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Cylent1 said:
Your TDS has entered stage 4 at this point!
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Every time.
 
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AncientBoi said:
uhh, it's missing the tRUMP Pull-up diapers. :mellow: js

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Eh, I believe that particular image is AI-generated, but I would not be surprised if he does wear adult diapers. The guy is known for being incontinent, and even decade earlier on his show, he literally had someone hired to clean up his messes.
 
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Cylent1 said:
There you all go crashing out again. You have to learn to contain your emotions or they will get the best of you.
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I'm guessing in your head, you imagine me raging on my keyboard. Couldn't be more off the mark, as usual. It's more shaking my head in distain and disgust for anyone who would willfully protect this criminal pedo president.

Most of his defenders have realized there's little to defend anymore. You're just too slow to realize that. :D
 
Dark_Ansem said:
Well, apparently republikkkans are deciding fair elections aren't gonna be a thing anymore.
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ROFLMAO

So Democrats create the KKK
Democrats try to keep slaves
Democrats create Jim Crow Laws
Democrats vote against desegragation
SPLC, run by Democrats, get caught funding the KKK


And you're all pissed off because the Supreme Court said you're not allowed to redistrict based off of race.

And you say Repulikkkans... as if you're clever. :rofl2:
 
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Foxi4 said:
Democrats don’t show up to compete in the area, Democrats most affected? I don’t think that’s any reason at all to provide them with a handicap. Their unwillingness to build good will and a presence over time is no excuse to “balance the playing field” in an underhanded way. It’s not the legislature’s job to artificially improve their election odds.
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Southern states used to elect conservative to moderate democrats before political realignment started in 1960s with transition mostly completed by 1994 as southern voters switch to republicans, however many state legislatures and local area didn't see the change until after 2010s.

Urban goes solid democrat, suburb become lean democrat to swing with some went republican and rural become solid republican, so rural democrats are almost dead outside of majority minority areas. Back in 1980s and 1990s, suburb was solid republican with exceptions.

Alabama have never elect the liberal governor, so it is mostly conservative with sometime, moderate. Don't matter if democrat or republican, they are still conservative.

Most blacks used to vote republicans until realignment started in 1930s but massive didn't switch until 1960s after passage of Civil Rights Act. Under Voter Rights Act (VRA), states had to create majority minority district as long as it is compact and connected with community - it only worked if population is big enough to fill the congressional district. The racial gerrymandering didn't start until later when court ruled in 1980s that state had to create majority black district, so if not enough, they had resort to oddly shaped or out of original - it was common in 1990s.

US Supreme Court didn't opt to overturn the VRA nor extended protection under 1982 amendment, nor override Allen v. Milligan. It make legal more complicated - if state is unable to create one without violate the constitution, so they are unlikely to include the minority district. Right now, you may heard about Alabama tried to get out but it is unlikely because they agreed to keep current map until 2030 and their district isn't gerrymandered on extreme scale as one in Louisiana, so it means white voters in Alabama would have to sue to initialize the court battle, but US Supreme Court could end up saying current map don't violate the constitution. That is going to be patchworks that where some congressional district maps are okay and others are not. They only struck it down on one of congressional district in Louisiana, so they have to draw the new map and they can be still litigated. It's not over until the Congress reform the law or resolve the issue with gerrymandering.

There are some in the Congress supported to end the gerrymandering for all maps but many politicians don't like because they want to preserve the power or keep under party control.
 
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urherenow said:
ROFLMAO

So Democrats create the KKK
Democrats try to keep slaves
Democrats create Jim Crow Laws
Democrats vote against desegragation
SPLC, run by Democrats, get caught funding the KKK


And you're all pissed off because the Supreme Court said you're not allowed to redistrict based off of race.

And you say Repulikkkans... as if you're clever. :rofl2:
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Imagine thinking that each party is constant. That they never change..... or people within them never shift parties when their prior one doesn't do what they like. Those "Democrats" that created the KKK were Confederate veterans, largely the whites from the south. The party itself did not create them. And you think those veterans who are alive today are still Democrats?

Hell, pretty much all the things you mentioned happened to be from those southern whites, in the territory that is pretty aligned with the GOP today.
 
