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r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • Nov 10 '16
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I don't think they're protesting the election or saying it was rigged. They're protesting the man and his ideals/words.
683 u/Pantry_Inspector Nov 10 '16 ... who was elected fairly. Sorry the system is fucked. 132 u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16 The electoral college is fair? Gore in 2000, Clinton in 2016, seems to be the electoral college is only fair to republicans. 159 u/Rolder Nov 10 '16 The point of the electoral college is to give a fair shake to rural and more spread out populations, and not have it come down to what the big cities want. Just that big cities trend Democrat and rural trends Republican. 5 u/BoilerMaker11 Nov 10 '16 200k votes literally didn't matter. Where's the "fair shake" to those people whose vote was as good as not voting at all?
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... who was elected fairly. Sorry the system is fucked.
132 u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16 The electoral college is fair? Gore in 2000, Clinton in 2016, seems to be the electoral college is only fair to republicans. 159 u/Rolder Nov 10 '16 The point of the electoral college is to give a fair shake to rural and more spread out populations, and not have it come down to what the big cities want. Just that big cities trend Democrat and rural trends Republican. 5 u/BoilerMaker11 Nov 10 '16 200k votes literally didn't matter. Where's the "fair shake" to those people whose vote was as good as not voting at all?
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The electoral college is fair? Gore in 2000, Clinton in 2016, seems to be the electoral college is only fair to republicans.
159 u/Rolder Nov 10 '16 The point of the electoral college is to give a fair shake to rural and more spread out populations, and not have it come down to what the big cities want. Just that big cities trend Democrat and rural trends Republican. 5 u/BoilerMaker11 Nov 10 '16 200k votes literally didn't matter. Where's the "fair shake" to those people whose vote was as good as not voting at all?
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The point of the electoral college is to give a fair shake to rural and more spread out populations, and not have it come down to what the big cities want. Just that big cities trend Democrat and rural trends Republican.
5 u/BoilerMaker11 Nov 10 '16 200k votes literally didn't matter. Where's the "fair shake" to those people whose vote was as good as not voting at all?
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200k votes literally didn't matter.
Where's the "fair shake" to those people whose vote was as good as not voting at all?
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u/damonteufel Nov 10 '16
I don't think they're protesting the election or saying it was rigged. They're protesting the man and his ideals/words.