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  • Well, they’d have to be very careful in that language. The cons absolutely used computers to draw maps - it was the REDMAP scheme.

    What must be emphasized is independent commissions to draw district lines, perhaps informed by computers. But computers can and have been weaponized to draw maps - the REDMAP scheme is called “gerrymandering on steroids” and it’s that way because of computers turned to nefarious ends.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP

    The project has made effective use of partisan gerrymandering by relying on previously unavailable mapping software, such as Caliper Corporation’s Maptitude to improve the precision with which district lines are strategically drawn.






  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act#Unsuccessful_narrower_proposal:_Freedom_to_Vote_Act

    Of course, unhelpful dumbasses did a “compromise” version in the Freedom to Vote Act (which had voter ID requirements and got rid of the requirement to offer no-excuse mail-in voting and same-day voter registration - thanks Manchin, you asshole. What a “centrist”. Same for Klobuchar. So unhelpful. ).

    In early June 2021, Manchin came out against the For the People Act,[109] but later that month proposed a list of changes that, if adopted, would allow him to support the legislation.[110] The compromise proposal, the Freedom to Vote Act (S. 2747), was formally introduced by Manchin, Amy Klobuchar, and other Democratic senators on September 14, 2021.[111][112] It kept many parts of the original bill (including automatic voter registration for eligible citizens, making Election Day a holiday, creating a minimum 15-day early voting period for federal elections, and a prohibition on partisan gerrymandering), but added several voter ID requirements[113] and dropped several other provisions in the original bill, such as a requirement for states to offer no-excuse mail-in voting and same-day voter registration.[114][111] A Brennan Center for Justice research report said that the narrowed bill “contains the vast majority of the most critical provisions that were in the For the People Act, although it does also reflect some important concessions that were needed to achieve unity among Senate Democrats.”[111]

    IMHO, Democrats should absolutely constantly message uniformly on this, and ask Republicans why it is that they want to make it so very hard to vote. Over and over again, keep asking them. Don’t let them do their horseshit Gish Gallop routines about “illegals”, either.










  • These people are so fucking stupid. They were all hot to trot to blame inflation and gas prices on “Bidenomics” when everything was opening back up in the spring/summer of 2022, LOL.

    You’d ask them exactly WHICH policies caused that? Crickets or just pseudointellectual babble.

    Now that we can draw a DIRECT line between what PEDOnald unilaterally did, without question, and without permission, right to the explosion of costs for everything, they don’t want to talk about it.