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		claytongulick 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New York’s budget bill would require “blocking tec... > Surely you want the leader that most Americans voted for? I prefer not to live in the Hunger Games world, personally. Those books are a brilliant exploration of the tyranny of urban clusters. The electoral college is an effective foil to that.

lostlogin 27 days ago [–]

I wouldn’t call the US system ‘effective’. The US system is spiralling and it’s getting dystopian. The hunger games analogy is fitting, with The Patriot Games coming right up.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/politics/patriot-games-an...

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