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Electoral college argument.

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Original Question

An internet meme that has been going around.


"Abolishing the electoral college would make Los Angeles county stronger than 43 states!"


"Reposting this has been deleted 3 times!"


 


Is this argument a Fallacy of Composition? Or a False Equivalence Fallacy?


This argument seems to be treating states as individual voters, when states are made up of individual voters, and states make up the total # of individuals within the country. We know that within a democracy, the majority of individual votes determines who's elected. Is this a form of legal voter suppression?


Also, the last part of the argument regarding being deleted 3 times. What fallacy would that be? The argument is using being deleted as validation of the memes argument. 

Answers

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Abolishing the electoral college would make Los Angeles county stronger than 43 states!



This is just a false claim (see https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/08/facebook-posts/fact-checking-claim-electoral-college-los-angeles-/)



Reposting this has been deleted 3 times!



Seems to be an implied Conspiracy Theory . Also, I recall discussing something like this on a recent post - the idea that is one is silenced what they say must be true (rather than simply harmful).

My immediate thought is, so what? The population of LA is much larger than many states, so why shouldn't that population be represented? At the moment North and South Dakota have a combined population of just over 1.5 millions but each have the same representation as California, or combined have double that of California. 


I don't see a fallacy as it just states a fact an opinion* with no argument. If I'm to infer my own argument I'd say crack on. 


* Just abolishing the electoral college doesn't necessarily do anything of the sort, it would depend on what replaced it. 


I don't think pointing out reposting/deletion is necessarily supportive of the argument (if there was an argument) to begin with, it could be frustration, or idiocy (assuming someone is bleating about being caught breaking rules, which will stop with a ban/suspension). If it's intended to suggest suppression of ideas then I'd have to see that actually worded rather than infer it.


 


UPDATE: I didn't realise this was to do with presidential elections. I don't know how the electoral college works and it would still depend on what replaced it, but I think my point still stands, so what? If there are more voters in LA County then they should have more say in the election of head of state. Period. There's still no argument for or against though. I'm guessing that it's against and being presented as wrong, but that seems to require support of the commander of cheese.

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