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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:05:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-25, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2024-10-25 6:49 a.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-10-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:03:42 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2024-10-24 1:35 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:53:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If the people in those "large cities" do not receive food, what will
>>>>>> happen to them?
>>>>>
>>>>> They won’t be able to make the machines that the farmers use to farm
>>>>> their crops. There would be no electricity generation or fuel supply,
>>>>> no manufacturing of farmhouses, no laying of roads for the trucks to
>>>>> supply feed and fertilizer and seed and take away produce. Nobody to
>>>>> pay the farmers. Nobody to educate them on how to grow their crops.
>>>>>
>>>>> The whole system collapses.
>>>>
>>>> City people don't have a monopoly on he production of machines.
>>>
>>> Machines, including farming machines, are complicated things. Most of the
>>> modern ones need to be built with the help of other machines. There need
>>> to be support machines for transport (of raw materials, workers, finished
>>> products), fuelling, communications etc. And for keeping track of orders
>>> and shipments and payments and all that. This is why you don’t see big
>>> factories out in the middle of corn fields.
>> 
>> And these machines that make machines aren't made in the cities. When you
>> don't what the hell you're talking about, maybe you should just slink away
>> and lick your wounds.
>> 
>>> Anyway, getting back to the point: why should the value of your vote
>>> depend on where you live? If you believe that all your citizens are
>>> “created equal”, then shouldn’t their votes count equally, too?
>> 
>> Because it's done on a state by state level and the votes are equal in each
>> state. And the only reason the Electoral College is not completely equal is
>> that each state gets two electoral votes, one for each Senator. But many
>> states have only one or two Electoral votes based on their representation in
>> the House. So New York has 30 Electoral votes. Vermont, Delaware, Wyoming,
>> North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, West Virginia, Rhode Island and New
>> Hampshire (all together) have 30 votes. That's nine states out 50 who have
>> the influence in the presidential race as one state, New York. This is your
>> "outsize" advantage? You're clueless. Stick to what you know. I wouldn't
>> lecture on the stupidity of the government of New Zealand. Stick your nose
>> in your own business.
>> 
>> BTW, you've been told over and over again why the Electoral College is set
>> up the way it is. Quit droning on like a broken record about it.
>> 
>> If Trump wins, he'll probalby win both the popular vote and the electoral
>> vote anyhow. Than what are you going to whine aobut? You don't change the
>> rules midstream.
>
> The stupid are no better than children which is probably why they always 
> have temper tantrums whenever anything political doesn't go their way. 
> Much like children, they will use strawmen and cheat to get what they 
> want too.

They never grew up. They run completely on emotion. Now Trump is supposedly 
"Hitler." What next, Stalin and Mousie Dung? Or a three-headed combination 
of all of them? Their strident, unhinged bullshit is not helping their 
cause.

I find it amusing (and a bit strange) that both the Los Angeles Times and 
the Washington Post have refused to endorse Kamala Harris. Two of the most 
Woke newspapers in the country. I don't think Lawrence is going to have to 
worry about the popular vote and Electoral College splitting in this 
election, unless there is a WHOLE lot of cheating going on.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien