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AsGryffynn on 04 November 2020
sethnintendo said:
Last post I do here. I'll just say fuck the electoral college and fuck winner takes all. I've voted in 4 elections and my vote has never counted. My vote has never counted.

You voted against Obama twice?! 



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Rab on 04 November 2020

I so wished Bernie was in this race, Biden doesn't have the enthusiasm



sethnintendo on 04 November 2020
AsGryffynn said:
sethnintendo said:
Last post I do here. I'll just say fuck the electoral college and fuck winner takes all. I've voted in 4 elections and my vote has never counted. My vote has never counted.

You voted against Obama twice?! 

I'm in texas. My vote has never counted.



jason1637 on 04 November 2020
shikamaru317 said:
Counting in the remaining swing states has slowed to a total crawl now, sigh.

Some are pretty much done counting til 5am or 8am. Probably time to call it a night after Trump speaks.



vivster on 04 November 2020
LurkerJ said:
vivster said:

And here I thought I couldn't be happier to not live in the US.

I might have been wrong with claiming only a small minority of US citizens are Nazis.

At least it can't be sexism this time around. 

Yep, it's something way worse.



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sethnintendo on 04 November 2020
shikamaru317 said:
sethnintendo said:

I'm in texas. My vote has never counted.

As a conservative living in Virginia, a blue state, I could say the same thing. Virginia's electoral votes are still going to Biden even though I can't stand him. We still have 2 Democrat senators in spite of my votes against them. Both my district's State Delegate and US Representative would have won even without my vote because I live in a very red part of the state. So technically my votes don't "count", but I still feel privileged to get to vote, sadly there are still people in the world who don't get that right. 

That's why I like multiparty proportional representation.   It's what most other countries do but we are winner takes all so throws out all votes of losers.



vivster on 04 November 2020

I feel reminded of school a lot. I remember when I asked my history teacher why dictators would bother to hold elections at all, since it could only threaten their reign. My teacher surprised me by saying that dictators absolutely love elections because it legitimizes them. She was absolutely right. Also showed me how elections aren't necessarily a sign that you live in a democracy.



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jason1637 on 04 November 2020

Lol GOP winning the house popular vote currently but Dems are keeping the house.



vivster on 04 November 2020

Ok, let's get into premature damage control. I'll start.

Even if Biden had won, he would've faced a GOP Senate blocking everything. So his loss doesn't really matter.



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Astral on 04 November 2020

It seems like Trump has this. The map looks very similar to the 2016 election except for Arizona.
The result of the election does not affect me directly, but I was hoping for a change. In general, I've always thought the politics of the Democratic party in the middle east were more moderate, things were kind of moving in the right directions here by the end of Obama's presidential period. Oh well.. This is not about me. So, best of luck to USA citizens. I hope you know what you are doing.