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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 06:30:23 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:59:24 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> On 2024-10-24 3:19 p.m., rbowman wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 05:35:00 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:53:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2024-10-23 2:56 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> 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.

Now that we’ve established that none of you lameass Dumbfuckistanis have 
the slightest clue how agriculture fits into a modern industrial economy, 
can we get back to the question I originally asked?

Namely, if you consider all your citizens to be “created equal”, why do 
you not count their votes equally?