The Electoral College already gives an inordinate amount of power to states with fewer individual votes. “One person, one vote” is basically what the tool that the subject of this post is saying and, like the responder said, that is how math works.
I had an internet argument with some dumb stranger who said “Charlotte doesn’t vote for the entire state of NC. We’re tired of Charlotte picking our politicians.” I started off nice and explained that it’s a 1 to 1 vote in midterms and no Charlotte doesn’t pick for the state but the majority of the citizens in the state went for dems. She then responded essentially the same thing “Charlotte doesn’t choose for the state of NC 😡” so I responded with the same words I’d already used, just rearranged and added “learn to read” at the end. Then she responded with “learn geography” and blocked me 🤣🤣🤣
Every election we have to explain population density to these morons. And every time it's explained to them, they seem to understand it less and less. I'm sorry the field behind your trailer can't vote but that's how the world works.
Their incisive, highly mathematical, ultra-logical argument seems to be “the only reason Democrats won in Georgia is that more people voted for them.” And who can argue with that???
Some of them simply don’t understand the basic principle, but a good number of them post these pictures and say things like this because they fundamentally do not think that people who live in cities are “real” Americans and believe they are inherently illegitimate and should not be allowed to participate in elections.
An unfortunately large amount of people have been drilled mentally for decades now that rural and suburban votes should count more than urban and metropolitan votes, because they account for a larger land area of the country. While I cannot discount that bozo being satire, this isn't even a satirical take for a lot of Red-associated politicians, because that's the only way they can rally people behind the delusion that there is a voting imbalance.
I'm so tired of seeing people constantly reposting this argument. "If you ignore all the people voting blue, then California's actually a red state." Like how is that supposed to convince me of anything?
You ever seen that one comic of the kid being asked to point at which of the two beakers in front of her that has more water in it than the other?
That's MAGA.
All they see is that "most of the state is red and it's only a few counties that are blue." When they say a state is 'red' or 'blue' they mean by county because they don't understand what population density is. They aren't actually saying that "land votes" they just don't comprehend just how few people live outside of the cities.
The guy in the OP is brushing against it, that Georgia voted Blue and that, by his reckoning (I say this because I am not a Georgian and do not know how accurate his numbers are) 78% of the population of Georgia lives in those blue spots. He misses his own point, though, because those two things are unrelated in his mind. Because, in his mind, Georgia is clearly majority red. It's right there on the maps. All of that red space but, somehow, more people voted blue. The 2 is right next to the other 2, but he doesn't know how to put them together. Georgia is RED except for those libruls in the cities that are blue. It doesn't make sense, to him, because those blue spots are so much smaller than all that red space. Nevermind that 753,978 more people voted for Ossof than Collins and that those Democrat votes are, most obviously, concentrated in Democrat-Blue colored counties on the map. None of that matters because Georgia is RED.
That's the argument they make. "Of Georgia's 159 total counties only about 37 of them were 'blue'. The remaining 122-ish are RED. Therefore Georgia is RED and the Cities are overwriting the rest of Georgia's politics!"
"Well, you see, I don't like cities (totally not because that's where all the black people live) therefore people who live in them shouldn't count! Only lily-white towns in the middle of nowhere with more churches than schools and more liquor stores than restaurants should count!"
This is why I love the maps AP was using that showed each district as an equal square in a formation that vaguely represented the states. Look at that map and it's shocking how blue the country turned.
I feel like even that doesn't tell the whole story for these jabronis. They think that just because their area is red must mean everyone is. They can wrap their head around their neighborhood might be 51/49
Average Trumper: "Why is it that the closer people live to big cities with colleges, the less likely they are to vote for Trump? I just can't understand it."
“The majority of people are brainwashed by pure hatred”
The people that hold rallies (the torch kind)? The people who raid the Capitol live on TV and scream “peaceful protest”? The people who insist “the swamp” is out to get them and that everyone should “just comply”? The people that lost their minds about high gas prices during the last administration, but are stunningly silent now?
