Post #4915639 · Elektrine

2026-09-25 23:41 UTC

A better analogy Counting the votes- pepperoni wins. There’s a lot of vegetarians but they don’t make up an absolute majority so their needs are ignored. Counting the votes at each table- cheese wins, because even the two huge tables want pepperoni, many of the smaller tables are mostly vegetarians who don’t eat pepperoni. This is why the electoral college is still relevant- to ensure that urban voters don’t bowl over suburban or rural voters who deserve to have a say in government too. Dividing each table into groups then adding them together- that’s a scam by a pepperoni fan because they will ensure every group has 5 known pepperoni lovers and 2 others.

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@Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-26 00:04

Isn’t the House and the Senate already skewed in rural areas favor? Do urban voters really need to be kneecapped all across government?

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@AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2026-09-27 01:30

Okay, but cheese does not win in this system because pepperoni lovers can tolerate it while vegetarians cannot eat pepperoni. Nor does it win because minorities are getting more representation in general. Cheese wins here purely because you’ve arranged the voting system to give more power to the ones you wanted to win. Dividing each table into groups then adding them together- that’s a scam by a pepperoni fan because they will ensure every group has 5 known pepperoni lovers and 2 others. If it’s possible to ensure such majority of pepperoni lovers in every single group, then pepperoni lovers have an overall majority. They don’t need scams to win. In fact - you’d need scams to prevent them from winning.

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