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Stupid goo goo nonsense. The only way to get fair districting is to pinch republicans in the mouth enough until they agree to fairness. Doing this with Callais days away from ripping up the VRA is so stupid I don’t know where to begin.

no actually, “we gerrymander as revenge for their gerrymander” is the bad stuff. if you can’t win with a level playing field, tilting the field is not a long- or even medium-term solution (and nationalizing state politics is also bad)

And until then just live meekly under fascism? This is your problem. It seems if you had to choose between ending gerrymandering or ending fascism, you'd choose gerrymandering.

So in other words, let Republicans maintain control of the House for another 2 years after picking up 5 extra seats in Texas due to their gerrymander? Or we fight fire with fire, get a Dem majority and pass a national ban on gerrymandering and draw fair districts (un-tilt like Michigan)

Yes. The GOP is the most extreme major party in the world, they are a fascist, racist and traitorous cult of personality to a madman. The country can not move forward in any way until they at least suffer such a huge loss that they are forced to change.

you know that that’s what the right wing is currently trying to do to everyone they don’t like, and we think it’s bad? you know that, right?

these people don’t understand fairness or reciprocity, all they care about is power. they’re schoolyard bullies picking on all the other kids because they think no one will give them the same energy back. part of protecting democracy long-term is showing that undermining it leads to MAD.

NC GOP straight up ignored state court orders to draw new maps and then captured the courts in a following election. They stripped our governor of powers like the veto. There is no "un-tilting " this state within its own borders without a state constitutional crisis.