I will always remember the day Gritty came to Philly. There were two or three hours of being outraged at being forced to accept a dopey mascot for league rules.

Then we realized exactly *why* this orange stranger had come to our city. He said he wished to kill, and we cried and opened our arms

Oh you live a much different life than we do here lol

With 1,000 districts, you can't gerrymander. You don't need 10x that for that issue.

Or you don't need anymore than we have right now if we have proportional representation.

Lmfao a small town of 30,000.

I grew up in a town smaller than that and didn't know more than a couple thousand people.

You're delusional.

Representatives are very much popular in their districts.

There's not a problem with representation.

You've never experienced the median person, have you lmfao

None of these people have proxy voting power, actually.

You're saying we'd be giving proxy votes that the populace never voted on.

Why just recreate the exact system we have now, but more complicated, less directly accountable and worse?

So the representative democracy would have another layer of unelected representative democracy on top of it lol

They're doing con Bsky posting on X the Everything App

Unironically a point of solidarity between the staff and building administration at my school, district administration has higher pay, while the two separate unions for staff and building admin are working together for better pay.

choose your faction:
- I made a vape that's also a hammer
- Hammers are going to become god & change everything
- I tried holding the hammer by the head and it didn't work, this is bullshit
- Hammers are useful tools sometimes
- Hammers? You mean murder-tools, as seen in the documentary The Raid 2?

I mean the obvious part is lawyers think they can just get partner or their own firm and be the fucked management themselves, right?

UAW has a lot of members that are also pink collar workers.

Are you serious?

There's no possible way to coordinate action over a group of people this large for every single vote that will be made.

If you thought Congress was paralyzed before, this would end its functioning entirely.

unpopular opinion guy

i think it is actually totally fine if urban areas with their higher density populations and higher levels of education have a proportionally greater say in national politics than less-dense and less-educated rural areas

fun fact: two years after Manchin won in West Virginia, a left wing populist ran on this exact platform… and lost to a corporate Republican by 40 points

the conservative white working class doesn’t vote for wealth distribution. they are temporarily embarrassed billionaires who love daddy Trump

The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do

No, this is a bad and dumb idea.

All NJ needs to is win in NJ07 this year.

There's a reach district available in NJ02, but to gerrymander it to safely Dem is very hard to not dummymander.

BREAKING: The Virginia GOP has escaped to Southwest VA under Generalissimo Jason Miyares following a massive defeat by Comrade Spanberger's Red Guard in Charlottesville and Southeast Virginia.

Spanberger has said that she and Jay Jones will push forward to "make all of Virginia woke."

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

More reps

I love my country, New Jersey

That's not what I said.

You don't even need to WORK in NYS to pay NYS income tax.

Famously, the Superbowl is a lower threat level, and that this isn't just a scam by FIFA.

You literally don't need to work in NY to pay NYS income tax lmfao

I'll stay a proud subscriber to Inky, if just to see what these people start to complain about when people further left than Mayor Parker start to get into power

It's a shame AI wrote the copy for this crypto scam, because otherwise it would have said "real men become crypto griftees".

Nevertheless.