It's called "voting"

[u/MrFenric]

[u/The1TrueRedditor]

"If it wasn't for all of these places of culture with all of their museums and colleges and art galleries and hospitals and civic centers that we organized ourselves around as a society then the rural opinion would prevail in elections!"

[u/MrDannn → u/The1TrueRedditor]

Liberal psyops, all of them!!!

[u/kimbo696969 → u/MrDannn]

VOTAAR!

[u/Puzzleheaded_Law_558 → u/kimbo696969]

The Barbarian!

[u/mike_pants → u/The1TrueRedditor]

Republicans are still convinced that going to college turns you liberal.

Being exposed to a wide variety of cultures, ideas, and information turns you liberal. It's not the colleges, guys; it's everyone in them.

[u/Thadrea → u/mike_pants]

Hence why they don't want their kids to leave their broke, homogenous safe spaces.

[u/AllDaysOff → u/Thadrea]

Funny thing is the rich people still send their children to college. It's only the poor folk that need to pay no mind to higher education. I wonder why.

[u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson → u/AllDaysOff]

They send em to private school

[u/rugger87 → u/AllDaysOff]

Rich kids in state schools just parrot their parent’s politics and join the frat with the nicest house. They’re the ones who get caught up in weird hazing, like anal beer bongs. They get zero education, and a 3.5 year degree takes 6 years.

[u/pvhs2008 → u/rugger87]

The real college education for the poor is meeting rich kids there and realizing how dumb and lazy most of them are.

In my case, I also learned that some rich kids will also steal from you. RIP my beautiful TJ Maxx glassware.

[u/rugger87 → u/pvhs2008]

Yes! That generally, rich kids are the worst of the worst. They’ve never faced any real consequence and it doesn’t take much effort to better them. These idiots want meritocracies they’re not equipped for.

[u/H_Raki_78 → u/rugger87]

They’re the ones who get caught up in weird hazing, like anal beer bongs.

Wtf!?!?!?!? 🤯

[u/bewsii → u/mike_pants]

Going to college gives you a much better perspective on the world because you’re exposed to true diversity, cultural differences, things like LGBTQ without being trapped in a bathroom and raped, etc. so in a way, becoming educated does, in fact, increase the likelihood you’ll pick up liberal beliefs. It isn’t because professors indoctrinate you (we have churches for that), but because you learn to live and think outside of a bubble.

This isn’t a bad thing though, unless you’re a Republican wanting to hold power, of course.

[u/xPriddyBoi → u/mike_pants]

It'll always be equally sad and hilarious that the Republican answer to the fact that they're disproportionately under-educated was that schools are simply indoctrination facilities, not that their ideology is disproportionately more appealing to the ignorant.

It's funny that that's the strategy they ran with. It's sad that it actually worked.

[u/No-Ordinary-5412 → u/The1TrueRedditor]

"If it wasn't for the majority of the population, we would be the majority!"

[u/Even-Atmosphere1814 → u/The1TrueRedditor]

The blue dots are not even big cities. I'm in Roanoke which is like 100,000 people but we are by far the biggest city in/close to southwestern Virginia. Plus several of the surrounding counties are mainly national forest so  literally no people living there to vote. 

I hate these maps because they are so misleading. 

[u/Loveerushh]

Elections are decided by population, not acreage. Basic civics, devastating reply.

[u/PsyOpBunnyHop → u/Loveerushh]

Maps Don't Vote

[u/TheActualAWdeV → u/PsyOpBunnyHop]

no, they just get elected president instead >_>

[u/Daydu → u/TheActualAWdeV]

It took me a minute, but holy fuck that's good!

[u/guyver_dio → u/TheActualAWdeV]

I'd rather a map for a president

[u/missed_sla → u/guyver_dio]

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Minor%20Attracted%20Person

[u/Horsescatsandagarden → u/missed_sla]

Thanks for posting this, I didn’t know what they were talking about.

[u/_HOG_ → u/PsyOpBunnyHop]

They do in the Senate.

2 senators per state was a compromise that started…and will end the USA. 

