• loie@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    If Barack Obama

    Told California Democrats

    To gerrymander their map so he wouldn’t lose the House

    Conservatives would have lost their goddamned minds.

    (Again.)

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      Of course. Those two scenarios are totally different, though. As different as black and white …

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      I remember when new Mexico a strong blue state gerrymandering and even though we a Lil guy republican cried and cried but we just said we playing by your rules fuck faces

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      Are you actually going to try to say that Democrats don’t engage in gerrymandering? Really?

      Barack Obama wouldn’t tell California Democrats to gerrymander their map so they’d keep the house. He wouldn’t have to, because they’d do it anyway. Just like every other Democrat state would. And just like every other Republican state does. Trump telling Texas to do it is redundant because it’s something that Texas was going to do anyway.

      And yes, Conservatives lose their shit when a Democrat does it. And Democrats lose their shit when a Republican does it. Because they both try to play the game under “Rules for thee, not for me” rules. But the fact of the matter is, for better or worse, gerrymandering is a part of our electoral system that both parties routinely engage in in order to maintain their majority.

      It’s literally an example of “Don’t hate the player, hate the game”.