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These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,... whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.

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[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

If Trump loses there are the next two months of wondering how many people will die around the inauguration, then the next two years of wondering what the project 2027 people are going to do, then...

The only way to stop this is to fix the US system. Fix the courts. Fix the elections. Fix gerrymandering. Fix the right wing control of the media. Fix the lies from the "news".

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago
[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Only in the United States. Canada solved the problem years ago.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure there is a perfectly solution. Mapmen cover it very well (and it's funny as always).

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Canada has an independent electoral commision that sets electoral boundaries, mostly on geographic borders, like county lines. My electoral district, for example, is Leed, the Grenville, the Thousand Islands, and Rideau Lakes and encompases those four geographic districts. It can also be done by a computer using maximum n-sided polygons with equal populations.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

You didn't MapMen. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ You can't just do it on population numbers because minorities can end up completely unrepresented. You have to include more factors than just population numbers. But it certainty should be kept apart from politicians, and it be criminal for them to rig it....

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

As a Canadian I always forget to take the racist factor into account.

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