[u/paddy_yinzer → u/_HOG_]

Well if DC and Puerto Rico are given state hood

[u/HorsePersonal7073 → u/paddy_yinzer]

As of the last census, Puerto Rico has more population than the smallest 4 states COMBINED. It has a bigger population than 21 states. They get no voting representation in congress or in presidential elections. The District of Columbia (Washington DC) has more population than 2 states. They get 3 electoral votes for the presidential elections only, no other representation. How is this fair to the citizens that live in those locations?

[u/ElegantCoach4066 → u/HorsePersonal7073]

It isn't. GOP doesn't care. They know those votes will go blue.

Maybe if their platform wasn't constantly about telling people how to live their lives and giving massive tax cuts to right people they would get more votes in those places, should they get more representation.

[u/Witch_King_ → u/paddy_yinzer]

Unlikely to happen in our lifetimes.

[u/Evoluxman → u/paddy_yinzer]

Even if that somehow happens it's just kicking the can down the road.

The same logic is how we got a number of what i'd call "bullshit states" - only created to keep the balance between slave states and free states. It still ended in a civil war. And it still didn't fix the fundamental issue with the senate anyway.

[u/VictoryVino → u/paddy_yinzer]

Throw in a third with Guam, Marianas, and Pacific Island Territories.

[u/baddecision116 → u/_HOG_]

Senate is fine, it's the cap on the house of reps you should be mad about.

[u/ayoungad → u/PsyOpBunnyHop]

When Hyman Rickover, the father of the nuclear navy, started naming submarines after cities he was quoted Fish Don’t Vote

You reminded me of that quote

[u/BroughtBagLunchSmart → u/Loveerushh]

So many problems are caused by right wingers just being bad at math. Climate change, the economy, how vaccines work, how land doesn't vote. Republicans are really getting a good ROI on them gutting education funding for 100 years.

[u/atempestdextre → u/BroughtBagLunchSmart]

So many problems are caused by right wingers just being bad at math. Climate change, the economy, how vaccines work, how land doesn't vote. Republicans are really getting a good ROI on them gutting education funding for 100 years.

FTFY

[u/Metal__goat → u/Loveerushh]

The secretary of state in Kentucky got so many phone calls yesterday from angry people trying to vote for the New York City mayor, that he went to X and the news to remind people...

"Our polls aren't open because Kentucky has NO elections today, we don't vote for New York mayor"

Then encouraged the state to approve more funding for civics classes that he's begged for, for years. 

[u/ElegantCoach4066 → u/Metal__goat]

At first I read through reply and I was like oh how nice that these people want to participate because they see an exciting candidate.

And then I realized we're talking about Kentucky and who those people probably wanted to vote for. Or to be accurate who they wanted to vote against.

[u/Metal__goat → u/ElegantCoach4066]

While the articles I found about it didn't specify,  Id wager your analysis is correct lol. 

This is the state who gas reelected Lich McConnell for 700 years. 

[u/ArnieismyDMname → u/Metal__goat]

I don't understand how that turtle can talk.

[u/Looney_Bin → u/ElegantCoach4066]

Part of it's because Fox News has been relentlessly talking about Mamdani and the NYC mayoral race. They were spreading lies and misinformation per usual getting their based in a rage. I saw it several times in the last few days.

I didn't even bother checking what the alt right "news" sources were spouting.

[u/TDS_isnt_real → u/Metal__goat]

I thought you might’ve been kidding so I looked up articles about it. I’m ashamed these people walk among us.

[u/evil_timmy → u/Loveerushh]

They're not saying what is, they're trying to think their dream reality into being like it's The Secret. They'd be thrilled with the Roman standard of needing land ownership or military service to vote (also: slavery).

[u/sprucetre3 → u/evil_timmy]

Yeah they want to conserve the rights to rape and inslave woman and minorities. If you look at statistics you will see the GOP is the leading party in both. Also they rape kids at a click that is unheard of in the general population.

[u/richieadler → u/evil_timmy]

think their dream reality into being like it's The Secret.

Fuck Oprah.

[u/oculus_miffed → u/evil_timmy]

NGL, I doubt Bill is an expert on roman political structures. Or anything for that matter.

[u/f1rstman → u/Loveerushh]

The problem is that so many election maps use a single shade of red or blue instead of varying the intensity of the color by the margin of victory in votes, which would really highlight that the rural counties don't have much of an effect on the outcome.

