Um.... what.... aka, this is the dumbest thing I've ever read

Now, I’m not a person who ever had children, but I do recall from being one, that kids are super weird. Like really weird, and sometimes play bonkers games including being animals. And, from my fading memory, if a grown up had objected to me meowing for fun, I would have only meowed more. Meow, check out these cat ears I made for myself. Lick lick.

I’m also not a furry, but I do hope the furry kids have fun storming the castle.

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He’s not wrong, just not in the way he imagines.

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A related point came up recently in the Map Library.

In the second map, each hexagon represents one electorate, which is about 110,000 people.

To people who enjoy knowing stuff, it’s a striking display about how population density varies so much. And then there are the dangerous goofs who think it’s excellent conspiracy territory.

I like the phrasing “Acres don’t vote. People do.”

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My short answer would be “because that’s a map of where the people live”. Of course it’s more complicated than that…for instance it’s actually where enfranchised people live, because there is no small amount of cheating going on to make that much red on the map.

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Because the land looks like that, but the population looks like this:

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No worries. Project 2025 will eventually make sure that only men who own land have the right to vote.
Problem solved!

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This is such a stupid bill. But unlike many stupid bills filed this session, this one has stalled. It never even got a hearing in committee. Deadline has passed for TX House to move any house bills out of committee.
It could be revived as an amendment to some bill that did make it out, but that is unlikely. It died before even being heard in committee.

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land vs population

I would hope at least someone replied with this or something similar.
(Edit: or a link to https://try-to-impeach-this.jetpack.ai/ for a more in-depth answer)

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“Just lucky, I guess?”

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I’d like to see something like that showing the effects of the electoral college, and how Democrats do get elected president occasionally despite the huge bias toward red states.

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There’s the FiveThirtyEight map of the electoral college mentioned at the link in my edit, but probably others out there also…

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I cannot for the life of me concoct a scenario where that makes any sense at all…

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I can imagine capitalist solutions to slums but they are all modest proposals in one form or another. :grimacing:

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