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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:56:55 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 08:56:45 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> On 2024-10-22 12:43 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 21:37:36 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> Even the dumbest citizen knows that it wouldn't make sense for the
>>> presidency to be decided by the metropolises of the country ...
>> 
>> I’ve heard that nonsense from countless supporters of the
>> Dumbfuckistani voting system, and I still don’t understand it.
>> 
>> Don’t you take it as “self-evident” that all your people are created
>> equal? If so, why shouldn’t their votes count equally too?
> 
> Because the very nature of agriculture means that it would be impossible
> for states doing the real work to have as many people as the areas where
> people collect welfare.

If you mean “large cities”, those are in fact the backbone of your 
economy. The US isn’t an agrarian society any more.

Why should the value of someone’s vote depend on where they live?