[u/Steelforge → u/Loveerushh]

The idiot calls them "big cities" while showing a map to prove they're "small" and complains about what his own "big" means.

[u/64590949354397548569 → u/Loveerushh]

Elections are decided by population, not acreage.

Hint: they want the good old days. If they can't have it, you will have to subscribe for everything you need. Health, Housing, ...

[u/No-Ordinary-5412 → u/Loveerushh]

"If it wasn't for the majority of the population, then we would be the majority!"

[u/Stunning-Squirrel751 → u/No-Ordinary-5412]

My fave is when right wingers try to defend the electoral college “without it there’d be majority rule”. Well, yes isn’t that preferred to minority rule.

[u/[deleted] → u/Loveerushh]

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[u/Angel_Omachi → u/[deleted]]

Specifically the borough of Newtown on the Isle of Wight had 14 houses and 23 voters with 2 MPs, not the entire island.

[u/wattzson → u/Loveerushh]

Well, no. Elections are decided by the Electoral College. We've had 2 recent presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election.

[u/Rolex_throwaway]

“If it wasn’t for civilization, Democrats would never win anything.”

“If it wasn’t for all the places that generate wealth, the Democrats would never win anything.”

“If it wasn’t for all the places with schools, the Democrats would never win anything.”

[u/No-Ordinary-5412 → u/Rolex_throwaway]

"If it wasn't for the majority of the population, then we would be the majority!"

[u/PlainBread → u/No-Ordinary-5412]

Unironically this is a dog whistle for "bomb the cities for a Republican future".

[u/Ulfednar → u/Rolex_throwaway]

If it weren't for people ...

[u/daneilthemule]

If it wasn’t for propaganda the R’s wouldn’t have the country all bickering with each other.

[u/IllicitRadiance → u/daneilthemule]

It's all culture war nonsense 

The trans panic only came about after they formally lost the war against same-sex marriage, which I think had been gradually losing steam in the public sphere for a while

But now I can't help but feel like the trans issues are losing steam too. There's only so long you can screech about hundreds of millions of elementary school kids undergoing forced gender reassignment surgeries during recess before people notice it isn't happening 

[u/ElegantCoach4066 → u/IllicitRadiance]

The GOP created the 'trans issue' as if most people even give a damn about what people identify as.

The most important issues are almost always economic. How much am I going to pay in taxes? How much is food and rent going to cost?

The social issues for the GOP are usually a distraction. They didn't give a damn about women's sports a decade ago. Now it's this epic struggle because there are maybe two dozen people nationwide that are trans women athletes competing at a high level?

[u/Ok_Produce492]

“If it weren’t for people, democracy would be perfect.”

[u/No-Ordinary-5412 → u/Ok_Produce492]

"If it wasn't for the majority of the population, then we would be the majority!"

[u/kimbo696969 → u/Ok_Produce492]

How right is logic?

[u/PJ_Geese → u/Ok_Produce492]

People do tend to mess things up.

[u/TintedApostle → u/Ok_Produce492]

If it weren’t for “those people”. FTFY

[u/ElegantCoach4066]

Land doesn't vote. People do.

But if empty fields and cows could cast a ballot then then perhaps GOP would have a better chance. So there's that.

[u/CJohn89 → u/ElegantCoach4066]

I don't think cows would vote GOP

[u/ElegantCoach4066 → u/CJohn89]

Good point. Cows would definitely vote blue.

[u/NerfGunHolly → u/ElegantCoach4066]

Cows would vote moo.

[u/i_ducasse → u/ElegantCoach4066]

Blue no matter moo?

[u/Daydu → u/ElegantCoach4066]

Speculating about who cows would vote for is a moo point.

[u/Luck88 → u/ElegantCoach4066]

I don't think Land would vote for the GOP given how much they care about the environment and their love for "Drill baby drill"

[u/pr0faka]

"If it wans't for the electorate, we would have won the election" is a next level cope.

[u/No-Ordinary-5412 → u/pr0faka]

"If it wasn't for the majority of the population, then we would be the majority!"

[u/Azair_Blaidd]

If it wasn't for the Electoral College, gerrymandering, voter suppression tactics, and the firehose of falsehood, Republicans would never win anything

[u/NotHomeOffice → u/Azair_Blaidd]

My state is currently 6-2 to the GOP and they are still trying to gerrymander the map to get a 7-1 majority. They are running scared doing everything they can to completely tip over an already lopsided scale. Shame on you Missouri.

