Ok first of all, you’re coming off like kind of a dick, so maybe like, don’t.
But the principle of democracy is that everybody of age have a vote. Same as in other democracies.
Oh but that’s the really fun part, the US doesn’t have that. The EC that other person was talking about the the Electoral College.
See, the founding fathers thought that hey, even though the only people who vote are land owning white dudes, what if those yokels want to vote in someone bad? So they made the Electoral College. Basically each state has a certain amount of, well, guys, who aren’t really chosen by the voters, and they cast the vote for President. The more people in the state the more people that are in the electrical college.
In theory they could go against what the voters want to prevent a fascist from taking over, but usually they just rubber stamp whatever the population of their state votes for as a majority.
This causes some real tricky math, so some states have more influence over the election than others, and, sometimes, someone can lose the “popular vote” (how the citizens actually voted) and still win the presidency because they won the EC votes in the right states.
Basically this is why Ohio secretly controls the global powers.
Basically this is why Ohio secretly controls the global powers.
The Senate is a great way to show how distorted things are.
For example: Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas, combined, have less people in them than California, which has 39 million in it.
But Cali gets 2 senators. Those states get 16, even if, combined, they have less than half the population of California.
Maybe cool off a bit? That person isn’t even using a standard acronym as far as I know, I’m American and I can’t recall ever seeing the Electoral College abbreviated as EC.
That being said, while I get your point about Americans in general assuming people online understand America-centric terms, a forum discussing US politics is the one place where that assumption isn’t out of place.
I’m not American and I could see what EC meant by context. But it’s cool to ask and learn.
Regarding the ‘Donvict’, yeah - kinda stupid. I think these types of name calling are immature. But even more annoyingly, they do seem to work especially on the mouth breathers who might vote for trump. It’s just an association/feeling for them, so logic is irrelevant and these stupid word games can actually sink in. And ‘convict’ is also a verb. And it also raises the mental image of a ‘convicted’ person.
In fairness, people don’t shorten it to EC, I just used context clues.
And, also in fairness, Americans aren’t going about, trying to get people to learn what inches are. It’s just that, at the moment, our culture is the most influential. It’s not exactly your average American person’s fault you watch movies made here, Internet videos made here, read book from here, or have to use the dollar for international trade.
Sorry your country isn’t as culturally influential at the moment, but it’s not like most of us asked for this. Most of us don’t even want this, hell we almost switched to metric and somehow that got dropped.
So like, what’s something cool about your country everyone should know about?
The first time we almost switched to metric, back in the 1700s or early 1800s, pirates attacked the ship that was bringing us our Kg weight and our Meter Stick, and they stole them.
Sorry your country isn’t as culturally influential at the moment, but it’s not like most of us asked for this. Most of us don’t even want this, hell we almost switched to metric and somehow that got dropped.
LOL, as someone that was told in my elementary school years that we were going to switch to metric, I still shake my head at how stupid it is that we continue with it.
I absolutely loathed doing any kind of homework or problems in math that used imperial units. For the longest time, I hoped that cars putting in km/h and sneaking in “2 liters” for soda was a way of starting to sneak it into the brains of the resistant, but so far, it has not happened…
It’s a great way to highlight just how insular America can be to the point of just basically kicking ourselves in the balls. Here’s a great example of money lost; I could tell you stories about companies I’ve been at and the provisioning they would do for things they were building in other countries and this dumb measurement system still being an issue…
The other example is of course anything that has the word “socialism” in it or health care or correctional systems, etc. Lawd forbid we learn anything from anyone else…we are AMERICA! USA! USA! The metric system was created in France! I mean, France?!!!
Ok first of all, you’re coming off like kind of a dick, so maybe like, don’t.
Oh but that’s the really fun part, the US doesn’t have that. The EC that other person was talking about the the Electoral College.
See, the founding fathers thought that hey, even though the only people who vote are land owning white dudes, what if those yokels want to vote in someone bad? So they made the Electoral College. Basically each state has a certain amount of, well, guys, who aren’t really chosen by the voters, and they cast the vote for President. The more people in the state the more people that are in the electrical college.
In theory they could go against what the voters want to prevent a fascist from taking over, but usually they just rubber stamp whatever the population of their state votes for as a majority.
This causes some real tricky math, so some states have more influence over the election than others, and, sometimes, someone can lose the “popular vote” (how the citizens actually voted) and still win the presidency because they won the EC votes in the right states.
Basically this is why Ohio secretly controls the global powers.
The Senate is a great way to show how distorted things are.
For example: Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas, combined, have less people in them than California, which has 39 million in it.
But Cali gets 2 senators. Those states get 16, even if, combined, they have less than half the population of California.
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Maybe cool off a bit? That person isn’t even using a standard acronym as far as I know, I’m American and I can’t recall ever seeing the Electoral College abbreviated as EC.
That being said, while I get your point about Americans in general assuming people online understand America-centric terms, a forum discussing US politics is the one place where that assumption isn’t out of place.
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I’m not American and I could see what EC meant by context. But it’s cool to ask and learn.
Regarding the ‘Donvict’, yeah - kinda stupid. I think these types of name calling are immature. But even more annoyingly, they do seem to work especially on the mouth breathers who might vote for trump. It’s just an association/feeling for them, so logic is irrelevant and these stupid word games can actually sink in. And ‘convict’ is also a verb. And it also raises the mental image of a ‘convicted’ person.
In fairness, people don’t shorten it to EC, I just used context clues.
And, also in fairness, Americans aren’t going about, trying to get people to learn what inches are. It’s just that, at the moment, our culture is the most influential. It’s not exactly your average American person’s fault you watch movies made here, Internet videos made here, read book from here, or have to use the dollar for international trade.
Sorry your country isn’t as culturally influential at the moment, but it’s not like most of us asked for this. Most of us don’t even want this, hell we almost switched to metric and somehow that got dropped.
So like, what’s something cool about your country everyone should know about?
The first time we almost switched to metric, back in the 1700s or early 1800s, pirates attacked the ship that was bringing us our Kg weight and our Meter Stick, and they stole them.
I’m not even joking.
That’s pretty cool actually thanks for sharing
LOL, as someone that was told in my elementary school years that we were going to switch to metric, I still shake my head at how stupid it is that we continue with it.
I absolutely loathed doing any kind of homework or problems in math that used imperial units. For the longest time, I hoped that cars putting in km/h and sneaking in “2 liters” for soda was a way of starting to sneak it into the brains of the resistant, but so far, it has not happened…
It’s a great way to highlight just how insular America can be to the point of just basically kicking ourselves in the balls. Here’s a great example of money lost; I could tell you stories about companies I’ve been at and the provisioning they would do for things they were building in other countries and this dumb measurement system still being an issue…
https://everydayastronaut.com/mars-climate-orbiter/
The other example is of course anything that has the word “socialism” in it or health care or correctional systems, etc. Lawd forbid we learn anything from anyone else…we are AMERICA! USA! USA! The metric system was created in France! I mean, France?!!!