Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:36:08 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:36:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="412197b5f8790f62ab86b20b51cbba66"; logging-data="1471874"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+9TCXP4Xz2ZSAlUkoC4G8I" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:K1gj7h0/sh9z+wj2/XS1hliDha8= Bytes: 2367 On 2024-10-22, 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? Nope, that's mob rule. What's fair is the agreement the states made BEFORE joining the Union. Now they want to renegotiate the contract. -- “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