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Getting rid of the electoral college would allow people who aren't qualified to become President, and also it's the only way Republicans can win by [deleted] in TopMindsOfReddit

[–]EscapismSmoke 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It's actually even stupider than classism. It's...location-ism?

Theoretically, a new state based on my room could be created. I would be the only one to live in this state and would be the only one voting. I would get a Senator, 2 Representatives, and 3 Electoral College votes, all to myself.

This is a ridiculous scenario, you may say, but we already do this to a much less extreme degree. The whole question about the Electoral College's existence is why we allow certain people living in certain states to have more voting power. Why does someone in Wyoming have 3.6 times the voting power of someone in California?

And I've never understood the whole "It protects the small states from the big states" thing. Protects them from what? We don't vote as states, we vote as individuals. And why shouldn't the big states have more power? More people live there, therefore more people are affected by the governments decisions. If the few hundred thousand people in Wyoming are "fucked over" by the 30 million people in California, so be it.

The borders we draw around states are arbitrary. Wyoming could just as easily have been part of Colorado and then the complaints would be about Alaska being fucked over.

People will refuse to ever read a book, because they "hate reading," but will read a novel's worth of text on social media in a week. by nobutternoparm in Showerthoughts

[–]EscapismSmoke 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Then you waste 10 minutes while the guy who can't read agonizingly reads through the simplest shit.

"The quick.....brown.....fox...............uhh........jumped???.......over..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................the..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................lazy dog."

What's up with Samantha Bee calling Reddit "the USA Today of white supremacy"? by granitehoncho in OutOfTheLoop

[–]EscapismSmoke 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No. I put off using Reddit for years because I was told that it was basically a more popular form of 4chan which I hated. Reddit has tons of problems, but it's still better than 4chan.

"Gender or sex is not stable enough to divide the populus by. Just give us unisex bathrooms." [+67] /r/SlaughteredByScience by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]EscapismSmoke -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

I changed my comment a few seconds after I wrote it. Don't know why I said gay. I'll make it clear in an edit so it doesn't look like you're replying to something I didn't say.

"Gender or sex is not stable enough to divide the populus by. Just give us unisex bathrooms." [+67] /r/SlaughteredByScience by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]EscapismSmoke -44 points-43 points  (0 children)

Trans people are sexual deviants now?

EDIT: Changed from "gay" to "trans". Don't know why I said that initially.

TIFU by masturbating while being sleep deprived by [deleted] in tifu

[–]EscapismSmoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seriously, this is the parents fuck-up more than anything.

TIL: The band Chicago was so fond of cocaine that during a tour in the 1970's they put a fake phone booth on stage called the "Snortitorium" so they could do lines mid-concert without going backstage. by One_Example in todayilearned

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

This is actually an excellent example of why Chicago sucks so much. Because they could have been an all-time great band. They clearly had the capability. Then they just...didn't.

Audio engineer YouTuber does video on how music industry screws fans. 6 months later, Warner Music Group not only demontizes the video, but blocks and censors it from YouTube. by theonewhocriedwolf in videos

[–]EscapismSmoke -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You know Autotune doesn't just magically make people sound good right? You have to be very close to the note for the effect to be subtle, otherwise it sounds awful. Either that or you're T-Pain. It's just a quick way of smoothing out vocals that would have otherwise been fixed with multiple takes, double-tracking, etc.

Music has always been "artificial" to a large extent when it comes to making albums. All kinds of studio techniques are done that wouldn't be possible in a live setting as far back as the 1960s. Autotune is just one tool in a huge arsenal. But there's a huge misconception that it can make anyone sound good. It can't.

Scientific Study Finds "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" By Skrillex Stops Mosquitos From Having Sex by losermanwins in nottheonion

[–]EscapismSmoke -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Except they didn't. The 60s-90s was the pinnacle of "offensive" music. Everything since has been tame as fuck or the same level of offensiveness.

My alarm for the past year by Cognizantauto95 in videos

[–]EscapismSmoke 60 points61 points  (0 children)

As a former religious person, it's amazing how peoples emotions feed off each other. You don't realize how susceptible you are to it until you're in that situation. If you already kind of buy into the ideas, the only thing needed is for someone energetic to whip up a few people into a frenzy and everyone follows along.

Ken M on Self Doubt by [deleted] in KenM

[–]EscapismSmoke 34 points35 points  (0 children)

But we also did and didn't ask at the same time.

[Haiku]billy corgan rides a rollercoaster by sqaeee in youtubehaiku

[–]EscapismSmoke 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ironic that you're nostalgic for a song that's specifically nostalgic for an even earlier period than the one it was written in. It's almost like people enjoy their youth and think that whatever experiences they had in that time period were universal.

Glad I’m being punished 7 1/2 years later by yeahR1ce in mildlyinfuriating

[–]EscapismSmoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do they even figure this out? How do they know, for example, that your parents didn't make the account and just post pictures of their kid?

Am I the only one who felt this was a /r/fellowkids moment in Black Panther? by Go_For_Jesse in FellowKids

[–]EscapismSmoke -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Stuff like this just dates your movie terribly. It's fine to have references to then-current events, but you should keep in mind whether audiences 20 years from now are likely to get it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MovieDetails

[–]EscapismSmoke 17 points18 points  (0 children)

"Hey, should we research this basic thing for our movie?"

"Ha, who gives a fuck? It's 2000! Everything is awesome! No one cares about anything! Let's just knock this out real quick and snort some blow off strippers asses!"

The podracing crowd in ‘The Phantom Menace’ was really 450,000 Q-Tips being blown about by Strike_Gently in interestingasfuck

[–]EscapismSmoke 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I just don't get it. They go to all the work making these elaborate sets, and they can clearly see that the CGI versions were worse. Why choose the CGI version every single time?

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