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  • All the campaigns will spend time in NY, California, Texas, and nearby states.

    As opposed to spending all their time in cities in swing states like they currently do? The EC is an abysmal failure at preventing candidates from ignoring huge swaths of the country. Fuck the EC. What is even dumber about the EC, is that basically every other office in the US counts all votes equally, and yet this isn't a problem at the state/local level.

    One person, one vote. We are all born equal, all votes should be equal. Nobody is more deserving of a voice than any other.

    Coroprations will own the midwest while farms exist, and care not about voting because their lobbying is paying the ad spend on the coasts.

    That's already the case.

  • It was designed to not allow mob rule.

    And it flat our fails at that. Under the EC, we have a 'mob rule' by the swing states. And candidates basically only ever visit the cities of swing states, and solidly red/blue areas for fundraising on occasion.

    One person, one vote. We are all born equal, so to should our votes be equal. Anything less is a failure of a system.

  • It has nothing to do with a sysadmin. It's impossible for a given request to require zero processing power. Therefore there will always be an upper limit to how many get requests can be handled, even if it's a small amount of processing power per request.

    For a business it's probably not a big deal, but if it's a self hosted site it quickly can become a problem.

  • The root problem is that there is a huge self capturing black market demand for drugs, which itself is a problem rooted in capitalist countries throughout the americas prioritizing GDP expansion over human wellbeing.

    It's the result of failing healthcare systems, the evaporation of 3rd places, the requirement of a car to survive, the failing housing system, the lack of job security and mobility, etc

    No amount of military intervention can change that. Even if you somehow successfully destroyed every cartel with a button press, they'd all be replaced overnight because of the huge demand for drugs.

    What can actually effect the demand is:

    • food, water, housing, education and healthcare being well funded human rights
    • mixed used development/relaxation of zoning laws
    • transportation infrastructure that allows people to actually have a choice in how they get places
    • unions, workplace democracy, worker protections

    You get the picture. Life actually has to be worth living.

  • (in my area, the R will win; if it’s not a partisan office, the incumbent will win; if it’s a yes/no, it’ll be yes, unless it’s something I actually want, in which case no).

    I'm not in quite a red area, but I feel your pain

  • I've voted in person a few times. But I absolutely prefer mail in. I can calmly, quietly, and thoroughly look through the options on the ballot. In person I feel rushed and judged.

    Every part of it is better with mail in ballot.