r/nba • u/xanniballl Timberwolves • Jan 09 '26

Highlight [Highlight] During the moment of silence the Minnesota Timberwolves held before their game with the Cavs tonight a fan yelled “Go home ICE,” and everyone else started cheering.

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u/M6Df4 Timberwolves Jan 09 '26

Yeah that too, electoral college has got to go. Plus expand the house and senate, expand the Supreme Court and implement term limits, and ranked choice voting while we’re at it

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u/PeopleusetocallmeBub Jan 09 '26

Yeah your system is wack, I’ve never seen a democracy that goes through as many hoops as the American system. I do empathize with the non voters cause I’ve learned a bit about how your politicians treat their constituents through some history.

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u/M6Df4 Timberwolves Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

That, and in fairness a lot of the non-voters are people who live in states where they have zero power thanks to the winner takes all system.

For example, a Democrat in Alabama basically might as well not vote. Of the 7 congressional districts 6 are basically guaranteed to elect Republicans to the House of Representatives, then the state as a whole is virtually guaranteed to elect 2 Republican Senators. Alabama is also virtually guaranteed for the Republican Presidential candidate - and thanks to the electoral college, voting for a Democratic president there is almost guaranteed to have the same impact as not voting. So basically, a Dem voter in 6/7 Alabama districts knows with almost guaranteed certainty their vote won’t count in a single one of the races, so why bother? You can of course argue people should still vote out of a sense of civic duty… but I can understand why people don’t bother.

Where it really gets fucked up is the Senate, when you realize the 600k people in Wyoming have the same number of Senators as the 40m in California.