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I found the article.... I think the author was talking about the most basic kinds of empathy. I'm sure you weren't a nasty little shit, just unconcerned/unaware with consequences. https://www.washingtonpost....

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By the way, I've been using this image in my various groupchats and it never fails to endlessly amuse me. I can't speak for the others in my groupchats, who seem more mystified than anything else.

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The amount of that in this state (NY) is remarkable, mostly when it comes to state assembly and senate districts. It's called the "incumbent protection plan" by the more cynical of us ... i.e.; everyone in the state.

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We're not going to get a state budget with that plaid-shirted billionaire faux populist still in office. But he and his rich prick friends don't need social services, so they don't care too much how badly they fuck over everyone else. Even though the state is losing population every year.

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It took me a long time to understand what gerrymandering was. We don't have that here.

I mean, here's what an electoral district looks like here : https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

And I thought they looked weird. (I'm in district n°5)

Any redistricting has to be ratified by the congress and controlled by I dont know how many councils and comittees first.

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Men Getting Out The Way would be a nice change.

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Here, Justices Alito, Roberts and Kennedy pulled a MGOTW. They decided that the plaintiffs had to prove that North Carolina could not have come up with those maps without relying on race.

"Hey, it might have been Professor Plum with census data in a smoke filled room, or it might have been Colonel Mustard with a dartboard at a local tavern. Do you have the right Clue cards to tell the difference?"-- Samuel Alito, letting an analogy slip away from him again...

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Except for the goodwill of the customer. But of course, that's not worth much.

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In my opinion, the reason Clarence Thomas agreed with The majority is that He is constitutionally (no pun intended) incapable of agreeing with anything that uses race as a justification. And in this case, the defendants claimed they were using race to guarantee some black representation because of the Voting Rights Act. Even though, as usual, the GOP legislature's reasoning was a bunch of crap.

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I tend to go with "fuckface" for the gov. If I could put Rauner in a giant burlap bag with the entire General Assembly and drown them all in Lake Michigan preparatory to making a fresh start, I would do so ... with votes!

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I'm guessing that France, like Canada, doesn't get the political party in power to draw the districts.

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Or better yet; shift to proportional representation. The party which gets 55% of the vote gets 55% of the seats in the state. Simples.

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Back when I worked at an upstate paper, one party or the other, can't remember which, drew a district across the middle of New York that bore a startling resemblance to a flying turkey, the name by which it then became known.

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Well played.

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You need to have an independent body draw the districts, the way we do Up Here. None of this 'we won the district, let's make sure we keep it' shit.

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i rather this idiot never comes never comes back. and the person was a fucking idiot. i am sitting behind a desk with a HUGE BIGLY SIGN that reads INFORMATION/CIRCULATION in BIGLY LETTERS.

and the person asked do you work here?

sorry but putting .50 cent or less on your library card via debit is not worth anything, goodwill or not. it is absolutely ridiculous.

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