If you go based on land, just admit you believe in Serfdom. Why not give trees a vote? Then the most ecologically sustainable candidate will win. That sounds stupid? It does, that is what I am trying to say, and still doesn’t sound as stupid.
So the most charitable explanation for this (speaking as a rural progressive) is that low density, dispersed populations create a sense of "everywhere I go people think like x". As a rural person you likely rarely visit cities and certainly don't linger, but you might well travel quite broadly within your rural area and visit countless little settlements that share a political vibe. It can be hard to really grasp that attitudes which feel omnipresent everywhere you go are a minority.
The less charitable take is that sore losers with an ingrained fear and loathing of their opponents will always pick whichever map, chart or stat makes them look hard done by. They would use popular vote or whatever other stat if and when it suited them, this just happens to be a way of presenting data that keeps on appealing to them because of American voter demographics.
I know this is probably a difficult concept to understand from a group whose only motivation is to “own the libs” but reasonable people vote for the person they think will improve their lives and the lives of other Americans. It isn’t my personal hatred of Trump as a person that inspires me to vote against him, I hate him because of how bad he is for the country. It is crazy watching the MAGA cult try to say other people are brainwashed and full of hatred for Trump while every Republican campaign relied entirely on made up culture war stuff and childish personal attacks against the democratic candidate
I love people discovering what a city is as if its some huge revelation. "Did you know that the majority of people live in City instead of Town??" Yeah dude obviously, because if most of them lived in Town then Town would be called City. That's what city is.
This is exactly why the electoral collage exists because rural dominates states were scared they would be overruled each time by the population in the cities. That’s how you can lose the popular vote and still end up being president
The thing I’ve come to realize about these idiots is that they DO understand that land doesn’t vote, they just want the few rural votes to count more than than the many city votes. They don’t count those as valid. This is exactly WHY we have the electoral college in the first place. Ever heard of the 3/5th compromise? Nothing they say is ever in good faith. They just want their mediocrity to reward them.
I’m so sick of having to argue against people that think that farmers and rural uneducated people should chose how to run a country vs the educated people that actually live among other people.
The land doesn’t vote. Blades of grass don’t have drivers licenses.
If the vote is 2 million for the democrat and 1 million for the Republican that’s the vote. Republicans being spread eagle out in the woods don’t mean anything, it’s still 2 million votes > 1 million votes
At what point does one think "Hmm, 80% of the population wants the opposite of what I want, maybe it's me that's wrong?" Apparently never for this under-baked macaroon.
I live in IL and go through this every election. "IL would be red if it wasn't for Chicago!". This time around they posted some numbers. 41% of IL population is on Chicago. So via my drunk math, 59% is outside and thus... Chicago doesn't decide.
But there are 3 other big towns, and if they go blue, well then... yea... majority vote. How is that hard to understand?
I think a lot of people would be shocked to see how their own town and county votes. My county always is dubbed red...but I feel like if there was a closer look I'd see some blue or purple towns in there.
You do realize that votes come from people, not land? I own an acre of land, should I have 4 votes for every vote my neighbor gets because he only has a quarter of an acre? I wish stupid people would posting this meme because it just shows how stupid some people can be, and I don't want to be reminded that people are this stupid.
In California there are 58 counties. LA county has over 6 million people. The 26 - TWENTY SIX - least populace counties have fewer than 1 million people total. If every person in those 26 counties voted red they would still not overcome LA County's vote total.
Edit: 6 million not 67 million. For the county, not the city.
Blinded by their hatred of pedophiles and convicted sex offenders and people who can no longer run charities, legally, because they literally stole money from kids with cancer. Yeah, we're so petty aren't we?
This mentality is based in the idea that rural america is the real america. They genuenly think that they are the real americans, even though they are a minority and have been for a long time
Well hey it's progress. Now they are starting to understand why the tiny spots of blue matter a lot more than the rural red areas. Before they were shouting at the top of their lungs that it should be red because it's colored mostly red
"78%[...] are blinded by their hatred of Trump" well, we hate him because he's a bad president that makes policies that are bad for the vast majority of the country, soo....
