Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak I think so no one can complain, you should just split each state equally with only vertical and horizontal lines. These weird bendy lines are clearly the issue
mr. mander doesn't like this
politics
Thursday, May 14, 2026
I think if you had 10 total vertical, and 10 total horizontal lines, you'd get way less fuckery
you'd still get some gaming over where to place them
but way less than this shit
the straight line state
See, that looks so much better
actually pika
there's a better one
Ontario is mostly fine except the quagmire that is Toronto
wyoming's map
Honestly, just make it one district per state
the maps suck because.... you don't really need a map of it
you guys are directly voting for the leader anyways
they have 1 at-large district
you do not need districts
Yeah, just make it one seat per state
no districts
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak Yeah, just make it one seat per state
The senate does this
make congress do it too
You should have individuals recieve votes, and they get elected to some common house. The party with the most individuals is allowed to form the government
I think thats a good system
proportional systems are weird, in-practice they rarely solve problems because they add more incentive to gridlock and get dissolved as a do-over
and I sorta think democracies naturally trend towards a 2-party system
I don't think they have to
and if you look at history, a 1-party system
but that sample size is smaller
Replying to legorhin #jazardly what we really need is to return to the original 1 rep per 50,000 rule and make the districts so granular that gerrymandering is impossible (edited)
yes
someone posted a good counter-argument in this chat last week
which I agree with, but still think the benefits of smaller districts would improve things even if you end up with fraud in some areas
Replying to PhrogDor #froglandus2 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
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Friday, May 15, 2026
Our state has already decided not to follow gun laws
So I have to drive to the 2nd closest gun store instead of the closest now
it does suck though, because Virginia had the best gun laws in the country (tied with Wyoming for 1st)
and now we'll lose our spot, even if in-practice the state has said you can pass whatever gun laws you want to feel better about yourself, we're ignoring them
Democrats also hate to be reminded of this fact
someone brought it up to the Lt. governor and he said something about how "Even if they don't enforce our laws, Republicans will have to live with themselves knowing they're doing bad things"
Virginia started it,
the governor before Youngkin threatened some stupid law, and everyone realized it was being written for the people in Fairfax/DC and nowhere else
and you can just decide to cite federal law instead of state law
which in this case, is 2A
it's actually got a stronger legal case than immigration sanctuary cities do, which are also legal despite being stupid concepts
Saturday, May 16, 2026
This 100% came out of the China meeting
Nigeria is Chinese clay, and giving the US the head of some ISIS guy is a good stroke to Trump's ego
Russia/China have divied up most of West and Central Africa, we've mostly been fucking around in the South
North Africa and East Africa are actual messes that are going to tear themselves apart any day
Sunday, May 17, 2026
There's a different poll going on rn
but which alien race would you guys want
Monday, May 18, 2026
Dinosaur race
@Phijkchu_Pikachu
lmao
This is an old story, that was trending for some reason (in case people care)
But Pika is a chair appreciator
Tuesday, May 19, 2026