By precentage

What happens when its part of a percent of a seat?

The senate has only 100 people in it

2 for each state

When you get multiple parties that have less than 50% of the vote who gets the seat?

okay... how it is roughly done in germany: the parties get their seats based on their voting percentage (you get 30% of the votes, you get 30% of the seats)

these seats get filled with the candidates that won their district

In Canada you get members of parliament per riding, so when you have the inevitable minority you have to barter with another party for a coalition

But I think the issue with the US is that the population is super unevenly distributed. Where like 4 cities would decide the course of the country if you did seats by % of votes

after that it gets filled up to roughly meet the initial percentage (really complicated math is used there, so i'm not going to try and explain it... but the end result is roughly 1% of votes equals 1% of seats)

sure, might need adjustments for the us - but the current system in the us is just stupid 😛

Current system in the US has worked well in not allowing our city dwelling population to overrun what they refer to as flyover states

in terms of representation at least

i did not say that it was always stupid 😉

from the perspective of when it was implemented it makes sense

the main problem i have with it is that it suppresses the votes of people in non-swing-states

which means that you traded "4 cities decide" for "florida decides" 😉

I have more faith in the state of florida to pick a leader than I do 4 cities

But thats the presidental election

this is normal legislative elections as far as i can tell

hey, if you want to live in two party system that is so great as we can see, be my guest 👌

you have faith in "florida man"? 😄

do you not?

hes the best superhero

isn't he more of supervillain?

He's an antihero

i can go along with that 😄

@Reactor how does it feel to be in youtube history as the madlad who made a british fuck with MS paint and a shitty phone mic ragequit

Obviously a biased editorial (it's a right-leaning blog and the writer works to promote armed self-defense), but a nice takedown of CNN nonetheless. Plus crosses nicely into recent events. Including Stand-Your-Ground in CA.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/07/cnn-mangles-stand-your-ground-law-yet-again/

“ New York Times publishers and Trump clash over President’s threats against journalism “

Sulzberger dishonestly conflates Trump saying that “ The FAKE NEWS media” is “ the enemy of the people “ to mean that Trump said journalist in general are the enemy.This is why the fake news media is the enemy. They constantly lie and distort the truth.
http://archive.today/mApTQ

@pratel that was a pretty savage takedown.

“ Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA” by Glenn Greenwald on The Guardian

The CIA leaked classified information to the Director of Zero Dark Thirty to help craft propaganda to help Obama in the 2012 election. This article details the CIA working directly with the New York Times to prevent this from being know. The editor sent the article in advance for approval by their CIA handlers.

http://archive.today/ZX5ib
https://www.scribd.com/document/104180865/Advance-Maureen-Dowd-Piece

“ Downgrade Blues” by Maureen Dowd on The New York Times

This is the article that NYT sent to the CIA for pre approval. The CIA worked closely with the media to obfuscate their involvement in the movie Zero Dark Thirty. A movie the CIA used as propaganda to cast the Obama administrations foreign policy in a positive light to help him in the 2012 election.

I’ve provided the article and the declassification CIA emails, so you can see for yourselves.

http://archive.today/Z8HAw
https://www.scribd.com/document/104180865/Advance-Maureen-Dowd-Piece

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/31/afghan-migrant-whose-deportation-was-thwarted-by-hero-swedish-student-was-actually-sentenced-for-assault.html

@Atkins whomp whomp

Insert "I love refugees, I love refugees, I love refugees" meme

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-205049/Women-work-longer-hours-men.html

Article says women work 34 hours a week and men work 44.8 hours.

XD ITS REAL

Someone is bad at math.

yeah that memes been posted here like 20 times in the past 2 days