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Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by teiferer on Friday October 24, 2025 @07:34AM (#45693536)
> For the other half the country, we really don't want to Federal laws to be decided by people in other states that don't share the same values.

Do you reject majority votes in general or do you merely propose explicit minority protections for non-urban communities?

Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by mlrtime on Friday October 24, 2025 @08:19AM (#45693885)
That is way to general of a question, I'm speaking of the system of government in America, a republic democracy, United States.

If whatever city/state you live in wants to have majority-vote for all issues, please go do it.

Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by unethical_ban on Friday October 24, 2025 @09:01AM (#45694179)
Well, your defense of the status quo states that rural voters inherently deserve more voting power than urban voters for all decisions.
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by teiferer on Friday October 24, 2025 @12:36PM (#45696311)
Sure. I was asking about you personally, in your particular situation. Whether you don't agree with majority votes overall, or whether your are fine with them but want a minority protection for this specific case.
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by belorn on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:22PM (#45697558)
Looking from a EU perspective, majority votes based on population is quite bad and would result in the european union to not be a union since the low population countries would leave. Germany and France would gain even more power than they have now, so giving smaller countries a small boost in relative power is part of what encourage them to be there.
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by lenkite on Saturday October 25, 2025 @05:05AM (#45702382)
> Do you reject majority votes in general or do you merely propose explicit minority protections for non-urban communities?

Does your system of voting include anyone who just comes in or is restricted to only citizens with verified ID ? If the latter, then majority voting is completely fine.

Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by teiferer on Saturday October 25, 2025 @01:09PM (#45705397)
What does a verified ID have to do with values?

The context was: "decided by people in other states that don't share the same values."

Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder by lenkite on Saturday October 25, 2025 @03:51PM (#45706490)
And as long as they are verified citizens, I personally don't mind if they don't share the same values. No stuffing of the ballot box with non-citizens.