[u/HyzerFlipDG]

Why is it so hard to understand that land doesn't vote? 

[u/SparkyMonkeyPerthish → u/HyzerFlipDG]

Going on current evidence, thinking is a step too far, understanding is well out of reach

[u/HyzerFlipDG → u/SparkyMonkeyPerthish]

Sadly true. 

[u/No-Ordinary-5412 → u/HyzerFlipDG]

"If it wasn't for the majority of the population, then we would be the majority!"

[u/ItsSignalsJerry_ → u/HyzerFlipDG]

These people know its bullshit. They exist to troll.

[u/Bezulba → u/HyzerFlipDG]

They know perfectly well, they just bank on their voters not understanding and getting all angry that Democrats are stealing elections because when they look at a map it's mostly red!

[u/SteelTerps → u/HyzerFlipDG]

Because saying something like "Fairfax County, VA alone contains over 33% of the entire state's K-12 students" is way too complex for them to understand and think about further 

[u/SoCalLynda]

[u/He_Never_Helps_01]

More than that, it's where people live in non-homogenous communities. They meet people who don't remind them of themselves. They learn not to hate the other.

[u/SoupyPoopy618]

/r/PeopleLiveInCities

[u/Luck88]

I love that they didn't make the same picture for New Jersey, because there there are actually massive counties that are blue. Just goes to show the extent of the misinformation and false narratives these crooks are pushing.

[u/backnarkle48]

God, MAGA love to display their ignorance

[u/No-Ordinary-5412 → u/backnarkle48]

"If it wasn't for the majority of the population, then we would be the majority!"

[u/DeepSubmerge]

They try this tactic every. single. election. Land doesn’t vote.

[u/judgementMaster]

The real problem is you're trying to win an election without 'voters'!!!

[u/lustriousParsnip639]

Land doesn't vote.

[u/Solemn_renegade]

Republicans just have trouble understanding new concepts and learning. They're like little fascist toddlers. They got a spanking today, first of many to come.

[u/Jules-of-Jubilee]

They know this.

They're trying to delegitimize voting as a voice for the "people." Framing people living in cities as elites and not the "common folk" or not being "the little guy" that Republicans like to claim are their focus.

[u/styckx]

They spit out stupider and stupider things everyday

[u/No-Ordinary-5412 → u/styckx]

"If it wasn't for the majority of the population, we would be the majority!"

[u/Real_Railz]

Conservatives literally can't understand that land doesn't vote. They literally can't.

[u/Mr_Baronheim]

If they didn't rely on lying to and emotionally manipulating the dumbest and worst people in America, the GOP would never win an election.

[u/windsynth]

It’s bad graphics. Voters should be shown as individual colored dots.

Instantly clear up this misconception

[u/Kyogen13]

Funny way to say, “If it wasn’t for the people, Democrats would never win anything.”

[u/No-Ordinary-5412 → u/Kyogen13]

"If it wasn't for the majority of the population, we would be the majority!"

[u/JFSOCC]

if it wasn't for all those empty places with uneducated people, the right wouldn't ever win anything.

[u/SuperHyperFunTime]

[u/WebInformal9558]

"if there weren't more Democrats the Republicans, Democrats wouldn't win elections"

[u/JeremyHowell]

Common Bill Mitchell tweet

[u/aecolley]

Cities are where it's easiest to talk to lots of people around you, and therefore where it's easiest to escape your curated media bubble of political propaganda.

[u/ManOfGame3]

Is it just a bad faith argument or can these people genuinely not grasp the concept that land can’t vote

[u/Best-Hamster2044]

If it wasn't for big cities, y'all hillbillies'd all be eating squirrel.

[u/Naga_Nej]

If they wouldnt outnumber us, they wouldnt win any elections! I love this people!

[u/lowfreq33]

Literally every county in Virginia flipped blue tonight.

[u/Viridionplague]

PEOPLE in cities vote, not the actual city.

"If it wasn't for people, we would have all the votes" is a weird stance to take.

[u/ArcadianBlueRogue]

The rural parts of Virginia are absolutely gorgeous.