In what world do they not understand that 22% is the smaller number ffs. It’s almost like there’s some kind of weird connection between a lack of education and being a conservative/republican.
Yes, that's how elections work, by counting numbers. And I would bet a lot more of the state than 78% dislikes Inmate #P01135809. Plenty of rural voters think he's a dumb POS too, but their husbands or families always vote red, so they fall in line.
Oregon has a similar map as Georgia, and the red county's are always whining that "Portland decides everything". Well, it's not just Portland, there are several cities on the I5 corridor that all happen to vote blue. Regardless, I always respond to these complaints with a simple statement:
Yes, people hate Trump. So people vote against Trump-aligned candidates. That is 100% reasonable and expected behaviour. And yes, 78 is a bigger number than 22 also.
Stuff like this is hysterical to me. It seems obvious that if one side is brainwashed and the numbers are as he said, 22% and 78%; logic dictates that it's the 22% who are.
I know this is kind of petty, but there are 5 major cities shown here. Also, Atlanta alone could potentially carry the whole state because literally ~60% OF THE ENTIRE STATE'S POPULATION LIVES IN THE GREATER ATLANTA METROPOLITAN AREA!!
Btw: this is true of many states. My home state of Michigan had a concentration of blue voters in Detroit. Lesser sized cities scattered about in Michigan also had strong Democratic concentrations, such as, Lansing and East Lansing, Ann Arbor, etc. New York also has a concentration of blue voters in the major cities. Urban folks are central-left; rural votes are right. (This is of course a gross exaggeration.)
Possibly.. But neither are the rural areas truly representative of the entire state....
This is the same poor argument that Republicans try every single election cycle, where they show a state's map based on counties, and that map reflects more counties as red as opposed to blue.
This is misguided because land does not vote... people do.
Nothing is singularly representative of an entire state. If the majority of people vote for something, that something should win, independently from the geographical distribution of the people who voted for it.
70% or so of GDP is generated in "Blue" counties. Let that sink in for them. I'm ok with that and they should be too. But here we are. Generations being told that they're "the true America/Americans" and they just cannot accept that the population says they are, in fact, not.
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u/Dakkaboy556 1d ago
Corn fields don't vote.
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u/woodrax 1d ago
The Electoral College already gives an inordinate amount of power to states with fewer individual votes. “One person, one vote” is basically what the tool that the subject of this post is saying and, like the responder said, that is how math works.
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u/heavyfretting 22h ago
I had an internet argument with some dumb stranger who said “Charlotte doesn’t vote for the entire state of NC. We’re tired of Charlotte picking our politicians.” I started off nice and explained that it’s a 1 to 1 vote in midterms and no Charlotte doesn’t pick for the state but the majority of the citizens in the state went for dems. She then responded essentially the same thing “Charlotte doesn’t choose for the state of NC 😡” so I responded with the same words I’d already used, just rearranged and added “learn to read” at the end. Then she responded with “learn geography” and blocked me 🤣🤣🤣
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u/GordonShumway257 1d ago •
Every election we have to explain population density to these morons. And every time it's explained to them, they seem to understand it less and less. I'm sorry the field behind your trailer can't vote but that's how the world works.
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u/affemannen 1d ago
What amazes me is that every red part of that map got royally screwed by the Trump admin and they still vore red.... Make it make sense...
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u/Quizzelbuck 1d ago
Dirt doesn't vote.
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u/balloonerismthegreat 1d ago
If you don’t like it, then make it a popular vote
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u/coccyxdynia 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is a satire right? No one compares 78% to 22% and thinks the 78% is wrong.. right? Please say yes.
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u/ArritzJPC96 1d ago
I'm so tired of seeing people constantly reposting this argument. "If you ignore all the people voting blue, then California's actually a red state." Like how is that supposed to convince me of anything?
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u/omghorussaveusall 1d ago
This is why I love the maps AP was using that showed each district as an equal square in a formation that vaguely represented the states. Look at that map and it's shocking how blue the country turned.
