(September 17, 2024 at 2:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 17, 2024 at 2:08 pm)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: I don't give a damn about what bunch of dudes in wigs thought (or wigs were already passe back then?). System they designed tramples over will of the people and thus I deem it to be nothing more than pile of shit. If you don't agree then, well. You're just some random whose words hold no relevance to my opinions about politics.
Of COURSE the EC system tramples over the will of the people. It’s a lousy, outdated system and needs to be either abolished or changed to require the EC vote to mirror the popular vote. But it’s neither shady nor corrupt - it’s simply wrong.
And it seems to me that you care a very great deal ‘about what [a] bunch of dudes in wigs thought’.
Boru
And exactly because it tramples over said will it is both shady and corrupt. I don't require you to agree but your proclamations will have no effect.
What seems to you and what is the truth are wildly different things but whatever helps you sleep I guess.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates.
Mikhail Bakunin.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates.