Spyke

Canada's metric. Close enough in much the same way that beef is vegetarian because cows eat grass.

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sh.itjust.works

Yes, the majority of the population in the US is in the northeast, that's why people hate the electoral college system. It gives a significant amount of power to a majority voting minority. A better way to represent a minority would be a ranked choice system.

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Nougatreply
kbin.social

Electoral college vs ranked choice voting is a false dichotomy. You can do one, the other, both, or neither.

The way to eliminating the electoral college, since it is enshrined in the constitution, is either a constitutional amendment changing to a popular vote method (highly unlikely), or the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

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avogadroreply
lemmy.world

And both ways involve the states that benefit from the disproportionate power choosing to give it up.

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Well when you are settling east to west some people don't like taking super long dangerous trips

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Infynisreply
midwest.social

I didn't realize so few people lived in the Northwest. I thought Seattle was bigger than that

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that yellow space has pretty much all the empty space all the way into minnesota. it's all big rocks, missile silos, and prairie dogs.

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It's big, not huge, but there's not a lot of other big cities out west. In terms of metro area population, it falls right in between Detroit and Minneapolis.

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lemmy.world

Americans won’t understand this because our population is measured in metric

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sirxdaemonreply
lemmy.ca

I like how because it's units of Canadas, it's an even 10 parts.

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Slaps US-Canada border

This bad boy can fit so many fucking Canadas in it

We've got: New England Canada, North Atlantic Canada, Mid Atlantic Canada, Florida Canada, Gulf Coast Canada, Rust Belt Canada, Midwest Canada, Southern Canada, California Canada, and All The Rest Canada.

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Plus we can technically fit more in the super north Canada and Island Canada

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