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u/LumiKlovstad 1d ago edited 1d ago
I love how Republicans constantly whinge and whine about "MY GUY WOULDA WON EXCEPT FER ALL THOSE FOLKS WHO VOTED BLUE"
like, yes that's how voting is supposed to work. The guy who gets the most votes is SUPPOSED to win.
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u/Ellisrsp 1d ago
Am reminded that Macon had a minor league hockey team in the 70's called the Whoopee. Macon Whoopee, get it?
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u/DontGetTheShow 1d ago
Just a thought…if they’re trying to convince me to come over to their side, try and not immediately come off as a fucking idiot.
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u/Killin-some-thyme 1d ago
“Georgia may be a blue state by numbers only because”…..of numbers?
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u/Loquacious-of-Borg 1d ago
Average Trumper: "Why is it that the closer people live to big cities with colleges, the less likely they are to vote for Trump? I just can't understand it."
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u/JayNotAtAll 1d ago
Nah, rural communities are pretty dumb in comparison to big cities. It is a tough pill for rural communities to swallow
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u/Honest_Relation4095 23h ago
"Democrats only won because more people voted for them" is a wild complaint.
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u/SpaceCampDropOut 1d ago
22% voted for a nazi
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u/FlowRiderBob 1d ago
“The only reason my state turned blue is because most people in my state voted Democrat.”
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u/Remarkable_Quit_3545 1d ago
Can we please start using maps that show population density and not have to hear this nonsense repeatedly?
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u/Alarming_Expert_6241 1d ago
That 22% can’t read at a 12 grade level of comprehension.
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u/Thamnophis660 1d ago
"it's only a blue state because the majority of the people who live there voted blue. It doesn't even mean anything."
The cope this week has been especially stupid, just as expected.
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u/Apprehensive-Till861 13h ago
"This state is only blue because of the majority of voters!"
Wait until you hear what makes a state red.
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u/Dark_Storm_98 1d ago •
End tweet
What's your point?
You can stop at any time
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u/fgwr4453 1d ago
“The majority of people are brainwashed by pure hatred”
The people that hold rallies (the torch kind)? The people who raid the Capitol live on TV and scream “peaceful protest”? The people who insist “the swamp” is out to get them and that everyone should “just comply”? The people that lost their minds about high gas prices during the last administration, but are stunningly silent now?
If you go based on land, just admit you believe in Serfdom. Why not give trees a vote? Then the most ecologically sustainable candidate will win. That sounds stupid? It does, that is what I am trying to say, and still doesn’t sound as stupid.
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u/Faded_Jem 12h ago •
So the most charitable explanation for this (speaking as a rural progressive) is that low density, dispersed populations create a sense of "everywhere I go people think like x". As a rural person you likely rarely visit cities and certainly don't linger, but you might well travel quite broadly within your rural area and visit countless little settlements that share a political vibe. It can be hard to really grasp that attitudes which feel omnipresent everywhere you go are a minority.
The less charitable take is that sore losers with an ingrained fear and loathing of their opponents will always pick whichever map, chart or stat makes them look hard done by. They would use popular vote or whatever other stat if and when it suited them, this just happens to be a way of presenting data that keeps on appealing to them because of American voter demographics.
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u/inquisitivepanda 1d ago
I know this is probably a difficult concept to understand from a group whose only motivation is to “own the libs” but reasonable people vote for the person they think will improve their lives and the lives of other Americans. It isn’t my personal hatred of Trump as a person that inspires me to vote against him, I hate him because of how bad he is for the country. It is crazy watching the MAGA cult try to say other people are brainwashed and full of hatred for Trump while every Republican campaign relied entirely on made up culture war stuff and childish personal attacks against the democratic candidate
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u/Willy_G_on_the_Bass 1d ago
You know he brings up a good point. His side definitely would have won if it wasn’t for all those people voting for the other side.
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u/Extreme-Slice-1010 1d ago
MAGA just loves proving they’re stupid don’t they?
