Submitted by Yelloeisok t3_zvrbzs in Pennsylvania
[deleted] t1_j1qtro5 wrote
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artificialavocado t1_j1r38z5 wrote
I understand it perfectly. The republicans are doing shenanigans with the “majority” because they are trying to contest the “total” and push back special elections that will settle it definitively. It’s not that hard.
We made it clear last month we don’t want this MAGA shit here anymore. Move to fucking Florida or Alabama if you want MAGA.
Advanced-Guard-4468 t1_j1r5u02 wrote
If the Republicans are or aren't following the rule of law that will be determined by the judge.
It has nothing to do with Trump. If you made it clear you would have won a super majority, you didn't. The state like most parts of the country are very equal with representation. The dems won state election because they carried the major population areas yet still fail to carry the more rural parts.
EarthRester t1_j1r666q wrote
Land doesn't vote.
Advanced-Guard-4468 t1_j1r6hr5 wrote
No, but the people that live there do and they are entitled to representation just like urban people are.
susinpgh t1_j1r8oo8 wrote
Their representation should represent the proportion of the population, not an out-sized vote that devalues the vote of the majority. The minority needs to learn to compromise instead of breaking the rules like they've been doing for the last fifty years.
spicynuggies t1_j1ra703 wrote
Elections and district drawing are not as simple as you think.
Advanced-Guard-4468 t1_j1rb5ll wrote
I never said they were.
FairyFlossPanda t1_j1rjx5v wrote
So you support fair non partisan redistricting that gives everyone a better chance to get representatives that share their values? Or are you one of those dipshits that goes "Hurr Durr look at all the big red splotches." Never mind some of those splotches have 10 people and an old cow living there but get outsized influence because of the way things currently are.
Let's put this another way. Say you lived in an apartment building and one guy for some reason rents 10 apartments. Lets say there are 5 other appartments and each one has 1 to 2 people in it. Now let's say your landlord is awesome and lets you guys vote on things like quiet hours, living space rules etc. Does he get more say because he physically takes up more space? Do the rest of you just give up? Well everyone else wanted quiet hours from 11 pm to 7 am but Dan decided he wants this place to be 24 hour quiet hours? We wanted a Christmas Tree in the lobby but Dan voted for a tower of dildos so Merry Fucking Christmas.
Oh and by the way I was very close to someone who went to church with one of the main republicans invovled in this. When he confronted him about the stopen election stuff and the conspiracies the rep said he knew it was b.s. but it was what people were calling him about so he had to pretend to believe it. And he didnt want to upset the voters.
Advanced-Guard-4468 t1_j1rl3ae wrote
You could have asked me like an adult and asked about gerrymandering, instead you asked and explained it to me like I'm a five year old. Since you didn't you don't deserve an answer.
So the rep who gerrymandered the districts said that's what the voters wanted. Sure they did, not everyone believes win at all costs.
FairyFlossPanda t1_j1rljbz wrote
Sooo gonna assume the answer is "no I like things how they are because my side gets to play dirty but I dont wanna say that cause I'll look like a prick."
Advanced-Guard-4468 t1_j1rm0en wrote
You know what they say about assume...
No I'm not the prick here
Add:
There is nothing clean about politics. It's raw and dirty it always has been. Do I like it no.
MansourBahrami t1_j1r77vs wrote
It’s basically “rural colonization” at this point. We have bigger numbers in the big cities so we can tell you what to do from 500 miles away since we can outvote you in two small locations.
Basically what England did to the colonists oh hey there we have a central army and more people and even though you’re so far away you listen to us or we will force You to at gunpoint
EarthRester t1_j1r8gbn wrote
Oh you poor victims! The very thought that you wouldn't be able to discriminate, or deny people bodily autonomy. Just because your ideology isn't the majority! How unfair! You're practically slaves! It's a holocaust of hicks and trash! /s
Get bent.
actuallyaustin6 t1_j1r8ny8 wrote
That’s because there are more Americans in urban areas than in rural areas. 🤷🏻♂️
Advanced-Guard-4468 t1_j1rbk4y wrote
What does that comment even have to do with the discussion?
EarthRester t1_j1rgdwm wrote
Are you asking what population density has to do with a discussion about Democracy, and the discrepancy between rural and urban areas in regards to....population density?
tyrael459 t1_j1rdrbb wrote
It very well will be decided by the courts, and I welcome it.
Pennsylvanians voted for more democrat state reps than republicans for our next congress, period. Republicans shouldn’t use their current majority to subvert our will.
I don’t know you can morally and logically debate that.
PatientNice t1_j1rg69v wrote
This is not true. The Republicans are a minority government. Millions more people vote Democrat yet the Republicans have it set up that Democrat voters get less representation for all those extra votes. Read up on it.
Advanced-Guard-4468 t1_j1rhive wrote
Thats pretty much what I wrote.
PatientNice t1_j1rq92t wrote
I am so glad to be on the same page with at least one other person! 👍👍
Kingzer15 t1_j1r9vrc wrote
- failed to carry the increasing politically indoctrinated rural parts
Advanced-Guard-4468 t1_j1rbcn8 wrote
The same could be said for the urban areas.
LittleLight85 t1_j1rojb1 wrote
The Dems won state elections because that can’t be gerrymandered.
RoyOfCon t1_j1r33e0 wrote
I personally found it helpful.
RipTide275 t1_j1qxil9 wrote
If people don’t want to understand what’s going on they can just not read the article.
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RipTide275 t1_j1rb5u0 wrote
I skimmed it, what I got out of skimming the article is there is a procedural clusterfuck in Harrisburg because of some unusual situations like electing a dead guy. Both parties will claim the other are cheating scum. The issues will be decided in court, then appealed by the loser. The losing side will claim the courts were politically biased.
BluCurry8 t1_j1rdtn7 wrote
Well that is a lazy response to even more dirty tricks by republicans. What keeps people voting for these liars and cheats is beyond me.
torcsandantlers t1_j1rfnmj wrote
Just because you had problems with the big words doesn't mean it's a bad article.
8Draw t1_j1rn7os wrote
Peak gqp projection
MaverickTopGun t1_j1rfx9i wrote
Lol are you upset there were no Ben Garrison comics to explain it to you?
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