• loie@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    If Barack Obama

    Told California Democrats

    To gerrymander their map so he wouldn’t lose the House

    Conservatives would have lost their goddamned minds.

    (Again.)

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      7 days ago

      Of course. Those two scenarios are totally different, though. As different as black and white …

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      7 days ago

      I remember when new Mexico a strong blue state gerrymandering and even though we a Lil guy republican cried and cried but we just said we playing by your rules fuck faces

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        There are different kinds of players in the same game. But I agree that the whole ability to bend districts in any favored direction should be removed. There are impartial ways to determine districts that change over time with the population, but neither side likes them because it’s a loss of control and potential loss of seats for both. The irony is that it would favor the left more, just like changing how we vote would favor that lean, but that gets into the issue of what “left” means in the US vs. reality, and maybe that’s part of the problem as well.

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            They tried. All those big ass states out west weren’t states at the time and they all said fuck you guys with all your people and shit. So compromises were made.