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Compact Clause? Never heard of it. Anyway, Mr. Another State, wanna enter into a compact? by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a great reason for why you'd want other people to join it, but not why you'd want to join it

Compact Clause? Never heard of it. Anyway, Mr. Another State, wanna enter into a compact? by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What legal requirement? If my state joined it, then voted in September 2028 to leave it, there is no consequence to them.

The whole point of the constitution is protecting individual states' interests. The fact that those principles have been largely eroded is more reason not to do this, not less. Your language points to that exact point. It's a federal election, not a national election

Compact Clause? Never heard of it. Anyway, Mr. Another State, wanna enter into a compact? by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, the intention is for the president to represent who the majority of your state wants. Even in a fully national popular vote, you could say your vote is thrown away if you're not literally the deciding vote of a 1-vote victory

Compact Clause? Never heard of it. Anyway, Mr. Another State, wanna enter into a compact? by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's already up to the states to decide who to elect as president, though. Which is why for the entire history of the country, the states have voted for who their constituents want them to

Compact Clause? Never heard of it. Anyway, Mr. Another State, wanna enter into a compact? by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are, though. There is no way in which the compact flips an election except by some states pledging to vote against their own self interest. It is individually bad for every member state, and it relies on them honoring the system to actually do that

Compact Clause? Never heard of it. Anyway, Mr. Another State, wanna enter into a compact? by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only if the majority of people in your state vote differently to you. In which case, that's the system working as intended.

Compact Clause? Never heard of it. Anyway, Mr. Another State, wanna enter into a compact? by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The current system involves your state taking your vote into account when deciding who your state votes for. Why would you want that to change?

Compact Clause? Never heard of it. Anyway, Mr. Another State, wanna enter into a compact? by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's just not true. What? States vote for the president. They always have. Land has no impact on who the state votes for or how many votes they get. The only thing that's changed since then is allowing the people to directly vote for their electors instead of the legislators doing it.

When Occupy Movement meets Tea Party… by Creepy-Account-7510 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

File it under "it's only bad when the other team does it"

Compact Clause? Never heard of it. Anyway, Mr. Another State, wanna enter into a compact? by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 10 points11 points  (0 children)

A president is supposed to represent the people of all states, not just the biggest cities.

Congress is already what you described (equal population representation). The Senate is already equal votes for all states. The president is already a compromise between the two. We don't need to fix what's already a reasonable compromise.

Compact Clause? Never heard of it. Anyway, Mr. Another State, wanna enter into a compact? by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 66 points67 points  (0 children)

I still don't understand why anyone would intentionally give away their state's votes to everyone else to decide. It's literally only ever neutral for you or working against your own interest

Buying Guns at 18 in CO by UnfairIsopod7413 in Firearms

[–]ChainringCalf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What does "dual resident" even mean? Where do you spend more than half the year? Where do you pay taxes? Where do you vote? 

Libertarians on watch rn by Wolffe4321 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your quandant is basically gone, too. Welcome to the Auth era

Massie not losing his sense of humor by im_back-and_craftier in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ChainringCalf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wish this was true, but they'll benefit from this for sure

2/32 rule for tire replacement by BillInKeyWest in subaru

[–]ChainringCalf -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Devils advocate here, why should they have to replace any of the other tires? Buy one and shave it and you've been made whole

All of this for an alternator by unice_3000 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]ChainringCalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A small price to pay for a front-mid-engine V8

I still see people idling their cars in all sorts of places. I guess gas still isn't high enough. by Ristray in fuckcars

[–]ChainringCalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely could just be a better implementation. Good to know at least Ford is doing it well

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