A few times I have actually switched sale stickers on things just to get a larger discount on something I wanted . Haven ' t done it often , and it ' s usually with small things like with clothes at Walmart . <| sep |> No , just in little organised groups or tribes where everyone wants it to happen <| sep |> BO 3 Splash was a nightmare for a month . Other than that pretty good . <| sep |> If Team A and Team B play a game of football and Team A wins by 31 goals , yet Team B had 52 % time of possession , would it be fair to hand Team B the win after the match was played ? Even if all parties involved agreed beforehand that what would count are the goals scored ? Look , I ' m opposed to the EC as well , I prefer ranked voting , but the rules were agreed upon before the election . Hundreds of years ago , actually . If we want the popular vote to count we have to agree on that before the election . I mean , how can you possibly claim to know what the election would have panned out had both parties employed a completely different campaign strategy from the beginning ? How can you be sure that if Trump hadn ' t focused his attention on Florida and Ohio , but anywhere else , he wouldn ' t have gotten more votes there than he did with the current system ? He won over people where we held his rallies . Who told you he wouldn ' t have improved from 20 % to 23 % of the vote in insert typically liberal metropolis here ? You have no way of knowing this . The fact of the matter is that current campaigns only hit a select few states anywayWell , before this election anyone on this sub would ' ve agreed that Michigan is a lost cause anyway and Trump needs to focus his attention entirely on NC , FL , PA etc . Not the case . I mean how do you reconcile the idea that all men are created equal while simultaneously believing that people living in rural areas should have significantly more political power than those in cities ? Take a look at this mapcdn . comuploadschorusassetfile 7489429 countymaprb 1024 . png . Now , if you were the president , where would you direct the funds for any given new infrastructure project ? Into the biggest cities , since there , more people will profit from the potholefree street than if you had fixed streets in the middle of Wyoming . Directing the funds there impacts more people ' s lives and gives you more votes . This doesn ' t mean that the people in Wyoming don ' t need working streets and power grids , they should have the same , equal notice something ? rights to D . C . ' s attention as people in NYC and Los Angeles . Yet they ' re overlooked , because there aren ' t much voters to be won over there . This was historically the whole point of the electoral college , to protect small states from being bullied by the bigger ones . Without the EC , the union could have never been formed . This is literally the whole point of any federation , which the US is one of . This system works in many , if not most Western countries for the same reason that any kind of decentralization works better than relying on concentrated power Competition between different ideas and interests .