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Redcaps were the kids calling "Time Out!" right before you tagged them (lemmy.world)
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[–] 13 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I agree that it could lead to finally banning gerrymandering entirely, but I don't consider it rigging. It's legal, so it's just a form of Hard Ball, and the Dems wouldn't be doing it if MAGA hadn't done it first.

It's about time the Dems started fighting fire with fire.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    I still wouldn't call it rigging, because it IS legal. It's more like influencing in a legal manner.

    Is it fair? No, but it's legal, so it's NOT rigging, by definition. It's the same with the Electoral College. There are ways to manipulate it, and they aren't specifically illegal, so it's not rigging.

    Make gerrymandering and Electoral College illegal, and then manipulating them would be rigging.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    There has been a lot of MAGA discussion about gaming the Electoral College as well, like splitting a state's votes between parties. Its the next frontier after gerrymandering, although the gerrymandering thing hasn't worked out so well for them this time, so maybe they'll reconsider messing with the Electoral College.

    Ah, who am I kidding? These MAGA morons never learn from their mistakes, they just blame somebody else, and keep being stupid.

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