First trailer for Coyote vs. ACME, starring John Cena, Lana Condor, and Will Forte.

The Looney Tunes movie is in theaters on August 28.

Makes their whining about the ballot language being "misleading" all the more contemptuous.

(Not like they manipulate ballot language ever. They would never!)

Javier

I want mixed-member proportional.

Overall party proportions are set by the overall vote, but there are both multi-member districts and single-member districts. That's how Germany and New Zealand do it, and it would help smaller, more particular parties get representation.

Oh my goodness I got about FIVE mailers and DOZENS of YouTube ads saying that redistricting was like Jim Crow ("they're getting rid of two majority-Black districts!"), quoting Obama and Spanberger against gerrymandering (from years ago), and playing a backdrop of Black music styles.

Gross.

Though it's been asymmetrical: Democratic states have more regularly adopted bipartisan or nonpartisan redistricting commissions.

I'll also note that the final margin is about 3%; I posted as soon as it was called, haha.

Thankfully, more bipartisan state-level maps allowed Democrats to claim commanding majorities in the legislature AND we have a Democratic governor through the end of this president's term, at least!

Point to this

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

The Rules Changed. Time to Catch Up. YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

I'll leave this here for anyone who's interesting. Jamelle Bouie's take is basically my (independently reasoned) take.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgMS...

The Rules Changed. Time to Catch Up. YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

@jamellebouie.net summarizes the gerrymandering issue, including how multi-member districts would be preferable.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgMS...

Lol wow.

Nah, Republicans started this with Adulterer-in-Chief's naked, open power grab. Midterm redistricting is not normal.

Democrats will play by Republicans' rules until Republicans quit.

🎮🍕

#CienieVN

I hate gerrymandering. Always have, always will. Mixed-member proportional representation for everyone &, barring that, bipartisan commissions with teeth.

But if one side is going to change the rules (midterm redistricting) to empower an authoritarian, I'm gonna use those new rules to defeat them.

"This is disenfranchising rural voters" -> great, how about urban voters in red states?

"This gets rid of two majority-minority districts" -> great! which party has been dismantling the Voting Rights Act?

"This is unfair" -> great! how many red states use bipartisan redistricting commissions?

The Virginia Supreme Court has a couple issues to resolve, but Republicans clamoring for "fairness" and "bipartisanship" and "transparency" here is all bad-faith.

They let adulterer-in-chief start the midterm redistricting fight. Once they agree to democracy again, we'll go back to bipartisan maps.

I try not to be utterly pedantic, but I will try to invite people to examine their own processes of thought and emotion that get them to believe misinformation.

I've also gotten pushback like the stuff reported in the thread below.

In my anthro world, I decided that no one was sure what species Jesus was, but chose species based on their preferred metaphor.

Catholics, with the emphasis on the suffering Jesus, went with sheep.

Protestants, wanting a more masculine and strong-seeming and non-Catholic Jesus, went with lion.

Malice and incompetence are not mutually exclusive.

The wording was approved through the right processes. Ballot issue wording is always a contest, as people want to shape it to support their side.

Republicans shouldn't have let the adulterer-in-chief start the nationwide midterm redistricting fight. But they did, and Virginia has voted against it.

Do you remember learning about alpacas for the first time?

BTW, for anyone who doubts:

VOTING MATTERS

It's widened since then, and might end up with about a 2-point margin.

Closer than I'd like, but I'll take what I can get to defeat authoritarians.

May they all never sleep again :)

SUCK ON THAT, REPUBLICANS

(Virginia voted to redistrict and remove four Republican members of Congress.)

A male anthro sabertooth cat wearing a hooded cloak.

Was chatting about the TTRPG Wanderhome today and recalled the campaign I started... that ended after one shockingly good session and one extremely scattered session.

But I still like the design of my character!

Gavet, the sabertooth Exile.

#ToledoArt #FurryArt

Mmm yes systems with permanent and unbreakable rules and boundaries, things that have definitely existed and can definitely exist.

This is, indeed, an important thing to think about.
Including such questions as "What prevents the people running your new system from subverting it?" and "Are you really sure that mechanism can never fail and isn't actually dependent on a cultural or personal trait that might change?"