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by ok_dad 47 days ago
There’s also all the crime trump and his cronies are trying to distract from that they’re doing by ignoring laws and taking bribes and stuff.
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Yeah, but like whatabout…
Wait you’re what abutting me?

What about all the red states who started the gerrymandering?

That’s the real question.

Why are you calling out one but not the other?

Because you’re a partisan hack

> red states who started the gerrymandering

My memory starts more than a year ago.

California, Illinois, and New York, rigged decades earlier than your screen told you to be mad at republicans who in reality are playing catch up on gerrymandering.

But I noticed you’re trying to avoid the actual point.

Virginia illegally pushed a new map against their own state constitution and their Supreme Court shot it down. Cry more about it.

Yes, I’m a partisan hack. Yeah that’s what’s going on here. You read the referendum question they pushed in Virginia and pretend you’re on the correct side of legitimacy.

>California, Illinois, and New York, rigged decades earlier than your screen told you to be mad at republicans who in reality are playing catch up on gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering gave Republicans more seats than they deserved if all votes were equal in 2010 (+9), 2012 (+19), 2014 (+17), 2016 (+21), 2018 (+2), 2020 (+2). The closing of the gap since 2018 is the reason why Republicans restarted gerrymandering and made it their platform.

My memory also starts more than a year ago, but I have clear data to show that gerrymandering over-represented the GOP for more than a decade - on top of the Senate being structurally biased in favor of Republicans.