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Tell that to Ukraine.

I have become desensitized

Weird that hearing about fascism has left you incapable of identifying fascists. I never see your type have this problem with Muslims, Feminists, or Tankies.

That sounds amazing.

It sounds arbitrary and heavily weighted to favor the smaller cantons. Same problem we have with the US Senate and the filibuster. Representatives for a meager 30M voters can obstruct policy championed by the other 300M

Listen, I’m sure there’s a very good reason why we have radically different policies towards Afghani Muslims and Uyghur Muslims, despite the fact they share a border and a litany of cultural practices.

I’d need to know more about the tool

Well, there shouldn’t be districts anyway.

Hard truths

mapping software that can plan redistricting in a fair way

I mean, fairness is heavily predicated on your end goals. Even then, while I find the software fascinating and I’m glad it exists, I don’t see a huge strategic benefit in people wishcasting districts their states won’t let them have.

The other big lead-bury on this headline is the degree to which the courts have been wrangling over district maps for decades. This map is just the latest selected to rebalance Alabama and there’s little reason to believe it will stick

They switched because Google has more security leaks than a sieve, even accounting for their own hacks

I’m here telling you that if you want to save lives, don’t capitulate to the country killing everyone

That hasn’t proven out over the last 3 years. The death toll in Ukraine has significantly outrun every other Russian conflict since WW2.

As any child knows

When you think like a child, you get the results to match

It makes the headline descriptive, even relative to the content of the piece.

DiDonato’s success underscores how the wide availability of redistricting data and mapping software has transformed mapmaking from something once reserved for supercomputers and backrooms to an activity that anyone can participate in.

He did it at 2am and in his underpants, though, so the output is totally different than if he’d been wearing a three piece suit and compiling it during normal business hours.

A teenager algorithm

Remember that they were all elected

Coke or Pepsi. Choose your plutocrat

There are a lot of people who have sacrificed their lives to defend their homes from invaders.

That’s not some kind of virtue. Make the other fucker die for theirs, etc.

But once you’re dead, it’s not your land anymore. Telling tens of thousands of additional Ukrainians to die so the state can auction off a dead guy’s property to Jared Kushner’s holding company is fucked.

Don’t bother replying unless you want to keep showboating for others.

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American voters are stupid

Democracy is when you have two options, a wrong candidate and a right candidate. And the elections process simply an IQ test

Congress is full of these fuckers. I don’t see why the presidency is special

Giving a country with a track record of violating treaties as long as Russia’s

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post–Cold War Stalemate

The title of the book, Not One Inch, refers to James Baker’s famous statement to Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would expand “not an inch” to the east.

A good book and worth a read, if you’re genuinely curious at the history leading to the current crisis.

But it’s a hard read for anyone who believes history started in 2014

both look fine, I don’t care enough to vote

Voter suppression in the United States

Past that, it is very weird to insist a less-than-perfect turnout in a Blue States was a vote for Trump. And God help you if you had the nerve to vote third party. This was somehow a vote for both Trump and Harris, through the eyes of the opposition parties.

Harris shed over 10M votes relative to Biden, and Democrats still don’t want to ask why. It’s always a betrayal of the party by the voters. Politicians never seen to have any duty to the people.

The Cheeto will be buried by the trump/Epstein files soon enough