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Gerrymandering is part of the mechanism by which the GOP consolidates power to more easily enact voter suppression at every level. Claiming that gerrymandering doesn’t affect Presidential elections when there is a direct causal link from theft of power at the state level to suppression of overall voter turnout is

Also, gerrymandering affects the House and state level stuff, but not presidential elections.

“Folks, look, if you start off with the notion there’s nothing you can do [to work with Republicans], well, might you all go home then, man?” Biden said, according to the New York Times. “Or let’s start a real, physical revolution if you’re talking about it. Because we have to be able to change what we’re doing

Oh, they don’t ignore it - they claim that it never happened, that the Southern Strategy is a liberal conspiracy to discredit the GOP, and that any evidence to the contrary is fabricated.

Running on a strong gun control platform in a extremely gun friendly state isn’t getting you votes in a conservative district.

Just discussing postcards, I’m sure.

Leopards, faces, etc. ad nauseam.

Update #7 from the original GoFundMe:

Yeah, I’m starting to get flashbacks to 2016 when some writers were literally telling people in “safe” states that they could “vote their conscience” because Hillary had them so obviously in the bag that voting Green or Libertarian (and don’t doubt that some potential D voters went Libertarian because Johnson was

As a BRD main, one of the changes made me giddier than I thought a mechanics change could:

Intolerance to alternative points of view is not what the Democratic Party should be about.

The party’s electoral strategy is based on the 70 or 80 seats, at most, that are in play during any given election cycle, which makes sense.

That entire article has one huge pro-insurance slant to it that anyone who’s worked in the field would point at and scream.

I mean, we all know that blackface is bad because of it’s strong association with racism and particularly minstrel shows in the American South. It seems to me that the problem with blackface is not necessarily the representation of someone of another race, but rather the disrespectful, racist, or “othering”

There’s a definite argument to be made that Wikileaks has contributed some net good to the world by ensuring that major world powers cannot break international law with total impunity, but the fact is that neither Assange nor his organization saw fit to go through the documents they were releasing for proper

Only tangentially related, but your mention of the school newspaper reminded me of my own time at a right-leaning college at around the same time. The editor of the school paper was almost always an unrepentant douchecanoe no matter who it was. My freshman year, the editor’s work included an article on the

I actually have a cable with the USB symbol and seam on the same side on my desk right now. I have to use the seam to know which way to insert the ‘A’ end because the symbol’s on the wrong side.

Correction: “ABAWD” is “Able-Bodied Adult without Dependents”, not “Without Disabilities”. But that’s tangential to the larger issue regarding the “Able-Bodied” part of that, anyway - in order to be considered “disabled” for SNAP purposes, here are the criteria:

Uh, the US requires vaccinations as part of the immigration process. And asylum seekers can be quarantied. So we already do curtail the “right” of immigrants to enter the country without vaccinations, leaving only those who are here without documentation in the class of those possibly unvaccinated. And they’re not the

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