#college elections

[hilaom]

[knownoshamc]

I am sorry but it's genuinely baffling to me how someone that has been charged with felonies not only can run for president, but people actually vote for him

[raionmimi]

Medblection Day

[booksandpaperss]

the electoral college is genuinely so fucked and I know everyone says this every election and in between but it is. seriously so messed up that a country that toots its horn abt democracy elects its leader in such a convolutedly undemocratic way. what the fuck do you mean the leader of the entire country can be decided by 2k voters in georgia. like hello?? that’s in direct contradiction to majority rule. and this election affects the entire world too. what are we doing what are we fucking doinggg

[victusinveritas]

[hollygl125]

Allison Janney in THE WEST WING (1999-2006), “College Kids” (04x03) Insp.

There is a feeling like the clenching of a fist There is a hunger in the center of the chest There is a passage through the darkness and the mist And though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest (*)

Decisions are made by those who show up. You gotta rock the vote!

[sinister-yet-satisfying]

Join something.

Doesn’t matter what it is. Doesn’t need to be political, but it can be.

Just join something. Join a book club. Join a knitting group. Join a kickball league, or a gardening club, or a climate action group. Just join something.

Fascists want you isolated, disconnected and despondent. Your main goal in life for the next 4 years (and possibly beyond) is to do the opposite of what fascists want you to do.

They are better prepared than they were last time but so are we. We know who they are and what they want to do. We can prepare ourselves and our communities for it, but only if we actually have communities.

If you do want to get engaged in politics, do it at the local level.

If you live in a blue area, you need to fight to keep it that way. Talk to your local representatives and make sure they are doing everything in their power to enact protections against Project 2025.

If you live in a red area, fight to change that. Work on city council campaigns, and state congressional campaigns. Keep an eye on local legislation and bring attention to all the universally unpopular policies republicans are going to push through.

Fascism only wins if we do nothing. Fascism wins if we throw up our hands and throw in the towel. Fascism win if we make it easy for them to win.

Don’t make it easy.

[felixcloud6288]

Y'know, I was thinking how messed up the electoral college is. From its very inception, it was designed to be abused by the wealthy elites.

Back during the slave era, we had the 3/5 compromise which made slaves count as 3/5 of a person for census purposes. And since the population census decides how many representatives the state has and the number of electors it gets to send, states with high slave populations had higher political power despite having fewer people who could actually vote. And slaves were overwhelmingly owned by the rich. So the more slaves you owned, the more political power you had.

Today, prisoners are used in the same way. They don't have any voting power, but if you're incarcerated, you are counted as a resident of the location you're incarcerated in and are used to increase the political power of the state you're in. It creates the same situation where states with high prison populations have higher political power despite having fewer people who could actually vote. So once again, the more prisoners you have, the more political power you have. And since most prisons are privately owned, the people who benefit from this the most are the rich.

The main point I want to make is that not voting inherently does not do anything. You're voting whether you actually cast a ballot or not. If you don't directly vote, you're yielding your voting power to everyone else who chooses to vote and your body is going to be used to decide how many votes your state casts. Your state will cast the same number of electoral votes regardless of the number of people in it who actually vote because a state's electoral vote count is based on the state's total population.

You're going to be used to decide the election no matter what. You might as well try getting a more desired outcome.

[queermarzipan]

YOU GUYS WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK YOU GUYS. YOU'RE ACTUALLY FUCKING CLOSE TO GETTING FAIR ELECTIONS. I'M NOT EXAGGERATING YOU'RE FUCKING CLOSE

YOU'RE AT 209/270 GUYS!!! 61 TO GO!!!! ISTG PLEASE SHARE THIS I'M

[spinaholi]

brennan said “oh you thought the lows of sophomore year were low? how bout instead of battling eldritch horrors they’re fighting the financial and systemic horrors of the american schooling system,” and then he punched me in the face

[tardigradebutt]

i think that everyone needs to study anthropology like just a little bit. it should be a requirement. having a base level knowledge of The Human Condition and how to think about other people would be. very beneficial

[real-american]

MSNBC host rages after seeing polls showing Trump leading, calls Electoral College a ‘suicide pact’

MSNBC host rages after seeing polls showing Trump leading, calls Electoral College a ‘suicide pact’

Yeah but if it showed it the other way then the left would be just fine with the EC. This guy actually said if the EC wasn't in the constitution it would be unconstitutional. How do these people even function in life being so dumb.

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

Imagine an election night scenario in which a presidential candidate wins only 12 states but wins the election because those states delivered the requisite 270 Electoral College votes.

Just do the math:

California (54)

Texas (40)

Florida (30)

New York (28)

Pennsylvania (19)

Illinois (19)

Ohio (17)

Georgia (16)

Michigan (15)

North Carolina (16)

New Jersey (14)

Virginia (13)

That’s 281 electoral votes, enough to secure the presidency at the expense of the remaining 38 states. Worth noting: 38 is the minimum number of states required to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But you need only those 12 to win the presidency.

Unlikely? Of course. But someday? Why not?

The scenario underscores one criticism of the Electoral College: It allows candidates to focus on a few key states rather than campaigning across the entire country. We do that now. They’re called swing states. [...]

[relaxedstyles]

[yuwuta]

gojo would kill your work husband. but if he were the work husband, that's a different story

REAL!! he’s such a hypocrite because if someone mentioned you had a work husband, his entire world would stop and he wold devise the absolute worst plans to make sure that your co-worker, everyone at your job, and everyone in the next building over knew that he was happily committed to you 

but if he is the work husband, he’s very........ dutiful in his role. there’s a loose office/lawyer au in my head where satoru is your secretary, and for all intents and purposes, your personal assistant, and he’s good at his job, but mostly because he considers his job to be pleasing you. he has coffee for you when you arrive, he moves your schedule around without you asking, he has answers to questions before you can even ask them, he has fresh flowers on your desk weekly, pokes into your meetings to pretend to hand you a file that’s really just maybe a single document in a manilla folder with candy on top of it—he’s made himself your business, your partner; he’s made himself irreplaceable, and he loves to remind everybody of that fact. 

he’s also extremely loyal. sure, he could day a week’s worth of work done in about a day, but that doesn’t mean he’ll just use his talents for anybody. he’s your secretary, so he’s at your beck and call, and everyone knows it. they know he’s the best, but also that he’s off limits—not because you won’t share him, but because satoru won’t let himself be shared. 

he also extends his duties beyond work, of course. when he hands you a print out of your schedule for the day and you’re confused by the three-hour block of time you have in the middle of the day, satoru just helps you shrug your coat of your shoulders and smiles, “that’s for the lunch date you have with me, of course!” hanging up your coat in your closet for you, “i’m paying, see you soon, sweets.” and because you’re great at your job, and satoru helps you be great, nobody really questions when the two of you have time for a 13-course tasting menu at 1pm on a tuesday afternoon. and if they did, all satoru would say that you two had a lovely date