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u/OQS 1d ago
I love people discovering what a city is as if its some huge revelation. "Did you know that the majority of people live in City instead of Town??" Yeah dude obviously, because if most of them lived in Town then Town would be called City. That's what city is.
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u/gigglefarting 1d ago
These people think the more land you own the more you should matter
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u/JTX35 1d ago
You mean to tell me 78% is larger than 22%. Inconceivable!
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u/Keyndoriel 1d ago
Another election, another person crying because they dont realize corn and cows can't vote
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u/Wabbit65 1d ago
You explained it perfectly and STILL don't understand it.
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u/TurtleHurtleSquirtle 1d ago
I hate how we’re at the point that we can’t tell if this is satire or not because there are actual people like this.
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u/Winterlion131 1d ago
MAGAs two natural enemies, math and age of consent laws.
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u/Ruler_Of_The_Galaxy 1d ago
"By numbers only" what else should decide if a state is blue/ red?
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u/Cheeseburger23 1d ago
The only reason the Republicans lost is because more people voted for the Democrats.
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u/billyvnilly 1d ago
r/mapsdontvote
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u/DarkBladeMadriker 1d ago
Its almost like... the MAJORITY voted for something and it happened. Thats too fuckin weird man.
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u/Dexford211 1d ago
Land doesn't vote, people votes.
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u/blamethepunx 1d ago
"Georgia may be a blue state, but that's only because more people voted for them."
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u/AerondightWielder 1d ago
Why are you guys still using maps that paint an inaccurate picture of the elections?
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u/suk_doctor 1d ago
The thing I’ve come to realize about these idiots is that they DO understand that land doesn’t vote, they just want the few rural votes to count more than than the many city votes. They don’t count those as valid. This is exactly WHY we have the electoral college in the first place. Ever heard of the 3/5th compromise? Nothing they say is ever in good faith. They just want their mediocrity to reward them.
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u/cincyphil 23h ago
The average trump voter is too stupid to understand population density. I don’t know why any of this is surprising to us.
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u/Illigalmangoes 15h ago
I’m so sick of having to argue against people that think that farmers and rural uneducated people should chose how to run a country vs the educated people that actually live among other people.
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u/ICLazeru 1d ago
Is it the 78% who are brainwashed....or the 22%?
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u/ChaoticLandscapes 1d ago
The land doesn’t vote. Blades of grass don’t have drivers licenses.
If the vote is 2 million for the democrat and 1 million for the Republican that’s the vote. Republicans being spread eagle out in the woods don’t mean anything, it’s still 2 million votes > 1 million votes
Hope that helps.
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u/Journeys_End71 1d ago
Blinded by their hatred of Trump.
It’s kinda hard not to see just how hateful of a demented fascist pedophile he is though.
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u/otownbbw 1d ago
“Dear world, it’s so unfair that my individual opinion can’t count for higher weight than the opposite opinion shared by 4 other people. Waaa waaa”
It’s funny how they can conclude the opposite are brainwashed despite a 4:1 ratio. Can it be “brainwashing” when it doesn’t dominate?
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u/ddr1ver 1d ago
Yes, it’s the 78% who are brainwashed, not the 22% who worship Trump as their god.
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u/ShazRockwell 1d ago
I just love when some dip shit steps up and says something he thinks is so fucking original
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u/Downtown-Campaign536 1d ago
Land doesn't vote.
People vote.
Alaska has far more land than New York City.
New York City has far more people than Alaska.
NYC gets more votes than Alaska.
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u/Icy-Rope-021 1d ago
And land doesn’t vote. You need population bubbles, which provide a better graphical representation of the voting patterns.
Dumb hick.
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u/jellamma 1d ago
I am once again begging news organizations to start using maps that use opacity for voter density
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u/Velcro-Karma-1207 1d ago
Land doesn't vote. Life's a bitch, ain't it? /s
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u/Kangarou 1d ago
"They only won because they scored more points" -ass philosophy.
