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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • No, because while racial gerrymandering is illegal because race is a protected class, political gerrymandering is not because political affiliation is not a protected class.

    More specifically: staunchly Republican supporting areas tends to lean heavily white, while staunchly Democratic supporting areas tend to be much more cosmopolitan and racially heterogeneous. This had pretty obvious implications on the legal viability of gerrymandering towards the right in our one-dimensional political system - assuming, of course, anyone actually gives a shit about court orders and precedent, which the current regime (and I lump the Texas state government in with them) kinda doesn’t, so who fucking knows.






  • As a city person:

    It’s not that I care about the personal impact that it has on me. It doesn’t affect me at all, to be blunt.

    It may in fact be true that there are areas where there was nothing other than a DG (the company was founded in 1939, so it’s been around for a while), but in terms of the last few decades, it’s absolutely true that they’re undercutting an absolute shitload of local mom + pop general stores and driving them out of business, then exploiting their new captive audience and charging them more per unit mass/volume on everything. It’s literally their business model. That business model is predatory.

    Anyways, if that’s not something that you can understand or admit, I don’t think any explanation from a random “city person” on the internet is going to convince you.