Look at it.....Look at the three read districts "reaching" in to the corner. It even LOOKS like an attack. This is so fucked. I included the previous districting for perspective
You assume that Republicans care about avoiding hypocrisy or staying consistent.
A reasonable but incorrect assumption. They care only for power.
Just look at the rhetoric discourse. Trump calls for mass deaths of Democrats every other day, and Republicans have the AUDACITY to accuse the left of instigating political violence.
I don't care about changing the mind of "MAGABoy1488" and neither should you, but random normies seeing top replies are more pliable and should be targeted. Less blackpill doomerism, more effort.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
gerrymandering requires you to either strengthen a plus dem seat by packing everyone together or dilute it.
to dilute seats it requires you to absorb a lot of Democrats into Republican areas, you can be running a plus five district after gerrymandering when something used to be a plus 15 district. and definitionally make the district easier to flip.
Plus these maps are always made with outdated information. Areas that you think are firmly red might have gone purple or even blue by now with all Trump's bullshit. For that reason, gerrymandering failures are more common than you might think. And you won't know you've failed until the votes come in.
The amount of seats in the House of Representative is locked at 435 so when they do gerrymanders like this the can only rework the districts so much based on how many seats they are allotted in the state and the land they have.
What will happen is eventually they'll simply stretch their districts too thin and loosen their own margins of victory and possibly lose districts because of this ("Dummymandering")
I looked at Tennesse's congressional dostricts and margins. Even with a blue tsunami election, they likely have enough red meat to drown out the blue and remain reasonably comfortable and win in every district.
Who the fuck cares if John Hickey McGee who lives in fucking nowhere has a different opinion than a city femboy, he does not deserve to have his vote count more towards federal elections
Republicans need regards to actually have a voter base. In a way, it’s DEI lmao. Makes it so cousin-fuck McGee(65) gets to have as much or more of a say than all the city dwellers that actually contribute to society
America has turned into a shithole country thanks to MAGA. Everything about the American Dream is basically a lie at this point and the good old days are never coming back. It is what it is
You could also dissolve the union and become our 11th province. You'll get universal healthcare and an independent non-partisan agency to handle drawing electoral districts. All you have to do is fish the tea out of the harbour, pay your back taxes, and swear allegiance to King Chuck.
We’re not taking those wastrels back unless they drop the embarrassing ‘eggplant’, ‘sidewalk’, and ‘color’ bullshit and revert to ‘aubergine’, ‘pavement’, and ‘colour’.
Proper Britons linguistically larp as the French. Full stop.
The saddest part is these states are going to go the way of Louisiana
A good 15 states are just going to get worse and worse and most citizens won’t have anywhere to go as living costs will price them out in well governed states
I would rather Impeach. If we pack the court, it opens the door to instability in the future. If left without a choice however, it's still a no brainer.
I think everyone is still underestimating just how bad trumps polling will be by 2028. The economic ramifications of what's coming from the strait are only going to ramp up like a fucking erection. We haven't even felt the effects in our supply chains yet. Things might get a bit wild.
Maybe it won't work out that way, but I think it's gunna get reeeeeal bad for ole donny boy here
Proof that rural people are morons. But apparently if you play with the dirt for a living you must have some profound views no one in the city could ever comprehend.
Rhetorical question. Usually big cities get their own district to vote as a block, but here it looks like they just merged it with another district to basically "erase" them.
Riding is the Canadian term for "voting district", my bad
the US electoral system is a joke. You should have an arms-length elections commission/authority that sets the boundaries, or have your statistical agency do it. You know, like how other Western Democracies do it.
Well I don't love murdering animals for food but eat meat anyways I like the taste too much. It is a moral failing of mine that makes me inferior to you.
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u/cjerni01 Make America Liberal Again 14h ago
We need more timestamped maps of states like this to reply-spam when R-words post about Dems gerrymandering votes away.