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First of all: I'm actually 100% on board with fixing the problem with the Electoral College, but you misidentified it. The fundamental flaw is that it has become (almost immediately in 1789) winner-take-all. Allocate electors the same way we allocate House or Senate seats, and the problem goes...

Which is exactly what Delaware wanted back in 1789: a vote that is meaningful and not guaranteed to always be outvoted. And the same applies for today's smaller states. What you are missing is that what distinguishes a democracy from other forms of government is protection for those who aren't...

Already answered above: It happened before Trump, and probably is continuing today. The report targeted the Trump era because the investigation started in 2018, and most of the records only go back two years. There was evidence that this practice went back to at least 2014, probably 2008 (and...

Sure, you could. But I was wondering, why would you in a place like northern Germany, where water is abundant? Seems easier to release the water into the nearest creek, and grab fresh water as process input. Release the water purified, of course, but you would have to do that either way.

First of all, mining generally generates huge amounts of waste. sometimes solid, sometimes not. For instance, tailings from coal mining in Pennsylvania: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Coal_waste_pile_west_of_Trevorton%2C_Pennsylvania_far_shot_2.JPG The alternative is not...

Come on, it was just the extension of a joke, you don't have to take it so literal. Of course I know that Mars wasn't the destination. BTW, I meant to only link to the picture, grabbed the article link by accident.

Exactly the point. That would mean that Los Angeles County (and a few other large cities) would be the only ones with political power. (Plus, I acknowledge the correction from @Hack-n-Slash that it was actually all of California, not just LA).

Bingo. Voters cast votes the way they believe is best. Not the way some politician tells them. If a politician wants voters to vote a particular way, it's up to the politician to convince the voters. In the end, it's simple: I'm not telling you that your vote for Hillary was wrong. You...

That is plain false. It wouldn't make sense because the states that benefited from this arrangement were in the north, Delaware and Rhode Island in particular. The states in the south, which were mostly larger, actually lost power. Virginia (slave-holding) was the most populous state at the...

Thanks for that correction. I must have confused the LA and the California numbers. She won California by over 4 million votes, far more than her nationwide advantage.

Same goes for the OP's Sanders claim, though.

I wonder if the DEA is told to "back off" when it's the military or the WH doing the ordering.

That part actually isn't true, or is misleading. Senators and Representatives (not sure about the President, but probably the same) get the same health care plan as the receptionist for the BLM office in Podunk, nowhere. It is said to be about as good as most other employer-sponsored health plans.

He's getting there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster#/media/File:Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster_(40143096241).jpg

Delivery vehicles require specialized expertise. That's why many of them come from manufacturers you have never even heard of (they often buy the powertrains and frame from Ford or GM, and then build their own vehicles around that). For a niche manufacturer, it's probably wise to avoid branching...

Or the Semi. Or Full Self Driving.

It's him having to replenish his wealth after wasting $44 billion on the dead site formerly known as Twitter.

That is as atrocious as saying "the Jews are bombing Gaza" or "the Jews are shooting teenagers in the West Bank" when it really is the Israeli government, controlled by extremists, or a few extremist settlers, who are doing it, against the opposition of large parts of the population. NEVER...

It did seem to work, though, at least to some extent. Biden, especially early on, was much more in tune with what these voters wanted. And Hillary fans constantly whining about "but she won the popular election" is no different, either.

And that's why no party ever did a get-out-the-vote drive, right? Staying home is a very good way to get heard.