere. And they vote for regressive authoritarians for any number of reasons, most of them wrong.

They are probably coloring whole counties, where the second map just makes a dot for each country proportional to population.

Probably because 40 out of the 50 voters in those counties voted red.