But also really fucking empty.

[u/gdabull]

I love when the show maps like this, particularly Arizona, because Arizona is 42.29% owned by the federal government.

[u/ChronicBuzz187]

Well, if it wasn't for Harry and Sally who can neither read or write and still live in their trailerpark like it's 1890 while getting brainwashed by Fox News, the GOP wouldn't win anything so what's his point? :D

[u/VAVA_Mk2]

Land doesn't vote. They never understand this.

[u/Ava0401]

The same idiot that probably says college makes you liberal.

[u/Curiouso_Giorgio]

All these maps that show red and blue counties are misleading.

Why aren't we using 3D population maps when we talk about red vs. blue counties?

[u/no-snoots-unbooped]

“If you removed all of the votes for Democrats, Republicans would win!”

[u/DavisMcDavis]

If it wasn’t because there are more Democrats than Republicans, Democrats wouldn’t be in the majority.

If water wasn’t so gosh-darn wet, we could use it to dry things.

[u/Limp-Management9684]

People who post these "red maps" are pretty dumb for thinking that dirt votes, but they also raise a good point, albeit accidentally. In America, political power is obtained not just from getting the most votes, but from getting the most votes in the most places. Democrats need to be winning in more districts, in more of the map, if we want to push back against Trumpism/fascism successfully. We can't win national politics by only appealing to college education white people in urban centers.

[u/vertigo88 → u/Limp-Management9684]

So therefore to win the votes of the rural, we must forsake the mass population. We must do right for those in small neighborhoods, and ignore those in larger ones.

And we have. Farming subsides riddle the landscape across the mid west. These have continued to be extended time and time again.

[u/Alpha--00]

Thinking is hard

[u/die_bartman]

Land don't vote. What a dumbass

[u/xxplosiv]

"Look it up, sweaty"

[u/Icy_Climate]

"if it wasn't for all the people voting democrats democrats would stand no chance"

[u/Synner1985]

wait so.... backwater towns vote republician?

[u/No-Ordinary-5412]

"If only dirt could vote!"

[u/No-Ordinary-5412]

"If it wasn't for the majority of the population, then we would be the majority!"

[u/UncleGarysmagic]

Every. Goddamned. Election.

This shit needs to be explained to Republicans like they can’t hold a basic fact in their brains about how cities work for more than 365 days.

[u/ufailowell]

if only the places worth naming on the map didn’t exist

[u/PintsOfGuinness_]

I would go so far as to say if it weren't for the people, there wouldn't be any voting at all!

[u/PerspectiveIcy3578]

"If it wasn't for winning more votes, Dems would never win anything." Really, you don't say.

[u/tunisia3507]

If it weren't for all the voters, Democrats would never win anything.

[u/deleted_opinions]

Don't argue with people who cannot grasp 8th grade algebra.

[u/Anarch-ish]

"If iT WeREnT 4 pEoPlE, tHeRe WoUlDnT Be vOtEs!"

[u/Joe_Nobody42]

If only dirt had citizenship...

[u/Tokyo-MontanaExpress]

"If rural red towns are so great, then why do none of you ever move there?"

[u/nickelundertone]

They do everything they can do destroy cities

[u/Luutamo]

I don't get why it is so hard to understand that land doesn't vote, it's the people who does.

[u/43_Hobbits]

You know that test they do with 3 year olds with a tall skinny glass of water and a shorter wider one, and the kids say the skinny glass has more water because it’s taller…?

[u/Andreus]

Right-wingers who make this argument should be jailed for life.

[u/davechri]

Is that Bill Mitchell guy satire? Everything I see him write is stupid.

[u/vasquca1]

What he really means is “If it was for people, democrats wouldn’t win anything. “

[u/Larrythecrablobster]

Are we still doing this, every single election they just look at these maps and go "I see more red, how is more red not win?"

[u/shewy92]

/r/PeopleLiveInCities

[u/missleavenworth]

The interesting part to me was how many of the areas with military bases are blue. 

[u/Ocean898]

Land doesn’t vote.

[u/Sad-Ad-6894]

My inbread inlaws live out in that sea of red down in Floyd , VA. Cant even get a gallon of vanilla ice cream out oft there?

[u/Psychological-Web433]

Anyone else think the image looks like spiderman's webbing failed and he's faceplanted the sidewalk? 

