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Re:Donald Trump could dismantle net neutrality by FilterSweep on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:24PM (#13038274)
> The lesson that a lot of anti-Trumpers appear to have taken away from this election is that the electoral college is bad because it lets people who don't live on the coasts have a say too.

The sarcasm in your post is, funnily enough, the opposite of the truth because they actually have MORE say than people living in coastal cities[0]

Not only that, but as populations in major cities increase, and number of electoral votes stay the same, this effect increases [1]

[0] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_w...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/11/1...

(Ed: fixed AMP link)

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Re:Donald Trump could dismantle net neutrality by ci5er on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:38PM (#13038384)
> The sarcasm in your post is, funnily enough, the opposite of the truth

Isn't that one of the primary mechanisms of sarcasm?

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Re:Donald Trump could dismantle net neutrality by FilterSweep on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:42PM (#13038417)
The "direction" Of the sarcasm is the gist of my reply. My perception was that the parent was mocking the coastal people for complaining that other citizens have a voice. I replied that ironically non-coastal state citizens have more of a voice than coastal people (Ed: grammar)
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