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urherenow said:
ROFLMAO

So Democrats create the KKK
Democrats try to keep slaves
Democrats create Jim Crow Laws
Democrats vote against desegragation
SPLC, run by Democrats, get caught funding the KKK


And you're all pissed off because the Supreme Court said you're not allowed to redistrict based off of race.

And you say Repulikkkans... as if you're clever. :rofl2:
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Replace democrats with conservatives then you've fixed this for accuracy.

Like seriously this is taught sophomore year. How embarrassing to have said this and out yourself on how uneducated and unintelligent you are.

Unless you have some other explanation as to why current KKK members, confederates, Nazis, etc are overwhelmingly MAGA?

Maybe it's y'all's attraction to minors. (Which btw someone found proof of a few months back and we didn't forget).
 
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DiscostewSM said:
Imagine thinking that each party is constant. That they never change..... or people within them never shift parties when their prior one doesn't do what they like. Those "Democrats" that created the KKK were Confederate veterans, largely the whites from the south. The party itself did not create them. And you think those veterans who are alive today are still Democrats?

Hell, pretty much all the things you mentioned happened to be from those southern whites, in the territory that is pretty aligned with the GOP today.
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Biden was one of those whites... that voted against civil rights and desegregation. Still a Democrat. Elected POTUS as a Democrat. Sorry, but the tune has never changed. Other than adding in more racists against whites, and anti-nationalists, while you're at it. KKK funding... still caught the Democrats doing it. What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to still believe in the party swap? The biggest swap was with the VOTERS, not the congress. They swapped because they were pissed off at how many Democrats voted against those things.
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Replace democrats with conservatives then you've fixed this for accuracy.
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Conservative Values: The founders were conservative in the sense that they aimed to conserve the pre-Civil War social order, including white supremacy and racial hierarchy, which was threatened by the Republican-led Reconstruction.

They were democrats. Period.
 
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urherenow said:
Biden was one of those whites... that voted against civil rights and desegregation. Still a Democrat. Elected POTUS as a Democrat. Sorry, but the tune has never changed. Other than adding in more racists against whites, and anti-nationalists, while you're at it. KKK funding... still caught the Democrats doing it. What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to still believe in the party swap? The biggest swap was with the VOTERS, not the congress. They swapped because they were pissed off at how many Democrats voted against those things.
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Sigh:

Conservative Values: The founders were conservative in the sense that they aimed to conserve the pre-Civil War social order, including white supremacy and racial hierarchy, which was threatened by the Republican-led Reconstruction.

They were democrats. Period.
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Figures you don't actually know the situation, and are likely just referring to Fox News interpretation. Biden wasn't against civil rights, nor was he against desegregation. In fact, what he was against in terms of desegregation was the court-ordered, mandatory busing as a tool for it, calling it ineffective and asinine, that it would increase racial tension as opposed to fixing the root cause. His proposal was housing integration as a better method.

You want to talk about mental gymnastics? You talk about the democrats swapping to republican because they were against those things, except, what we see in the republican party are people for those things. The ones that swapped were the ones in favor. You just can't accept that is what history shows, and we see Trump doing everything he can to rewrite it.

Now kindly sit your bitch-ass whataboutisms down, because you can't even open a history book when you're deep-throating whatever Trump and his band of misfits tell you.
 
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Moe87 said:
US Supreme Court didn't opt to overturn the VRA nor extended protection under 1982 amendment, nor override Allen v. Milligan. It make legal more complicated - if state is unable to create one without violate the constitution, so they are unlikely to include the minority district.
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That is *not* what the court has decided. The court has decided that race cannot be the predominant motivation (to the detriment of all other core characteristics of a district). I don’t know why one would argue in favour of creating the district equivalent of racial ghettos.
 
It's really quite simple: the court's decision means representatives will choose their voters from now on, instead of the other way around, because conservatives hate and fear democracy. If you thought district lines were wonky before, it's about to get so much worse, because that's the only way to fit more major metros into fewer districts, and disenfranchise as many people as possible. The people who still fly the confederate flag will look you dead in the eye and swear to god it's just coincidence that this also means there will be a lot fewer opportunities to elect minority representatives, but it's not worth arguing with people that John Brown would've shot.

SCOTUS has chosen illegitimacy, the power must be returned to the people one way or another.
 
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