Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by triceratops on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:07PM
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> The electoral college actually favored Biden this time
I think we're operating on different definitions of "favored". The definition I'm using (and which most of the English-speaking world uses) is "have a fundamental advantage". He won the electoral college narrowly. He won the popular vote handsomely. That's a sign of a thumb on the scale in a pretty fundamental way.
Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by nostromo on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:11PM
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> He won the electoral college narrowly. He won the popular vote handsomely.
He didn't though. He won 57% of the electoral vote and 51% of the popular vote.
Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by triceratops on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:14PM
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Another way of looking at it though, is he won the electoral college by a margin of 40k votes (the margin of victory in the states that mattered). He won the popular vote by a margin of 7m votes.
Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by gowld on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:20PM
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You're a pretty famous person, so we know you are smart enough to know that nothing above 50% matters.
"Favor" only matters to extent it helps a candidate get over 270 EV.
Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by triceratops on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:21PM
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Sorry, you're saying the US should be more like the EU?
This is all pointless anyway for a union of states. Germany is underpowered compared to Luxembourg in the EU by design -- the same is true in the US. Should California ever go back to being conservative, as it was until Clinton, it will disadvantage Republicans just the same.