In each state everyone's vote is equal. Why should the biggest population areas get to control the politics of the whole country. The electoral college means that CA doesn't get to dictate who PA elects. It basically gives each state the vote that they feel is best for their state. If people really want to effect things they should focus on getting liberal populations to move to more conservative areas and not just gather in single places. It sucks I wish Hillary had won as well.
Protests against Trump in NYC and other cities
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In each state everyone's vote is equal. Why should the biggest population areas get to control the politics of the whole country. The electoral college means that CA doesn't get to dictate who PA elects. It basically gives each state the vote that they feel is best for their state. If people really want to effect things they should focus on getting liberal populations to move to more conservative areas and not just gather in single places. It sucks I wish Hillary had won as well.
And in doing so cost the conservatives the next election years in advance.
We have our pieces of shit, they are the VAST minority of the country. The Conservatives here had to play "Well we're just a little less left" for years to ever get power. And she just said she likes Trump, which is not what Canada goes for. They will lose a tonne of their base for that one comment, it's going to cost that party in the long run.
We're a very liberal country at our core. Stephen Harper sucked but until he blew it he played the "I'm MOSTLY a leftist, with some conservative traditional values!". Then at the end he blew it and went all right. It took our right wing years to convince people they weren't right wing and they forgot really quickly how they ever took power for a few years.
Baron von Loathsome
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Not to mention, we're talking about NYC. With the way the electoral college works, they couldn't have swung the election more towards Clinton if they tried.
Spend 5 minutes with the average voter and you'll change your mind
Laughing Banana
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Godzilla's Left Toe
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FUCK GIULIANI!
59 million people voted for Hillary. It's pretty presumptuous to say that these people might not be the ones who voted. Like there is no point in even bringing it up because we can't know it.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Look how much they love me.
toadsworth
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How many more times is someone going to say this?
This is our first amendment right in action.
People like you will never get it. Escalation is the only solution. It's how Trump did what he did.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Wait you're saying these mass protests aren't in rural areas of the Bible belt? How can that be!?!?!
:lol stay losingI don't have to, since the US already took the largest L there is
Highly doubt it. If anything, it'll energize his zealots more and give him more of a reason to do so.
Not that I'm against this, mind. If I lived anywhere near one of these cities, I'd be protesting.
Vestal
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..............
This is our only recourse now. THEY CONTROL THE ENTIRE FUCKING GOVERNMENT.
DontBeThatGuy
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How about where people living having nothing to do with who rules over them? Winning only California and New York would not win it for the candidate anyway.
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Vilix
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"I know more about the protests than the protesters do."
CitizenCope
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Yeah I don't get it.
If Hillary won and 16 hours later Republicans filled the streets protesting I know exactly how this thread would look.
Again I voted Hillary and want to vomit over her loss.
uh so you want Pence?
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
Lol.
Dream harder.
This country elected Trump and this country needs Trump more than ever.
biggersmaller
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Citizens protesting is 1000000X more ok than the losing candidate. It's not like Clinton is leading the march.
Isn't protesting the best course of action right now? Protesting and getting the attention of your EC representatives?
Wasn't the EC originally intended to prevent people like Trump? If your local representatives are red, especially if you live in a swing state, try to find a way to reach out to them so that they can switch. Call upon them to do what they were made for.
Wasn't the EC originally intended to prevent people like Trump? If your local representatives are red, especially if you live in a swing state, try to find a way to reach out to them so that they can switch. Call upon them to do what they were made for.
He's too busy masturbating to the thought of putting them in internment camps.
I will repeat myself: AMERICA NEEDS TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT IT IS BETTER THAN A PUSSY GRABBING, RACIST DEMAGOGUE.
The Technomancer
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What its doing is setting a tone. One of anger that will hopefully hopefully fuel the fucking Democrats to finally for once in their goddamned lives turn out for the fucking midterm elections in 2018
Sadly it will come to nothing. Just as many people elected him and the US Army is too powerful for a revolution to occur. He is a shitty person but the protesting is going to achieve basically nothing.
That would require the Democrats to not be fucking worthless. They should have had an actual primary instead of just saying it was Hillary's turn. It would have at least shown that they were pretty weak in some key areas.
Another for my ignore list.
CrimsonCommie
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I hope it continues fuck fascism.
An electoral college win is of course legitimate. It should beand has beentreated as legitimate victory. It is still worth pointing out that despite winning the electoral college, Trump lost the popular vote. More people in the USA wanted Hillary as president. Expect televised unrest for at least a few weeks.
Bonen no Max'd
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Why do rural areas get disproportionately large influence over the cities that subsidize their existence? Why do the cities have to bend to the will of the people who depend on them?
MillionStabs
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That picture doesn't make me hate Trump and sympathize with these people. It makes me think "These people are selfish assholes."
AnathemicOne
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Electoral college elected Trump, Hillary won the popular vote.
It saddens me that you fail to grasp the difference between:
Citizens protesting.
Presidential Nominee threatening to protest if he loses.
Vestal
Junior Member
Turn the other cheek eh? Gosh thats what the Republicans did for 8 years right, every single thing Obama proposed was passed right? I'm sure that Talk Radio was brimming full of support for the Legitimacy of Barrack Obama.
Maybe Trump is pulling some Code Geass shenanigans and intends to make unite humanity by being the biggest dick in the universe as possible.
Baron von Loathsome
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He's a "politician" who has no faith in the very system he used to get here. They are people calling out the election for being the farce that it was.
As someone using that system, he has a responsibility to accept the will of the people. And we have the right to "tell it like it is."
Also this.
Skyline Owl
Neo Member
Aye.
Shame they never had a candidate that could bring the energy out of the public.
Boogie9IGN
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Damnit would've said fuck it and gone to the SF protests after work today if I had known. Was so quiet and felt like crap all day with the loss
What are other ways to get more involved (particularly in the Bay Area)? Are there sites that announce this kind of thing?
What are other ways to get more involved (particularly in the Bay Area)? Are there sites that announce this kind of thing?
This. So much this
Admiral Woofington
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the point is that complaining on 'where were they' against these groups when their respective areas did what they had to do is a bit silly. Now if there were protests in red cities then yes.
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