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Bluetus

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2. It has nothing to do with public pressure

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 12:09 AM

Thursday

It has everything to do with calculus.

These are the same MFers who passed laws letting the state legislature take over the Atlanta prosecuror's office. These are the same MFers who passed all the leading edge voter disenfranchisement laws, putting them at the forefront of 21st century Jim Crow.

There is one and only one reason they aren't going further with their gerrymanders. And that is because they are afraid. You can only gerrymander so much. And when you get to that point, you put "safe" districts into play. In a different election cycle they would crank up the redistricting with no conscience at all. But none of them wants to be the one who pushed for the "Great Gerrymander of 2026 that LOST seats".

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Georgia to not gerrymander more: [View all] applegrove Wednesday OP

I think they realized that by gerrymandering they would make the Conservative vote more walkingman Wednesday #1

Exactly the case. These people did not suddenly get a case of Democracy. Bluetus Thursday #3

It has nothing to do with public pressure Bluetus Thursday #2

As least they're not going back to the early 1960s DFW Thursday #4