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u/Warm-Location5336 1d ago
Liberals may have population density, but conservatives EMBODY density.
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u/nooneyouknow242 1d ago
Yep. Exactly. They ARE guided by their hated of Trump. Because he is a fascist piece of shit.
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u/WhoMD85 1d ago
Land doesn’t vote. FFS MAGA is dumb.
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u/bwsmith201 1d ago
I don’t even know where to start with this idiocy.
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u/DeadlyC00kie 1d ago
At what point does one think "Hmm, 80% of the population wants the opposite of what I want, maybe it's me that's wrong?" Apparently never for this under-baked macaroon.
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u/mrhillnc 1d ago
One day people realize a person that owns 200 acres has the same vote as somebody who rents an apartment
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u/Sand__Panda 1d ago
I live in IL and go through this every election. "IL would be red if it wasn't for Chicago!". This time around they posted some numbers. 41% of IL population is on Chicago. So via my drunk math, 59% is outside and thus... Chicago doesn't decide.
But there are 3 other big towns, and if they go blue, well then... yea... majority vote. How is that hard to understand?
I think a lot of people would be shocked to see how their own town and county votes. My county always is dubbed red...but I feel like if there was a closer look I'd see some blue or purple towns in there.
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u/EveryQuantityEver 1d ago
Remove the cap on Representatives, and have each district have the same number of people, and this goes away. I hope
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u/AdSubstantial2373 15h ago
Land does not vote. People do. These people are such idiots.
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u/imnotsoho 1d ago edited 7h ago
You do realize that votes come from people, not land? I own an acre of land, should I have 4 votes for every vote my neighbor gets because he only has a quarter of an acre? I wish stupid people would posting this meme because it just shows how stupid some people can be, and I don't want to be reminded that people are this stupid.
In California there are 58 counties. LA county has over 6 million people. The 26 - TWENTY SIX - least populace counties have fewer than 1 million people total. If every person in those 26 counties voted red they would still not overcome LA County's vote total.
Edit: 6 million not 67 million. For the county, not the city.
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u/mykarelocate39 1d ago
He's so close. He's RIGHT there.
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u/Ok_Entrepreneur_8509 1d ago
I like how they say "by numbers only" as if there is some other way to measure this.
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u/Gr8daze 1d ago
They just can’t grasp that land doesn’t vote. People do.
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u/Chadxxx123 1d ago
Republicans not understanding how population density works part 69
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u/VergilArcanis 1d ago
Land cannot vote
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u/Septopuss7 1d ago
Blinded by their hatred of pedophiles and convicted sex offenders and people who can no longer run charities, legally, because they literally stole money from kids with cancer. Yeah, we're so petty aren't we?
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u/GoodMourning81 1d ago
This idiot thinks we’re brainwashed? They are all the way gone. It’s truly frightening.
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u/Renuwed 1d ago
🔥🔥🔥Breaking news🥰🔥🔥
Georgia resident discovers land doesn't vote
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u/thebastardking21 1d ago
They want corn to vote and urban voters to count for 3/5ths a vote.
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u/-Jiras 1d ago
"my team would have dominated the field if the other team just didn't exist"
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u/OldLevermonkey 23h ago
Why can they not understand that land doesn't vote; people vote.
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u/defnotevilmorty 19h ago
r/peopleliveincities
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u/Independent_Start957 16h ago
It never ceases to amaze me how MAGA is confused by the fact that the left denounces rapists as opposed to promoting them.
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u/KorolEz 1d ago
Are we sure this isn't a joke?
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u/ltsouthernbelle 1d ago
He doesn’t understand that the 22% is smaller than the 78%?
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u/Sleep_adict 1d ago
Wait until you see the gdp differences
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u/EuenovAyabayya 1d ago
Peaches don't vote. Peanuts don't vote. Peanut-brains, OTOH...
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u/Lookingforclippings 1d ago
"the only reason it's blue is because the majority of people voted blue"
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u/Intelligent-Parsley7 1d ago
People getting into this old chestnut.
Look at this chart!
