this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
35 points (100.0% liked)
news
85 readers
487 users here now
A lightweight news hub to help decentralize the fediverse load: mirror and discuss headlines here so the giant instance communities aren’t a single choke-point.
Rules:
- Recent news articles only (past 30 days)
- Title must match the article headline
- Avoid duplicates & spam (search before posting; batch minor updates).
- Be civil; no hate or personal attacks.
- No link shorteners
- No entire article in the post body
founded 3 weeks ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The existence of the senate is already a ridiculous gerrymander. A state with less than 600,000 people (Wyoming) gets the same amount of representation as a state with almost 40,000,000 people (CA).
Can anyone with a brain make that seem fair in any way.
The same way every delegation in the UN gets a vote, even though the UN contains both China and the Vatican.
The states were intended to be states - fairly independent political entities which shared resources to maintain a military and facilitate trade.
Those states are not independent. They depend on the taxes from CA to subsidize them.
I'm just explaining the historical path we took.