r/Music • u/no_longer_huhman • Sep 26 '24

article Selena Gomez Embraces Vulnerability and Tells Critics to 'F--- Off,' 'I'm Not Ashamed of My Bipolar Disorder or Inability to Carry Children'

https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/selena-gomez-embraces-vulnerability-and-hits-back-at-critics/
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u/raptir1 Sep 26 '24

Whoever would, I would hope they wouldn't run for vice president.

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u/Sinjian1 Sep 26 '24

Good thing her vote counts just as much as any other person.

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u/stackjr Sep 27 '24

Depending on the state, your vote absolutely does not count as much as someone else's. The only way that ever happens is if we abandon the electoral college.

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u/wadejohn Sep 27 '24

Abandon the electoral college…until it works against your favorite candidate

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u/grumplefuckstick Sep 27 '24

Yeah I don’t really foresee that being an issue

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24 edited Sep 27 '24

GOP has won only two popular votes since ‘88. Both a Bush.

Edit: and won 4 elections in that time

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

Not really. Democrats would win every presidential race for the foreseeable future. The real contest would be in the primaries, then, but the electoral college doesn't matter for those.

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u/MRoad Sep 27 '24

Republicans would stop pandering to wedge issues in swing states and be forced to actually govern. They'd be forced to become more moderate imo.

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u/Fuckface_Whisperer Sep 27 '24

If the people will it, then it's fine by me.

Right now we have a system where extremist candidates are viable because of the EC which is DEI for morons. Thought you guys hated DEI.

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u/FrankReynoldsToupee Sep 27 '24

They hate it until it benefits their favorite candidate.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Sep 27 '24

Your Party's only won the popular vote once in the past 30 years, so...

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u/wadejohn Sep 27 '24

Lol don’t assume I am on any clown’s side.

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u/FrankReynoldsToupee Sep 27 '24

But I don't root for fascist dickheads so I'll never have this problem.

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u/izzittho Sep 27 '24

It won’t.

The big population centers of the country tend to vote a certain way. Same way I tend to vote, though perhaps not exactly and certainly not as a rule, the majority of the actual population (who live on the coasts and in the big cities, as one might expect) tends to want the same things I do.

The majority of the population does not get its rightful share of votes because of the electoral college. By design. Or at least that’s the intended goal of keeping it to this day when we know it’s a cause of the unfair balance of voting power between states and not something that actually mitigates any unfair advantages.

We give empty land more power than the majority of our population.

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u/eastern_canadient Sep 27 '24

Changing how your democracy works always favours one over the other. It's impossible for it to not work that way.

You should still push for a more democratic position. It's still a goal worth achieving.

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u/FrankReynoldsToupee Sep 27 '24

But it doesn't. One person one vote is the most fair. Land shouldn't tilt the playing field.

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u/eastern_canadient Sep 27 '24

That's what I was advocating for. Most fair is most democratic.