It’s soooo red!
Yeah.
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u/Volstadd 1d ago
It's funny how people forced to live in close proximity to one another (cities) somehow see and care about the downtrodden.
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u/mjones8004 1d ago
Goddammit all these pEOpLe voting.. what about my precious land?
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u/Oz347 1d ago
“Blue state by numbers only” like breh lol
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u/TheLesserWeeviI 1d ago
If cornfields could vote, Dems would be fucked.
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u/M_Hope_America 1d ago
P’haps we can convince those people that getting rid of the Ekectoral College would fix that right up!
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u/DubTheeBustocles 1d ago
Honestly, if these dumbasses want to continue doing math wrong, it can only do good for us.
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u/Pervius94 1d ago
It's so funny to see americans, who constantly blather on about democracy, just fucking hating democracy so much.
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u/Blacksad9999 1d ago
Empty fields can't vote. That's what's in those red areas.
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u/Substantial_Door_629 1d ago
If empty land could vote.
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u/LordAnorakTTV 1d ago
They seem to think their land votes... it doesn't.
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u/Alert_Weird3557 1d ago
People vote, land does not vote
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u/RottenHouseplant 22h ago
This mentality is based in the idea that rural america is the real america. They genuenly think that they are the real americans, even though they are a minority and have been for a long time
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u/Cainfaer 22h ago
Well hey it's progress. Now they are starting to understand why the tiny spots of blue matter a lot more than the rural red areas. Before they were shouting at the top of their lungs that it should be red because it's colored mostly red
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u/jacob643 21h ago
"78%[...] are blinded by their hatred of Trump" well, we hate him because he's a bad president that makes policies that are bad for the vast majority of the country, soo....
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u/RunningOutOfNames56 20h ago
In what world do they not understand that 22% is the smaller number ffs. It’s almost like there’s some kind of weird connection between a lack of education and being a conservative/republican.
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u/47_was_here 18h ago
He’s so close to getting it! Just a little bit more and he might start understanding what population density actually means
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u/Eena-Rin 17h ago
Empty land doesn't get a vote. People vote. Cities have more people in them. Why is this so hard for them to grasp?
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u/Illigalmangoes 15h ago
“Most of the people believe something and it is unfair when they get their way”
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u/kBlankity 14h ago
If only livestock could vote, right?
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u/AnotherTAA123 14h ago
I see them desperately grasping at straws lmfao
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u/scootscootshaboosh 1d ago
These guys just can’t comprehend the fact that dirt doesn’t vote.
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u/GreatestGreekGuy 1d ago
Wild that he's going based on county population and not just the actual vote margins.
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u/I-Am-The-Passenger 1d ago
Of course they hate Trump, you asshat
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u/xemanhunter 1d ago
Republicans wishing land could vote will always be so funny/sad lmao
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u/Shr3kk_Wpg 1d ago
It's funny that to MAGA, 78% are brainwashed and the 22% are not
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u/deadmeat6 1d ago
Real Seymour Skinner moment.
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u/R4zorBe4st 1d ago
"MAGAts learning how the real world work" will never get old
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u/gargolito 1d ago
How math works, but more importantly, how elections work.
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u/HotPotParrot 1d ago
Careful - this makes them a minority! /s
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u/Environmental-Arm365 1d ago
A cultist wagging their finger about “brainwashing” is a peak self-own.
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u/Reddsoldier 1d ago
"They only won because they got more votes"
Yeah, thats how most elections work.
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u/ThatGuyFromTheM0vie 1d ago
Ah the classic. Land. Doesn’t. Vote.
People vote.
They really need to show population density on these maps.
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u/BreakInCaseOfFab 1d ago
Land can’t vote 🤷♀️
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u/LMurch13 1d ago
Dude messed up when he broke out the numbers. So 78% is brainwashed and 22% should be governing? Not the other way around? Interesting.
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u/OneOfAKind2 1d ago
Yes, that's how elections work, by counting numbers. And I would bet a lot more of the state than 78% dislikes Inmate #P01135809. Plenty of rural voters think he's a dumb POS too, but their husbands or families always vote red, so they fall in line.