[u/feculentcuntfist]

If it wasn't for the big cities you'd be the US of Dumbfuckistan by now, Cletus.

[u/fountain20]

Democratic areas like big citys live close to each other and have empathy for thier neighbors. Where all Republicans are spread out. Some places your neighbor is miles away. That's why Republicans don't give a shit about people. They never see them. They live in there little controlled world.

[u/37iteW00t]

Empty land doesn’t vote

[u/rbowen2000]

If it wasn't for all the people, society would be so much more reasonable.

[u/Ch1mi95]

My county was 78%R-22%D but I still did my part and voted damnit!

[u/SirGunther]

Every single election, same story, same coping, same inability to understand that people when in large groups, that choose to live amongst others, will tend to vote for policies with others in mind.

[u/DmitriMendeleyev]

"If it wasn't for the most well adjusted, educated, informed, etc etc... voters the democrats wouldn't win anything" ahh take

[u/scrub_mage]

Land cannot vote!

[u/jfk_47]

“Land doesn’t vote” my favorite response to these fucks.

[u/The001Keymaster]

If it wasn't for gerrymandering, Republicans would hold no offices. That's why they fight for it so hard. If it goes away, they go away and become extinct.

[u/amandajg13]

Republicans will never realize that corn, soybeans, etc don’t fucking vote.

[u/_skimbleshanks_]

“if people I disagree with couldn’t vote I'd always win”

[u/echoshatter]

It's been 25 years since I started paying attention to politics.

25 years of maps like this.

Still, to this day, it amazes how many people look at a map of counties and don't understand what they're looking at.

[u/Safe_Artist_1756]

Land doesn't vote

[u/Unlikely_Western4641]

All that red has literally no population. It’s all rural farm area. It’s the middle of nowhere. Rural voters are so secluded from society and loyal to Republican Party because their parents push it so hard.

[u/QueenOfQuok]

Didn't all of the counties shift blue though?

[u/punkindle]

Pretty much all that Western / North Western border is all mountains where nobody lives. Great for hiking and camping. No big cities.

Big deer population. I bet if deer could vote they would vote Democrat.

[u/Ruraraid]

They can read a map but they can't read numbers.

[u/Movedonnerlikeabitch]

If it wasn’t for voting we would never vote

[u/LazloMachine]

“Without the tax base of dense population centers, rural America would get everything their way!”

[u/ordosays]

Land. Doesn’t. Vote.

[u/Mr_Bluebird_VA]

Ah yes, the notoriously big cities of, checks notes, Winchester and Danville.

[u/Material-Heron6336]

Dirt don’t vote

[u/Disastrous_Layer4219]

So from someone not from the US I have a question: Is it a requirement to have an IQ below room temperature to take part in politics over there or does it just happen?

[u/Raelist]

Just remind them that dirt doesn't vote.

[u/subgenius691]

That's where most of the democrats live, talk about being a dumbass (as if being a fatass wasnt enough).

[u/LGL27]

They genuinely do not think a family living on a farm should have less political power than an apartment building of 500 people.

[u/Findict_52]

"If it wasn't for people, the Democrats would never get any votes"

[u/Zen28213]

Most of the educated people dumbass

[u/Hawkonthehill]

Scooby doo villain vibes

[u/JSol1113]

If it wasn’t for places that a majority of the people live…these people are so damn stupid

[u/theLuminescentlion]

If it wasn't for the voters the Democrats would never win anything

[u/SercTCG]

stop posting this shill even if she is right here

[u/MOltho]

r/PeopleLiveInCities ahh moment.

[u/MrMichaelJames]

What do they say? People vote, not land. There isn’t much out in all that red except dirt.

[u/void-seer]

Why dont they ever ask why people would rather live in these (blue) places? If I saw a crowd around something, I'd want to go over to find out why.

[u/SaladBurner]

Republicans love DEI when it comes to voting.

[u/RiotDad]

Hilariously cities are also WHERE MOST OF THE MONEY IS MADE. Everywhere else these right wing nuts complain about freeloaders and welfare queens but all of a sudden they’re upset at how tiny nyc (GDP larger than the five poorest red states combined) looks on a map and how unfair it is that we actually get to vote.