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Cards Against Humanity Launches a Super Pac to Match Elon Musk's Super Pac

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Re: Cards Against Humanity Launches a Super Pac to Match Elon Musk's Super Pac

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's a federation of states so you can't quite do that unless you abandon that conceit.

No, devolving powers to the states is what makes it a federation. Having a state-representative legislative chamber makes it a federation. Electing a federal president via popular vote does not indicate defederation any more than the existence of the House of Representatives does.

Electing a president via popular vote would give populous states disproportionate influence over the country compared to other states. That is important because the president could do obnoxious things against the best interest of any particular state, especially ones with less influence. The stuff happening to your home state is way more relevant to your life than your political party or special interests.

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#32

There is really any mystery as to why half the voters don't vote? Unless you live in one of the half dozen "swing states", your vote is just a symbolic gesture with little chance of impacting the overall outcome.

The problem is brainwashing.

The formula is this: YOU learn all by yourself what all electable candidates say they want to do. YOU figure out all by yourself which ones LIE. One lie is enough, if they do it they keep doing it.

And then YOU chose which election program you want to vote for.

Ideally you chose what is best for the country but this is rather challenging for people. We can forgive them for being stuck thinking only of themselves.

Why would it be perfectly obvious if one is ordering food but not for elections???

Food might taste bad and you might get food poisoning. A bad choice doesn't mean years of suffering.

Does one not look at the menu card? Or do you ask your mum what to order? Do you roam around the restaurant looking what other people are eating? Do you order what CNN is screaming at you?

If people scream at you from all directions that you should order the snails in garlic butter, does that mean you will never have to look at the menu the rest of your life? You can just eat snails every day, everyone else is eating snails every day???? Why are you not eating snails?? It is the nr 1 most sold food! Don't you want snails to be the nr 1 food?

Then the restaurant switches to the cheapest worse possible snails because people will order it anyway because other people will order it.

Is this a display of good taste?

I hate apple but I buy iphone because they are good enough for what I need. I might get an android phone some day. They are good enough too.

I did actually look.

With elections no one is looking. People have no idea. Non of them! There is not one journalist who knows anything.

For each million voters one or two have watched a single video from a candidate other than the top 2. A video by a 5 year old on tiktok gets more attention online than the entire list of election programs.

I could see logic in getting advice from an expert on something or from your mum but if they know absolutely nothing about the topic?!?!

The voter is therefore brainwashed into irrelevance, she won't influence elections in any way.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Launches a Super Pac to Match Elon Musk's Super Pac

#34
Not a lot of people just how much voter data is available out there and how easy it is to check if someone voted and their party affiliation.

On a side note, if folks are interested in US politics humor/election party card games, I'd also check out democrazy.com

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#35
post #13

It seems some people are surprised that they were able to buy data on who voted and how they lean. I wasn't surprised because I worked on a campaign before. It's ridiculous how much information you can get about voters for not a lot of money. You can get their phone number and email address that they provided with their voter registration, and the do not call list does not even apply (nor the do not spam list). You c…

Sure, and like other targeted ad buyers being sold bullshit, you simply take it for granted that the data you get is accurate. Meanwhile, looking through my SMS history, I have 8 texts from this week addressed to either my grandmother, who is 86 and recovering from a stroke, or her last boyfriend, who is dead, telling me about GOP candidates in Nevada. I have never lived in Nevada. She no longer lives in Nevada. He no longer lives at all. I haven't voted since 2004. If you're just going to go by my "mood affiliation" or cultural leanings or whatever, voter or not, I'm sure as shit not a Republican. Thankfully, Nikki Haley finally stopped bugging me when she dropped out.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Launches a Super Pac to Match Elon Musk's Super Pac

#37
post #22
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t it flat illegal to pay people to vote? Otherwise Trump or Harris could just… directly bribe people to vote for them through a cutout.

It's not if its a superPAC, apparently.

That seems to be the work around.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Launches a Super Pac to Match Elon Musk's Super Pac

#38
post #8

There is really any mystery as to why half the voters don't vote? Unless you live in one of the half dozen "swing states", your vote is just a symbolic gesture with little chance of impacting the overall outcome.

The presidency is not the only election on the ballot. And if you ask people who don't vote why not, very few of them are going to mention the electoral college. I would wager most people who don't vote couldn't even explain what the electoral college is.

In many districts, your vote for US House and Senate seats largely doesn't matter, either. For many people, those are the only elections they are thinking about when it comes to November.

Senate seats are elected state-wide, so they largely go the same way as the presidential vote. If you're in a deep-red or deep-blue state (i.e., nearly all of them), your individual vote isn't going to make a difference.

House seats are district-specific, but:

  a) the re-election rate of incumbents is over 90%
  b) districts are often drawn to lock-in control for a specific party
State senate and house seats are often no better.

However, much to the credit of the sibling response, there are all kinds of local and regional races as well as ballot initiatives that are important.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Launches a Super Pac to Match Elon Musk's Super Pac

#39
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, devolving powers to the states is what makes it a federation. Having a state-representative legislative chamber makes it a federation. Electing a federal president via popular vote does not indicate defederation any more than the existence of the House of Representatives does.

Electing a president via popular vote would give populous states disproportionate influence over the country compared to other states. That is important because the president could do obnoxious things against the best interest of any particular state, especially ones with less influence. The stuff happening to your home state is way more relevant to your life than your political party or special interests.

Arbitrary lines on maps are arbitrary. North & South Dakota are far more similar than north and south California.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Launches a Super Pac to Match Elon Musk's Super Pac

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, devolving powers to the states is what makes it a federation. Having a state-representative legislative chamber makes it a federation. Electing a federal president via popular vote does not indicate defederation any more than the existence of the House of Representatives does.

Electing a president via popular vote would give populous states disproportionate influence over the country compared to other states. That is important because the president could do obnoxious things against the best interest of any particular state, especially ones with less influence. The stuff happening to your home state is way more relevant to your life than your political party or special interests.

> Electing a president via popular vote would give populous states disproportionate influence over the country compared to other states.

It would give every human, who has the right to representation, exactly proportionate influence. The weird fashy retired cops in Idaho will have to settle for having the same number of senators as Californians have.

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