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Racial gerrymandering is the only reason the fuckers (GQP) won the house.
I will never understand how the court found that materially disenfranchising voters by packing and cracking them to dilute their political influence is part of a free and fair election. Their solution is to just vote for people who wont gerrymander. So how does that work when your influence is already gerrymandered, or you have a max of 10 years to overcome a gerrymander or have all of your gained influence undone with a new gerrymander. And its really hard especially in southern states to separate race from politics when 9 out of 10 black voters support Democrats.
I live next to district 6 (Clyburn) which is packed to hell to ensure district 1 (Mace) stays republican. They fit all of the urban areas they could and packed it into one district, surgically placing the most liberal areas and the towns with the highest percentage of minorities to pack it as much as they could. It has the downtown areas of Charleston AND Columbia in it, two cities about a 90 minute drive away from each other. Its a travesty. >

Check out this short documentary The election of George Washington was weirder than you think. The author goes into the details of the creation of our electoral system and he describes the Federalists who wanted to just count votes and tally them up at the state level. The anti-Federalists insisted upon breaking the voters up into districts because then they could ensure that rural voters would have more say in the outcome of elections. We still suffer the consequences of this decision to this day. People seem to be realizing that it is an antiquated mechanism of control and not the ultra-fair process like we've been led to believe. Hopefully that can lead to positive change in our extremely flawed system. >

A bit related here. Alexander Hamilton, a founding father, said democracy was a parasite and was against representation democracy. He wasn’t as good as the play makes him out to be and a congressional report from the 1940’s found him to be an influential figure for the Nazis. He did things like fight for the Tories after the Revolutionary War in court against his fellow countrymen. Aaron Burr is really who people should be looking to. Even though historians make him to be the bad guy because he killed Hamilton during their duel. And even though Hamilton wrote a letter before the duel saying he was going to let Burr shoot first so that stories went out that Burr sounded blood hungry. >

Isn't Burr more of a villain for his attempted treason and trying to sell out Florida? >

Dude he would be a National hero if he managed to offload that piece of turd >

Our continental dingleberry >

Damn, we just got demoted from wang of the nation to dingleberry >

They lumped two of SC's biggest cities North Charleston and Columbia, which are 120 miles apart, into one district. >

Parts of Austin Texas share a district with San Antonio roughly 90 minutes away AND El Paso which is 9 hours away. Other parts of Austin are in a district with Rio Grande City 5 hours away on the southern border. Austin also shares a district with Hooks, Tx some 5 hours away, damn near Louisiana. I believe only one of these districts is Democrat. It’s shit like this that causes half of Texas residents to have no representation within their own state and in the federal government. Texas representatives only support their voters not the entire population. This can only go so long before shit starts to get ugly. >

I love that there is a picture of Austin's gerrymandered ass in books about unethical district drawing. They call it "the pinwheel". 
Also, seems like a lot of people forgot that Tom DeLay had a big part of his fall from power related to that gerrymander, but it never actually got fixed. >

Supremacist Court >

A fascist court gave a fascist state the right to make fascist laws, but people will tell you fascism doesn't exist in America. >

I feel like I am taking crazy pills:  1/3 of the country outright wants fascism; 1/3 of the country is too apathetic to care... I'm in the fucking minority. >

To be fair, if it’s split evenly three ways, everyone is in the minority. >

If you very much want America to be a democracy, then you very much are in the minority.
In 2020 it was 81 million Americans who were willing to make the effort to vote to stop fascism. 81 million is about a third of eligible voters.
74 million (a little less than a third) voted for fascism, and about a third of eligible voters couldn't be bothered to vote at all. >


and about a third of eligible voters couldn't be bothered to vote at all.

Saying things like this completely ignores the whole point of the OP article: voter disenfranchisement. Apathy is an issue, particularly among younger voters, but glossing over the fact that some people want to vote and can't is disingenuous. >

Ok, I'm ready to be educated.
About 80 million eligible voters did not cast a ballot in 2020. How many of them were disenfranchised, what states did they live in, and by what means were they disenfranchised? >

Were you not paying attention during 2020? Voter purges, "lost" ballots, closed polling stations, armed thugs guarding polling stations. Republicans did everything they could to stop as many people from voting against them as possible.
I don't know what the percentage is of people who didn't vote because they never cared, versus the people who couldn't vote or were discouraged. 
But saying that people didn't show up because they don't care is bullshit. I'm willing to bet that the majority of that 80,000,000 care. >

Yes they did >

Supreme Court logic:
Racial admissions to colleges = wrong. 
Racial gerrymandering for elections = right. >

would be a good meme >

That drake meme would work, but you'd also have to add a panel saying Drake meme is bad because he's black. >

(and not American) >

The US Supreme Court is an illegitimate institution owned by Christian fascists. >

Historically it has usually been the one c0ckblocking good laws.  During the New Deal era it became decent but is now reverting to the norm.  It's not likely that democrats will get a majority on the court again due to inability to control the senate much going forward.
So expanding the court is actually a dumb idea.  It will only be temporary.  
Better approach is to push for states rights so blue states can at least perserve their way of life instead of the federal hammer coming down. >

Republicans don't really believe in states rights, as soon as enough of those christofascist assholes get into power, that federal hammer is going to be coming down really fucking hard on blue states. >

The Supreme Court hates freedom. >

Add 4 >

Add 10, enact a 19-year term limit, and appoint a new one every year. >

If fascists are afraid of court packing, then it must be a good thing. >

How much more sovereignty must the working people lose before action is taken to combat this fascist court? >

They should have acted in 2016. It was as obvious then as it is today. But nope, lots and lots of working class people were convinced a "rich" mobster would have their backs. You really think people are going to change over one ruling after seeing them openly support the forces that lead to this over the last half decade? >

Weird how you can basically gerrymander any way you like in red states, but in blue states it gets reversed for being "unfair." >

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Frank Wilhoit >

Roberts is a eunuch. Its now the Alito court. >

Don't let anyone fool you. The majority opinion knew exactly what they were doing. >

Can you explain to me how redistricting could be considered racist? Genuinely curious. >

Crack racial populations into separate districts to dilute their vote so they fail to be a majority in one district.  Or pack them all up into fewer districts so they win fewer seats by far higher districts to prevent them being more evenly distributed and getting more seats.
Redistricting itself doesn't have to be racist but it can be weaponized to be so. >

Yep, that’s what I was looking for. Not racist. 
Appreciate it. >

This is my district and its in Charleston, SC where we aren't backwards AF like a large portion of the rest of the state. 
This district would've been blue again if not for the gerrymandering.
They basically split downtown charleston in half and removed other areas where more younger liberal voters are and gave it to Columbia which is 2 hours away. WTF >

Charlestonian here, we're still backwards AF, but rural SC is a hell of a measuring stick. >

Yea at least Charleston County is like 1% more blue than red. No representation though. >

Supreme Court has enabled racism since inception. This is simply a variant. >

Uhhh have u read the history of ussc decisions
The court has bounced from ideologies of people like Chief Justice Marshall  (judicial review) to Chief Justice john Taney (dred scott) to thurgood Marshall .