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[+] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 2 years ago (3 children) I'm in the USA and we're a garbage country. Don't get me wrong, there are good areas and good people. But our broken system allows the craziest minority to have an outsized degree of power and they absolutely take advantage of it. How a state like Wyoming, with fewer than a million people, can get as much say (in the senate) as my state of California is beyond me. We have almost 80x their population, yet they get an equal number of senators. I want a revolution that adjusts their voice to be proportional to their goddamned size. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [+] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) Did you miss civics class? Having both a senate and a house was a compromise between the smaller and bigger states. Small states could have been railroaded by bigger states with strictly proportional representation. It's almost like you're repeating something you heard without thinking about it much... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago It's a stupid compromise to make. It might have made some sense at the time, when society expected them to behave as gentlemen with regard for their honor. Now a much smaller group gets to bully the rest of the country as a result. permalink fedilink source parent [+] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] ThrowawayInTheYear23@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Do we really need 50 states and territories in this era? If we must have them we could divide and merge based on population similar to the slate article. https://slate.com/culture/2014/10/if-every-u-s-state-had-the-same-population-what-would-the-map-of-america-look-like.html permalink fedilink source parent
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 2 years ago (3 children) I'm in the USA and we're a garbage country. Don't get me wrong, there are good areas and good people. But our broken system allows the craziest minority to have an outsized degree of power and they absolutely take advantage of it. How a state like Wyoming, with fewer than a million people, can get as much say (in the senate) as my state of California is beyond me. We have almost 80x their population, yet they get an equal number of senators. I want a revolution that adjusts their voice to be proportional to their goddamned size. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [+] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) Did you miss civics class? Having both a senate and a house was a compromise between the smaller and bigger states. Small states could have been railroaded by bigger states with strictly proportional representation. It's almost like you're repeating something you heard without thinking about it much... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago It's a stupid compromise to make. It might have made some sense at the time, when society expected them to behave as gentlemen with regard for their honor. Now a much smaller group gets to bully the rest of the country as a result. permalink fedilink source parent [+] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] ThrowawayInTheYear23@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Do we really need 50 states and territories in this era? If we must have them we could divide and merge based on population similar to the slate article. https://slate.com/culture/2014/10/if-every-u-s-state-had-the-same-population-what-would-the-map-of-america-look-like.html permalink fedilink source parent
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[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) Did you miss civics class? Having both a senate and a house was a compromise between the smaller and bigger states. Small states could have been railroaded by bigger states with strictly proportional representation. It's almost like you're repeating something you heard without thinking about it much... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago It's a stupid compromise to make. It might have made some sense at the time, when society expected them to behave as gentlemen with regard for their honor. Now a much smaller group gets to bully the rest of the country as a result. permalink fedilink source parent [+] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago It's a stupid compromise to make. It might have made some sense at the time, when society expected them to behave as gentlemen with regard for their honor. Now a much smaller group gets to bully the rest of the country as a result. permalink fedilink source parent
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[–] ThrowawayInTheYear23@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Do we really need 50 states and territories in this era? If we must have them we could divide and merge based on population similar to the slate article. https://slate.com/culture/2014/10/if-every-u-s-state-had-the-same-population-what-would-the-map-of-america-look-like.html permalink fedilink source parent