He called the ruling a “huge win” over a “horrible gerrymander.” But Trump himself has ordered many GOP states to gerrymander maximally. So here Trump openly declared that Republicans reserve the right to rig elections while Democrats do not. His actual position is that Republicans should play by their own corrupt rules, a declaration of intent to functionally steal the midterms.
Sigh. We should be beyond this by now.
It doesn’t matter what trump “says”. It matters what trump “does”.
He’ll say a bunch of crazy shit. Unfortunately he also tends to do it. Then the MAGAs normalize it and then it’s “fine”.
We are in a new land. If any EU citizens want to help a like minded American (with some evidence to prove I’m not just a MAGA) break out, please let me know.
This should be a required watch for anyone still believing that the Democratic party or it’s judges in state supreme courts will ever do anything meaningful to stop Fascism.
Epstein files ?
That is so surprising. I wonder if anyone could’ve predicted this.
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Granted, without that point, “[email protected]” implies world politics.
‘Lemmy.world’ is a proper noun, the hostname
Sorry you had a bad day, bro
The solution is to have a computer program draw congressional districts but neither party wants it because they like gerrymandering as long as it benefits it benefits their party.
Computers have been used for gerrymandering since the late 1970s. I know people who worked on it.
The dems have tried to pass a no gerrymandering law multiple times. The states with laws against it are blue states. Dems are bad but you are outright lying to advance a point.
Well, there is absolutely no reason for the Democratic Party to unilaterally disarm.
Fuck that noise.
If the Republicans would get on board with passing a bill to end the practice, then we talk about ending it.
having a computer program do it isn’t some guarantee of unbiasedness, you can easily make a program that will optimize for republican party win
That’s how they do it now. It’s just about which constraints to use, which is why the VRA was so important.