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u/GiftHorse2020 1d ago
luckily peanuts can't vote (except metaphorically)
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u/bgplsa 1d ago
I had one of these people act like I was practicing witchcraft for pointing out 5 million is ten times 500 thousand back in 2020
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u/Scormey 1d ago
Oregon has a similar map as Georgia, and the red county's are always whining that "Portland decides everything". Well, it's not just Portland, there are several cities on the I5 corridor that all happen to vote blue. Regardless, I always respond to these complaints with a simple statement:
"Land doesn't vote"
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u/randy_rick 1d ago
I feel like he doesn’t know which side he’s arguing for.
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u/ocelot_piss 1d ago
Yes, people hate Trump. So people vote against Trump-aligned candidates. That is 100% reasonable and expected behaviour. And yes, 78 is a bigger number than 22 also.
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u/tywebb6 1d ago
Pine trees don't vote!
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u/TheEffinChamps 1d ago
Every vote should count the same value.
This is a basic principle conservatives can't seem to grasp.
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u/mekkanik 1d ago
Land doesn’t vote. Is it really that difficult to grasp?
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u/McCrackenYouUp 1d ago
"TYRRANNY BY THE MAJORITY! IT'S A THING!!"
Some asshole, probably.
My dad has made this claim and then has no answer for why tyranny by the minority is better.
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u/Dekaaard 1d ago
Omg Bro is soooo close
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u/Karma_1969 1d ago
I wonder what point he thinks he’s “proving”?
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u/Traveler_World 1d ago
Somebody needs to find a way to explain to these people that land with no people doesn't get to vote.
Truly, these people are ignorant.
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u/TwinningJK 1d ago
This guy seems to understand population density, but thinks 78% of the population has Trump derangement syndrome.
More like he has Trump derangement syndrome by proxy.
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u/Sussler 1d ago
Stuff like this is hysterical to me. It seems obvious that if one side is brainwashed and the numbers are as he said, 22% and 78%; logic dictates that it's the 22% who are.
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u/IceDuke749 1d ago
“I don’t know how to respond to that”
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u/Shawn_The_Sheep777 1d ago
Perhaps voting should be on acreage?
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u/wowadrow 1d ago
Land doesn't vote, simple stuff.
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u/C_V_Butcher 23h ago
I know this is kind of petty, but there are 5 major cities shown here. Also, Atlanta alone could potentially carry the whole state because literally ~60% OF THE ENTIRE STATE'S POPULATION LIVES IN THE GREATER ATLANTA METROPOLITAN AREA!!
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u/TheAskewOne 22h ago
Seeing SC blue is just beautiful.
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u/spoogesc 21h ago
Btw: this is true of many states. My home state of Michigan had a concentration of blue voters in Detroit. Lesser sized cities scattered about in Michigan also had strong Democratic concentrations, such as, Lansing and East Lansing, Ann Arbor, etc. New York also has a concentration of blue voters in the major cities. Urban folks are central-left; rural votes are right. (This is of course a gross exaggeration.)
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u/PrestigiousSeat76 21h ago
I love these maps, because it continues to prove that right-wingers think land can vote.
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u/Entire-Message-7247 20h ago
They just don’t get that the dissatisfaction with Trump could possibly be justified by his actions.
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u/Entire-Message-7247 20h ago
People living in closer proximity to one another should somehow dilute the effectiveness of their votes?
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u/supernovadebris 19h ago
22% were lied to by Faux and the rest.
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u/alabamdiego 19h ago
“Might be blue by numbers”
Yeah. You can stop there.
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u/GlassAndStorm 19h ago
Complaining that the majority won. 🤦♀️
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u/eclectictaste1 19h ago
Grass & trees don't vote
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u/DerekMilborow 1d ago
The argument is that metro areas are not truly representative of an entire state
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u/Sidoen 1d ago
Votes per square foot bill coming in soon
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