Re:DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon
by pound on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @11:24AM
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Democracy is not in danger, this is exactly what democracy is.
Like it or not but he is quite a telling representative of a big part of the population.
And democracy means majority rules. As simple as that. Consider it in light of 80-20 %% rule.
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Re:DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon
by egypturnash on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @01:41PM
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> And democracy means majority rules. As simple as that.
Popular vote totals:
62,984,825: Trump 65,853,516: Clinton
Vote weights, per state, due to the electoral college: https://theconversation.com/whose-votes-count-the-least-in-t...
Also of course there are things like gerrymandering and voter suppression to consider. Democracy is a pretty complicated mess.
Re:DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon
by gaius on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:16PM
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Oh please give it a rest with the “popular vote” crap. Everyone knew the rules, and the very good reasons behind them. And we all know perfectly well that all this CA outrage would be a complete non-story if the other side had used them.
Re:DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon
by pound on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:01PM
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That's not about democracy per se, that's electoral college/states specifics.
Still democracy in general is exactly "majority rules". In democratic society of 100 people opinion of 51 would be enough to trump and ignore whatever remaining 49 want.