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eniwetok

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17. I should add....

Mon Feb 20, 2017, 03:16 PM

Feb 2017

In our system we can have

100% public financing of elections
100% voter participation
100% vote count accuracy

and

The EC can still over turn the popular vote

States with 18% of the US population still gets 52% of the Seats in the Senate where they'll have a veto over anything coming out of the House

States with 4% of the US population can block any amendment yet states with 40% can ratify any amendment.

The system is not just antidemocratic but essentially reform proof... and no one wants to discuss these defects.

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The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine [View all] drm604 Feb 2017 OP

Steve Bannon is on the board of Cambridge Analytics flamingdem Feb 2017 #1

Very scary. drm604 Feb 2017 #2

Not that scary. It's a technique of disseminating messages. It's not going away. Democrats need KittyWampus Feb 2017 #6

It is scary. drm604 Feb 2017 #9

No interest in this? drm604 Feb 2017 #3

Damn. Tactical Peek Feb 2017 #4

Kick drm604 Feb 2017 #5

If you think the DNC isn't also doing this then dagnuguy Feb 2017 #7

Then why did they lose? drm604 Feb 2017 #8

They've lost because the system is antidemocratic.... eniwetok Feb 2017 #12

I understand all that, but those things just make this kind of manipulation easier. drm604 Feb 2017 #14

Sure the GOP will use every trick in the book.... eniwetok Feb 2017 #16

I should add.... eniwetok Feb 2017 #17

The DNC may want to........ BruceWane Feb 2017 #10

It may be that conservative voters are easier to manipulate. drm604 Feb 2017 #13

except a piece on Cambridge Analytics pointed to data finding Haitian immigrants and targeting them KittyWampus Feb 2017 #15

The DNC has no long term goals... the Right does. eniwetok Feb 2017 #11

Exactly. drm604 Feb 2017 #18

read it years ago... eniwetok Feb 2017 #19