We need a National Gerrymandering Ban NOW, or Republicans are never winning Congress again, all of our maps are gonna be nuked, well Democrat gerrymaders will remain in place because white people get no legal protections
— Al Carbo (@carbo_al) June 8, 2023
We need a National Gerrymandering Ban NOW, or Republicans are never winning Congress again, all of our maps are gonna be nuked, well Democrat gerrymaders will remain in place because white people get no legal protections
https://twitter.com/carbo_al/status/1666823864029188097?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw
Justice Kavanaugh should be sent to a zoo.
https://twitter.com/lion_politics/status/1666834063284396033?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw
The Supreme Court will allow Illinois to push the most egregious maps in existence because muh state rights, but will force the ridiculous VRA protected districts because what judges wrongfully decided years ago.
https://twitter.com/realpdata/status/1666823619916210176?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw
SCOTUS has a liberal majority
https://twitter.com/basedkartveli/status/1666823087478693888?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw
We shouldβve listened to Christine Blasey Ford.
https://twitter.com/basedpatriot75/status/1666821325871284224?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw
I used to oppose a gerrymandering ban because it hurt me politically, but now I support it because it would help me politically.
https://twitter.com/socalpopulist/status/1666833806958157826?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw
Absolutely. We should have let those women destroy kavanaugh instead of defending his pansy butt
https://twitter.com/outcast___777/status/1666842878679879680?s=46&t=OF0eVPk77761tC-a93Iehw
today is a great victory for me too
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i love gerrymandering and the debt ceiling because only the [losing/winning] side seethes about it at any given moment
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Dramapilled take.
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I'm pretty sure only the Rethuglicans gerrymander
Edit: See the chuds attempting to disagree with me below
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Republicans depend on it a lot more.
There's a reason the GOP fights against gerrymander bans
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Isnβt that cute
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Itβs less cute and more a threat to our democracy!
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Lol imagine people getting upset about pointing out one side's tactics, very undramapilled
the correct read is that gerrymandering is an excellent defense of the red tribal lands against the colonizing efforts of the blue urban enclaves
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As in an actual gerrymander ban or a ban on corrupt gerrymandering?
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A ban period.
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Thats a ridiculous thing to lobby for lmao
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Why?
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Well the idea is essentially that you draw a map based around what you think the demographics of an area will be in order to give proportional representation of what those people are like? So for example if you have one well off area with a massive population but a dozen poor areas with smaller populations the idea is that a good gerrymander could help those people right?
The problem is that Rethugs draw demographics in ways that disadvantage minority groups - so instead of drawing a district map to have two white areas and two black areas they draw the map so theres three white areas that cut into one black area right?
So the idea, at its core, is a good one. Which makes the idea of banning it strange to me when it can easily be fixed by having independent third parties do the gerrymanders and not the people who run the show
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There are algos that draw perfect maps void of bias, fair maps.
Those are generally what are being pushed.
It isnt even primarily minority groups.
They're drawing maps that make political solutions essentially impossible.
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democrats would never take advantage of something that helps them win elections
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laughs in Illinois
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Republicans attempt to gerrymander black people so they can put them back in chains.
Massachusetts and New York do not gerry mander. The districts just happened to be that way.
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Both sides absolutely do it, but repulichads are way better at it, primarily because they are increasingly dependent on finding ways to eke out electoral victories while losing the popular vote. They can't win simple majorities anymore, and they know it, so their election strategies are all about things like suppressing turnout and manipulating electoral maps, etc.
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