Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131
Indiana just primaried out most of the republican state reps who refused to redistrict, maybe other states are noticing
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Thursday, May 7, 2026
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 In an optimistic point of view, I wonder if this downward spiral into gerrymandering every state will get people upset enough to do away with this. Maine does rank choice voting, which is cool. I know it isn't some panacea but
all of the states have a justification to redistrict now that the race based representation thing has finally been overturned
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 In an optimistic point of view, I wonder if this downward spiral into gerrymandering every state will get people upset enough to do away with this. Maine does rank choice voting, which is cool. I know it isn't some panacea but
It's an issue of theory versus practice
Ranked choice should produce conditions for better candidates, but not if we still have a small number of seats and the monetary hurdle to run remains high (mostly due to campaign length)
Practically, the system also sorta relies on things being swingy, versus a pure proportional system
That's a democracy problem in general though
The most impactful change we could make would be to expand the house, which I think would improve a lot of these conditions and at least sorta serve as a release valve for how ineffectual congress is
Fixing the senate is another issue, but you need a working part of Congress to start from, and right now none of it works
States fare better when they're ambitious, but most governors don't do anything other than fundraise for their political party
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 The most impactful change we could make would be to expand the house, which I think would improve a lot of these conditions and at least sorta serve as a release valve for how ineffectual congress is
Kinda sorta, but you gotta deport a fuck load of people first to ensure immigrants don't directly then disenfranchise the voting of the domestic population
It's a good point to raise, I just don't think there are honestly that many places that would end up worse
definitely more than zero, some locality where they dropped 10,000 haitians or w/e
but I think without expanding the house, it's hard to prevent districts from being packed, just given how many people are in each one now
I am talking about federally becoming exponentially worse because you have likely 50-100 million people who are of dubious status who should not be here. Counting them on census in such districts and many already voting dubiously would flood the system in a one sided way mostly due to cali, ny, ect
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131
Friday, May 8, 2026
Holy shit that tweet is sargon of applebees
I still like the lore the reform exists as a party because they brought sargon into ukip and he said he wouldn't even rape another female mp which tanked the party so hard farage quit
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak I still like the lore the reform exists as a party because they brought sargon into ukip and he said he wouldn't even rape another female mp which tanked the party so hard farage quit
he should have backed down and raped her to save the party
Replying to legorhin #jazardly
Happy we got the outcome, still surprised it was needed
The vote being 51-49 and the court ruling being 3-4, neither are a great sign
It was so plainly illegal in Virginia, and done in such a hilarious way
That I had every confidence this is the way the court would rule
Just kind of crazy in either case it was close
That + the fact they literally called it jerrymandering
It was something along the lines of "suspend the Virginia constitution and the bipartisan redistricting committee to implement temporary districts to enforce voting fairness"
Yeah I remember the wording being posted when the vote happened
it was so fucked
Yep, Max is right
Question: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?
There was a bunch of other legal nonsense they had on the ballot to, to justify why it was even legal to amend the state constitution without a supermajority
The entire thing broke the state constitution 3 different ways
Obama literally campaigning for jerrymandering was also so perfectly on-point for him
Most on a special election ever
~$100M total
I think 2026 will be razer thin margins
But Democrats need to win desperately
So they're doing anything in their oower