• dnick@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    To be fair, it is the united ´states´, not the united ´people living on the continent´. It wouldn’t be any more fair if California was making the decisions for 20 other states, just because they happen to have a crap load of people. The federal government is kind of supposed to be making decisions and maintaining things between states, not all these decisions affecting the people so directly.

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      7 hours ago

      No, it would be fair if California and the 20 other states had the same say. Laws should be by people, for people. Every person should have the same voting power and political representation. In a democracy, people vote, not land, or “states”, or anything else. People.

    • ronalicious@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      to be fair? fuck that. the states represent people, just arguing ‘states rights’ is disingenuous at this point.

      land shouldn’t vote, but the way our government currently is functioning, regardless of what our slaveholding ‘founding fathers’ intended, is an absolute mess.

      and I don’t accept your argument in good faith.

      edit. a word

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      Electorates per capita work better because they give the population of a country an equal amount of electable government. Positioning them as just Californians makes them a lower class citizen of the United States with lesser representation.

      It also means that criminals will recognise the power of the Republican states and side with them for effect.

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      10 hours ago

      It wouldn’t be any more fair if California was making the decisions for 20 other states

      U wot