• Neato@ttrpg.network
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    5 months ago

    Republican Party of Texas delegates voted Saturday on a platform that called for new laws to require the Bible to be taught in public schools and a constitutional amendment that would require statewide elected leaders to win the popular vote in a majority of Texas counties.

    Other proposed planks of the 50-page platform included proclamations that “abortion is not healthcare it is homicide”; that gender-transition treatment for children is “child abuse”; calls to reverse recent name changes to military bases and “publicly honor the southern heroes”; support for declaring gold and silver as legal tender; and demands that the U.S. government disclose “all pertinent information and knowledge” of UFOs.

    Some of this is hateful, abusive shit like abortion and transition healthcare. Some of the else is dumbfuckery at the highest level like gold/silver standard and UFO info. Texas is a failed state if they pass any of this shit.

    Perhaps the most consequential plank calls for a constitutional amendment to require that candidates for statewide office carry a majority of Texas’ 254 counties to win an election, a model similar to the U.S. electoral college.

    Under current voting patterns, in which Republicans routinely win in the state’s rural counties, such a requirement would effectively end Democrats’ chances of winning statewide office.

    Oh cool they want to make it so the rural idiots in bumfuck can hold up statewide elections? Cool. Other states should pass a law making all elections beholden to state-wide popular vote. Seeing as most of the country isn’t right-wing, that would ensure Republicans don’t see another seat outside of red states again. Obviously /s but fuck Republicans, the traitorous, undemocratic fucks.

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      Seeing as most of the country isn’t right-wing

      Are you talking population or land area? Because only one of those matters and it’s not population.

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        state-wide popular vote. Seeing as most of the country isn’t right-wing

        Population. Based on what I was proposing…it would matter.

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        Because only one of those matters and it’s not population.

        Sorry, are you saying land area matters more than population and That you support that? Or that it’s just the way it currently is?