Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@TheMagpulPone
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Exactly what they said in 2016. We still won.

 
Y’all only won because of an archaic institution that was meant to give slave states more power and we should get rid of it.  
 
Another point: the idea that more rural, less populated states need to have more electoral points per voter in order to avoid getting out voted by voters from more urban states might have made sense in the 18th and 19th century, but not any more.
 
Voter demographics are much more diverse intra-state now. Presidential candidates only win each state by a little over half the popular vote. For example, the biggest win in 2016 was about 60% for Clinton in California (Edit: this actually wasn’t the biggest margin in 2016, my bad). The Electoral College actually does the very thing it’s supposedly meant to stop: making a ton of people’s votes mean nothing.

The popular vote winner has lost the election 5 times: 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016.

1824 is kinda the outlier because not just did John Quincy Adams lose the popular vote to Andrew Jackson, but he also earned fewer electoral college votes than him. What happened is 4 candidates won electoral college votes that year (which almost never happens), resulting in nobody getting a majority, so the election was then decided by the House, and a corrupt deal was cut between Adams and Speaker of the House Henry Clay to pick him despite Jackson having more delegates.

In 1876 there were 20 electoral college delegates who were in dispute, as both parties claimed to have won Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina. To resolve this we had yet another corrupt deal struck where Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was given all of the delegates (despite Democrat Samuel Tilden earning more votes) and in exchange the Republicans agreed to remove troops from the South. This of course ended reconstruction and allowed the south to fall segregationist control.

1888 is really the only one where there really wasn’t anything shady going on. Harrison just straight up won more electoral votes than Cleveland despite winning fewer popular votes.

Then you have 2000, where Al Gore won the popular vote, and later recounts showed that he also should have won Florida and therefor won the electoral vote, but the Republican majority Supreme Court handed the election to Bush anyway.

And of course we had 2016, where Trump won a handful of states by tiny margins, yet those states refused to conduct recounts to verify the results. When you couple that with the demonstrated lack of security in the voting systems and the hacking attempts and voter roll issues in addition to the Republicans voter suppression tactics, it’s quite difficult to call any part of that election legitimate.

So yeah, our political system is broken, it has always been broken, but every time it “breaks” it benefits the powerful so they aren’t going to fix it.

@Ereiam

@AaronMk
Yeah, at this scale $20 million is really pathetic. Hell, the LVMH luxury group has pledged to give half of that sum by themselves (probably to look good on their tax returns, but still…)

And then Bolsonaro decides to just decline it. Don’t you ever just think about how a RPG has an effective range of four-hundred meters?

In light of Notre Dame donors not paying out their promised money though I’d hazard had it gone through the luxury company probably would not have followed through.